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January 20, 2022 by Philip Kennicott LOS ANGELES — When Judy Baca and a team of 80 kids began painting “The History of California” in 1976, almost no one considered the 1,000-foot-long mural project a monument. Since then, the painting has grown to more than 2,750 feet, and is known as the Great Wall of Los Angeles….
Excerpt of article By DAVID CRANE on Los Angeles Daily News. Read the full article here. Walking with a cane due to a recent knee replacement, Judy Baca entered the Resnick Pavilion at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art wearing paint-splattered white overalls and colorful Vans sneakers — ready to work on the latest installment of the…
By Jori Finkel | 1 March 2024 A feminist who muscled her way into the Mexican muralist tradition, Judy Baca tends to work outside of museum spaces. She created the celebrated mural known as The Great Wall of Los Angeles on site at the Tujunga Wash, a tributary of the Los Angeles River in North Hollywood, in the 1970s…
Los Angeles is Fashioning a “Tattoo on the Scar” Where Its River Once RanGrantmaking areaArts and CultureAuthorAnthony BalasPhotographyEmily Shur for Mellon Foundation Judy Baca co-founded the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), and starting in 1974, over five summers, employed 35 artists and over 400 socially and economically diverse youth and their families to…