London Guardian: Los Angeles Muralists Look Beyond the Wall Brick
Baca is among the 12 individuals and organisations receiving the US federal government’s top honour for artists and art patrons this year. Judith Baca, the Chicana artist, educator and arts administrator who may be best known for her sprawling community mural project The Great Wall of Los Angeles—begun in the 1970s, still in process and, at…
Judy Baca says: “It’s the moment in the city history in which it decides what kind of place it is. It’s nothing less than that. If you don’t believe in the common spaces and places where we can put public memory, and you sell us everything we don’t need in every square inch of eye…