Today at SPARC


Calling all artists and makers! Vending opportunity Saturday, July 13th, 2-10 PM at the SPARC Mercado in conjunction with the Venice Art Crawl and the Mar Vista Music & Art Walk. Register today to sell your work at Mercado, an outdoor marketplace featuring artists and makers. Mercado takes place during the Get Around, a collaborative…
MacArthur Foundation Essay on UCLASPARC Digital Mural Lab
“Hitting the Wall” Update on Restoration of Judy Baca’s 1984 artwork on the Harbor Freeway As many of you know, the emblematic mural “Hitting the Wall” was egregiously whitewashed in 2019 without the consent of the artist and our founder, Judy Baca. The piece commemorated the first time female runners were allowed to compete in the…
About Our Interns [accordiongroup][accordion title=”Merissa Acosta”] [/accordion][accordion title=”Steven Rodriguez”] Growing up on the periphery of Los Angeles County public murals, monumental art and graffiti highlight my earliest memories of traveling in and out of the city. In high school a drive to produce publicly engaging artwork encouraged me to become self-learned in printing and stenciling…
“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. I know the world is bruised and…