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    • October 30

      Día de los Muertos 2022

      Date:  20th October 2022, Sunday Time: Doors open at 5.30pm, event starts at 6.00pm – 8.30pm Location: SPARC, 685 N. Venice Blvd., Venice, CA 90291.   SPARC will host its 20th annual Día de los Muertos celebration in collaboration with UCLA Professor Martha Ramirez-Oropeza and more than 100 students! Professor Ramirez-Oropeza will lead a traditional […]

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    • Friends @ MOLAA Present’s : Judy Baca: Memorias de Nuestra Tierra, a Retrospective

      Judy Baca: Memorias de Nuestra Tierra, a Retrospective Co-Curated by Guest Curator Alessandra Moctezuma and MOLAA Chief Curator Gabriela Urtiaga July 2021 – January 2022 Reservations Judy Baca: Memorias de Nuestra Tierra, a Retrospective is the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of the internationally renowned Chicana muralist, public intellectual and community activist, Judy Baca. Baca […]

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    • Friends @ MOCA Present Judith F. Baca: The World Wall

      Judith F. Baca: The World Wall On View Sept 11, 2022 @ The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA The World Wall  Celebrated Chicana muralist Judith F. Baca began her collaborative, portable mural The World Wall: A Vision of the Future Without Fear in 1990. An ambitious, utopian, and international project, The World Wall is rooted in the philosophy that in […]

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    • Why We Won’t Just Leave Exhibition Opening

      Join us for the virtual opening of Why We Won’t Just Leave: What Alaska is Telling the World About Climate Change on February 27th at 4:00 PM PST. This event will feature a special tour and talk by exhibition curator Lindsay Carron. Why We Won’t Just Leave features portraits, paintings, photography, stories, and video profiles […]

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    • Change = Action/Time: Generational Activism in Chicanx and Latinx Art

      The Monterey Museum of Art presents the 3rd Annual Art of the State Symposium. ​​​​​​​Join Latinx and Chicanx artists and scholars including MacArther Fellow Amalia Mesa-Bains, renowned collector Armando Duran, and internationally recognized Chicana artist Judith Baca Ph.D. ​​​​​​​and others for personal accounts, live Q & A, and a live panel discussion with presenters, moderated […]

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    • The Art of Transforming Loss

      Join us for a conversation with renowned artists, Judith F. Baca and Amalia Mesa-Bains, as they discuss the experience of processing loss through artistic practices that are grounded in cultural traditions. In connection with the process of building altars during Día de los Muertos, this talk considers the relationship between artmaking, healing, and memory. Artist […]

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