On February 4, 2015, the UCLA Daily Bruin published the article,”Beyond Mexican Mural: Scenes of LA” featuring a video of my Beyond the Mexican Mural students painting our mural at the UCLA@SPARC Digital Mural Lab in Venice, CA. This mural … Read More
UCLA@SPARC: today, students in Professor Judy Baca’s Chicana/o Studies course, Beyond the Mexican Mural, are engaging in a mural production at SPARC… entitled, “LA Tropical”, the production offers students insight on how to facilitate collaborative community projects. Based on student … Read More
What is on my mind this morning is the passing of Esther Martinez Villacana. I will always remember her as one of my beloved Great Wall Kids. A beautiful loving girl who grew into a lovely woman and mother. Born … Read More
Utilizing the UCLA/SPARC César Chávez Digital Mural Lab, Judy and these Beyond the Mexican Mural students are exploring muralism as a political act of community education, development and empowerment. Beginning with the work of Los Tres Grandes of Mexico, a … Read More
What does citizenship mean to you? Judy recently answered this question in an interview with The Los Angeles Times. To hear her answer, click on the link below: Judy Baca’s Interview on Citizenship with The Los Angeles Times, December 2014
Today, Judy Baca had a special guest stop by the UCLA/SPARC César Chávez Digital Mural Lab. 4th grader Sinead O’Callahan of Will Rogers Learning Community in Santa Monica came with her mother Sue to interview Judy for her school project as … Read More
Judy Baca visits the team working on the Canadian Panel of the World Wall, entitled: The Inuit Sent Us a Canary, and finds lots of progress made. The panel strives to address issues around climate change, as well as teach … Read More
Your Donation will enable us to continue our work in 2014! We stand proud of our accomplishments in 2013 and remain true to our mission and goals for the coming year: * Producing the next Phases of our signature … Read More
On Friday, August 1st, The Great Wall of Los Angeles received a much needed bubble bath for the first time in 3 years! Small spider webs, dirt, and debris were scrubbed and power-washed away. Councilmen Krekorian of District 2 stopped … Read More
Join a free roundtable conversation to discuss the impact of mural painting on Los Angeles and Teotihuacan. Organized in conjunction with the exhibition The Painted City: Art from Teotihuacan, the discussion addresses mural painting as an inherently political medium and … Read More