Judy Baca is an acclaimed artist and muralist and founder of SPARC (The Social and Public Art Resource Center). She is perhaps best known for designing and painting, with the help of many assistants, a half mile long mural … Read More
A Monuments Project grant will enable artist Judith F. Baca and her community collaborators to add chapters to the “Great Wall of Los Angeles.” In this guest essay, Baca describes the impetus behind the decades-long project. Bienvenidos a El Pueblo … Read More
February 9, 2021 – Today The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced five new projects to be funded through its monuments initiative. Launched in October 2020, the Monuments Project is the Foundation’s groundbreaking grantmaking effort to reimagine and transform commemorative spaces to … Read More
Monterey Museum of Art Presents The 3rd Annual Art of the State Symposium “Change = Action/Time: Generational Activism in Chicanx and Latinx Art” January 9, 2021 from 10 am – 5 pm PST Judy Baca Presentation starts at 2pm PST To Register … Read More
Judy had the honor of being the Grand Marshall for Mujeres de La Tierra‘s Día de Los Muertos Community Procession, last Tuesday, October 29th, 2019. The Procession began at the Cypress Park Branch Library and ended at the Los Angeles … Read More
Judy Baca as Pachuca is featured in an art exhibit traveling throughout Mexico from March 28 – June 2020. The exhibition travels, “In order to advance the visibility, understanding, and appreciation of Chicano and Latino art, Building Bridges in Time of … Read More
On View at CMA February 14, 2020 – May 17, 2020 “Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots of 1969, this long-awaited and groundbreaking survey features more than 200 works of art and related visual materials that explore the profound impact … Read More
Estampas Chicanas January 17‒May 5, 2019. “One of the great myths about such important social developments as the Chicano labor movement is that they are progressive on all fronts. However, many Chicana women, especially Chicana artists, have been excluded. This … Read More
Pop América, 1965‒1975 To feature Las Tres Marías (The Three Marias), 1976 from the Smithsonian. “In collaboration with the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the McNay presents Pop América, 1965–1975—the first exhibition with a hemispheric vision of Pop art. … Read More
The Hammer Museum says of Judy Baca and Anna Indych-Lopez, author of Judith F. Baca, “Artist Judy Baca is best known for The Great Wall of Los Angeles (1976–83), a mural that presents a multiracial history of California. The project—involving … Read More