This is an exhibition of paintings, drawings and renderings of Chicana muralist Judith Baca’s public artwork. This is one of her major retrospectives of and details the intricacies of creating monumental public works, while maintaining a private practice. The exhibit included well known ‘private works,’ personal pieces confronting identity and social issues: photographs and a…
Press conference today at the Great Wall of Los Angeles: The Longest Mural in the World The Great Wall of Los Angeles is getting a face-lift. After many years, the mural has suffered extensive damage due to sun exposure and lack of restoration funds. Repair and repainting of the largest monument to interracial harmony…
The Save LA Murals Presentation An Audio Slideshow by Prof. Judith F. Baca – Presented to the City of Los Angeles Arts Commission on April 2nd 2009
BY GARY WALKER The mural community received what many feel was a bittersweet victory on February 19th, when the Los Angeles Planning Commission voted to view murals and signs as separate objects, a position that artists have been arguing for nearly a decade. But their hopes that these artistic expressions would be incorporated into a…
The art department of GCSU invited Judy Baca to hold a day-long workshop for Advanced Painting Students on March 5, 2009 to learn the techniques, practice and theory that she has cultivated over her 30+ years as an artist and teaches her UCLA class, Beyond the Mexican Mural. Though it would be impossible for a…
Professor Judy Baca’s “Beyond the Mexican Mural” includes collaborative project with sixth grade class By Samantha Schaefer Wednesday, March 4, 2009 To Alba Chacon, murals are a way to send a unifying message to a community in need, but as a public health student with no artistic experience, she said she felt nervous about…
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