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National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu visits The Great Wall of Los Angeles
Tuesday, September 22, 2015 L-R: SPARC Team: Elaine Raif, Marietta Bernstorff, Judy Baca, Debra J.T. Padilla, NEA Chairman Jane Chu, California Arts Council Director Craig Watson, National Council on the Arts Member Dr. Maria Rosario-Jackson, SPARC Team: Carlos Rogel and Kaelyn Rodriguez. PRESS RELEASE: http://arts.gov/news/2015/national-endowment-arts-chairman-jane-chu-visit-los-angeles-california-september-22%E2%80%9323
Students bring mural to elementary school (from the Daily Bruin)
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…
Self-portraits by Beyond The Mexican Mural Winter 2014 Class
Check out the assignment in the class archives HERE
Judy Baca speaks at Sothebys
Judy Baca spoke at Sothebys on April 16 at the art panel discussion among art professionals and art institutions who facilitate and participate in artists’ projects that transcend traditional studio practice and often include performance art, public art and art in public spaces, political activism and engagement with the major social and environmental issues of…
Scape Martinez Piece Installed in San Jose Roosevelt Community Center
On December 13, 2008, the City of San Jose celebrated the grand opening of the renovated Roosevelt Community Center. The center commissioned artist Scape Martinez to create the majority of its interior and exterior artwork. Over the one and one-half years it took Martinez to complete the project, he was assisted by the UCLA SPARC…

Judith Baca, USA Rockefeller Fellow, Visual Arts
Los Angeles mural artist Judith Baca was named Tuesday as the first muralist to win a grant from United States Artists since the nonprofit group began giving the $50,000 awards in 2006. Baca was the only Southern California winner this year among 36 United States Artists prize recipients in the nine categories: architecture and design,…