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Encyclopedia > Judy Baca

Judith Francisca Baca (born September 20, 1946) is an American artist, activist, and University of California, Los Angeles professor of fine arts. She is the founder and executive director of the Venice, California-based Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), a community arts center, and is best known as the director of the mural project that created the largest mural in the world, the Great Wall of Los Angeles. September 20 is the 263rd day of the year (264th in leap years). ... Look up artist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Activism, in a general sense, can be described as intentional action to bring about social or political change. ... The University of California, Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA, is a public, coeducational university located in the residential area of Westwood within the city of Los Angeles. ... A professor giving a lecture The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ... The Cornfield is an oil on canvas painting by John Constable in 1826 Fine art refers to arts that are concerned with beauty or which appealed to taste (SOED 1991). ... Venice Beach and Boardwalk Venice, is a district in west Los Angeles, California. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... Community art, also known as Dialogical Art or Community-based Art, is an art form based in a community setting. ... Salle des illustres, ceiling painting, by Jean André Rixens. ... The Great Wall of Los Angeles is a famous mural designed by Judith Baca. ...


Baca was born in East Los Angeles, California to Mexican American parents. She was raised in an all-female home. Her grandmother was an herbal healer, which profoundly influenced her sense of indigenous Chicano culture. Baca was present at the 1970 Chicano Moratorium, an anti-war action of the Chicano Movement. She earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in art from California State University, Northridge (CSUN). In 1974, she founded Los Angeles's first mural program, which produced over 400 murals. In 1976, she founded SPARC. In 1977, she attended a workshop at the Taller Siqueiros in Cuernavaca, Mexico, to learn muralism techniques. Baca began a professorship at University of California, Irvine in 1980. In 1988, Mayor of Los Angeles Tom Bradley commissioned her to create the Neighborhood Pride Program, a citywide project to paint murals. The project employed over 1,000 at-risk youth and is responsible for over 80 murals throughout the city. In 1993, she co-founded UCLA's Cesar E. Chavez Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, an institution for which she serves as vice chair. In 1998, Baca organized a travelling mural dedicated to world peace called The World Wall: A Vision of the Future without Fear. Welcome sign on Atlantic Boulevard East Los Angeles (often shortened to East L.A.) is an unincorporated area located in Los Angeles County, California, United States that is bounded by the city of Los Angeles to the west and north, the cities of Montebello and Monterey Park to the east... The ethnonym Mexican-American describes United States citizens of Mexican ancestry (14 million in 2003) and Mexican citizens who reside in the US (10 million in 2003). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Aboriginal peoples in Canada, First Nations and Native Americans in the United States (Discuss) A Hupa man, 1923 The term indigenous peoples of the Americas encompasses the inhabitants of the Americas before the arrival of the first European... Chicano is a cultural identity used primarily by people of Mexican descent in the United States. ... The Chicano Moratorium, formally known as the National Chicano Moratorium Committee, was a movement of Chicano anti-war activists that built a broad-based but fragile coalition of Mexican-American groups to organize opposition to the Vietnam War. ... Anti war protest in Melbourne, Australia, 2003 Anti_war is a name that is widely adopted by any social movement or person that seeks to end or oppose a future or current war. ... WikiProject Tasks This article has been identified by the members of WikiProject Mexican-Americans/Chicanos as the subject of a group collaboration, currently underway, with the goal of elevating it to Featured Article status. ... California State University, Northridge (also known as CSUN, Cal State Northridge, or C-Sun) is a public university in the San Fernando Valley, within the city limits of Los Angeles, California, USA. Part of the California State University System, CSUN was founded in 1958 as San Fernando Valley State College. ... Cuernavaca is the capital city of the state of Morelos in Mexico. ... The University of California, Irvine is a public university situated in suburban Irvine, California. ... This is a list of mayors of Los Angeles, California. ... Mayor Tom Bradley of Los Angeles, 1973-1993 Thomas (Tom) Bradley (December 29, 1917 – September 29, 1998) was the mayor of Los Angeles, California from 1973 to 1993 (five terms) and the first African American mayor of that city. ... World peace is a future ideal of freedom, peace and happiness among and within all nations. ...


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References

  • Fernandez, Mayra. Judy Baca, artist. Cleveland: Modern Curriculum Press, 1994. ISBN 0813652766.
  • Hammond, Harmony. Lesbian art in America: a contemporary history. New York: Rizzoli, 2000. ISBN 0847822486.
  • Olmstead, Mary. Judy Baca. Chicago: Raintree, 2005. ISBN 1410909158.
  • Telgen, Diane, and Jim Kamp, editors. Latinas! : women of achievement. Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1996. ISBN 0787608831.
  • Las Mujeres: Mexican American/Chicana women: photographs and biographies of seventeen women from the Spanish colonial period to the present. Windsor: National Women’s History Project, 1995. ISBN 0938625349.

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