JUDITH BACA, ET AL:
THE GREAT WALL OF LOS ANGELES


Date
1976-83

Location
Tujunga Wash drainage canal
Coldwater Canyon Ave. between Burbank Blvd. and Oxnard St.
Van Nuys/North Hollywood border

Media Notes
The entire project was executed in five stages.

Description
A history of California from earliest pre-history through the 1960s.


all photos © Robin Dunitz

Date
1976

Media Notes
Supervising artists: Judith Baca, Charles Brown, Isabel Castro, Donna Deitch, Judithe Hernandez, Ulysses Jenkins, Luis Lopez, Kristina Lucas, Olga Muniz, Bernardo Muniz, Arnold Ramirez, Christina Schlesinger, Gary Tokumoto, Linda Eber. Plus 59 "mural makers."

Nine panels:
20,000 B.C. PRE-HISTORICAL CALIFORNIA
1000 A.D. EARLY CALIFORNIA
1522 SPANISH ARRIVAL
1822 MEXICAN RULE
1848 BANDAIDE
1868 SOJOURNERS
1880 FRONTIER CALIFORNIA
1890 LOS ANGELES MOUNTAINS TO THE SHORE
1900 IMMIGRANT CALIFORNIA.

Date
1978

Media Notes
Supervising artists: Diane Ferrari, Leo Jaurequi, Andrew Manning, Bea Plessner. Plus 34 "mural makers."

Four panels:
WILLIAM S. HART
TOMAS ALVA EDISON
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
WORLD WAR I DOUGHBOYS.
Date
1980

Media Notes
Artist Supervisors: Carlos Callejo, Yreina Cervantez, Jan Cook, Fernando Jaurequi Jr., Alfredo Lascano, Jane Van Loon, Nancy Perez, Bea Plessner, Julie Ruelas, Rodney Sakai.

Seven panels:
JAPANESE INTERNMENT
DUSTBOWL REFUGEES
350,000 MEXICAN-AMERICANS DEPORTED
UNSIGNED INDIAN TREATIES
STRIKES
CRASH AND DEPRESSION ILLUSION OF PROSPERITY




all photos © Robin Dunitz








Date
1981

Media Notes
Artist supervisors: Jan Cook, Teresa Chacon, Karen Guyot, Alfredo Lascano, Pat Millar, Bea Plessner, Julie Ruelas. Plus 32 "mural makers."

Nine panels:
JEWISH REFUGEES
LUISA MORENO
ZOOT SUIT RIOTS L.A. 1943
DAVID GONZALEZ PACOIMA CA.
DR. CHARLES DREW
WORLD WAR II
CALIFORNIA AQUEDUCT
JEWISH AMERICANS
442ND JAPANESE AMERICANS





















all photos © Robin Dunitz






Date
1983

Media Notes
Artist Supervisors: Eric Alcarez, Eva Cockcroft, Mary-Linn Hughes, Patssi Valdez, Matthew Wuerker. Plus 30 "mural makers."

all photos © Robin Dunitz
11 panels:
OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS BREAKING BARRIERS 1948-1964
ASIANS GAIN CITIZENSHIP AND PROSPERITY
INDIAN ASSIMILATION
JEWISH ARTS AND SCIENCES
THE ORIGINS OF GAY RIGHTS
FOREBEARERS OF CIVIL RIGHTS
THE BIRTH OF ROCK AND ROLL
DIVISION OF THE BARRIOS AND CHAVEZ RAVINE
THE RED SCARE OF MCCARTHYISM
DEVELOPMENT OF SUBURBIA
FAREWELL TO ROSIE THE RIVETER.






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