JUDITH FRANCISCA BACA
Biographical Information
Baca is a native of southern California. She was hired by the Cultural Affairs Division of the City of Los Angeles as a resident fine artist in East Los Angeles in 1969, after graduating from California State University, Northridge. Shortly thereafter she began bringing rival gang members together to paint murals, a successful project that became the model for other local, youth-based community murals' programs. In 1974 she helped organize and became director of the Citywide Mural Project. Two years later Baca, Christina Schlesinger, and Donna Deitch co-founded the Social and Public Art Resource Center, where she continues as the organization's creative director. In an effort to spread her concept of peace and understanding between cultures, in 1990 she began the World Wall, a series of portable murals which so far has traveled to the former Soviet Union, Finland, Washington, D.C., and Santa Barbara. In each country the exhibit visits, a local artist is selected to add a panel with his or her Vision of a Future Without Fear.
Mural Credits
The Great Wall of Los Angeles (Photos)
History of Highland Park (Photos)
History of the Ahmanson
History of the Mark Taper Forum
Hitting the Wall
Our Victories, Our Future
Pieces of Stardust
The Street Speaks (photo)
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