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Judith Baca : Professor, Chicano Studies
Contact information: 7369 Bunche, (310) 822-9560, judybaca@ucla.edu
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Judith Francisca Baca, native Angeleno, is a visual artist, an arts activist, a community leader and a professor of visual art.
As a visual artist, Judith Baca is best known for her large-scale public murals. Her art involves extensive community organizing and participation, addressing multi-cultural audiences. In the internationally known GREAT WALL OF LOS ANGELES mural in the Tujunga Wash Flood Control Channel, Baca designed a work which incorporated 40 ethnic scholars, 450 multi-cultural neighborhood youth, 40 assisting artists and over 100 support staff to paint a half mile long mural on the ethnic history of California. Painted over five summers, this exciting work describes decade by decade the contributions and struggles of California's diverse peoples from prehistoric times to the 1950's. Unique among murals in its conceptual approach, the GREAT WALL also provided an educational program of training in inter-racial relations for the project's participants and for the people in the surrounding community. |
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Recently completed works include the Central American Resource and Education Center (CARECEN) , the Durango Latino Education Coalition , the Venice Boardwalk , the Denver International Airport , the University of Southern California, the Baldwin Park Metrolink station , international exhibition entitled “Art of the Other Mexico” and an interior mural for the Southern California Gas Company's new downtown Los Angeles headquarters. Baca continues to work on the WORLD WALL: A VISION OF THE FUTURE WITHOUT FEAR , seven 10 foot by 30 foot portable mural panels on canvas. This 210-foot mural in seven parts addresses contemporary issues of global importance; war, peace, cooperation, interdependence, and spiritual growth. As the WORLD WALL tours the world, additional panels by artists from different countries will be added to complete this visual tribute to the “Global Village.” Completed panels include artists' work from Finland, Russia, a joint effort from Palestine and Israel and Mexico; currently the Canadian artist team is completing their contribution to the traveling mural. |
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As an arts activist, Baca founded the first City of Los Angeles mural program in 1974, which produced over 250 murals and hired over 2,000 participants in its ten years of operation. In 1976 she founded the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in Venice, California, where she still serves as the Artistic Director. In 1988, at the request of Mayor Tom Bradley, she developed a new City of Los Angeles mural program, based on the successful model of the GREAT WALL OF LOS ANGELES . This mural program entitled the GREAT WALLS UNLIMITED: NEIGHBORHOOD PRIDE PROGRAM operates under contract with the Cultural Affairs Department and has produced over 105 murals in almost every ethnic community in Los Angeles, making it one of the country's most respected mural programs.
Judith F. Baca's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, published in numerous periodicals, journals, and books, and documented in several films. She has received awards and recognition for her work from community groups such as the California Community Foundation, the Liberty Hill Foundation, the AFL/CIO, the California State Assembly, the United States Senate and the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. Baca was the recipient of a 2001 Education Award from the National Hispanic Heritage Awards and in 2003 a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. She is a founding faculty member of the new California State University- Monterey Bay, where she helped to develop a Visual and Public Art Institute. After 13 years at UC Irvine in Studio Arts, she now serves a Senior Professor in the UCLA Cesar E. Chavez Department of Chicana & Chicano Studies and the UCLA World Arts and Cultures Department. To advance the field of muralism, in 1996 Baca created the UCLA/SPARC Cesar Chavez Digital/Mural Lab , a research, teaching and production facility based at SPARC.
Baca resides in Venice, California.
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Employment
University of California, Los Angeles
Full Professor V, Faculty Member, Cesar E. Chavez Center, 1996 - present
World Arts & Culture Department, 2002 - present
Vice-Chair, Cesar E. Chavez Center, 1996 - 1998
California State University, Monterey Bay
Full Professor, and one of 13 Founding/Planner Faculty Members, 1994-1996
Designed and provided oversight for conversion of Military Tank Buildings into mural studios.
Developed the Visual and Public Art Program currently implemented at CSUMB, 1994
University of California, Irvine
1981-1994 Professor Studio Arts Department
Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC)
Artistic Director, 1981-present
Artistic Director/Initiator of Neighborhood Pride Great Walls Unlimited Mural Program, 1988 – 2003
Model citywide program for integrating 95 artists and the community; responsible for the production of over 105 murals citywide.
Three Year Mural Training Program : Fipse Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education/ U.S.
Department of Education, 1984-1987 (Conducted with 5 art schools and universities at SPARC)
Muralist/Director “Great Wall of Los Angeles`” summers of 1976, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1/2 Mile long mural
Developed participatory public monument and public education project on ethnic history of the United States focusing on California, incorporating over 400 youth, 100 scholars, and 100 artist assistants.
Founder/Executive Director of SPARC, a leading Los Angeles community based arts organization since 1976
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Recent Awards and Achievements
Provincetown Residency: Gaea Foundation's Sea Change Residencies, August 2007
Provincetown, MA
UCLA Latino Alumni Association: Madrina Award, 2007
The Brian P. Copenhaver Award, Innovation in Teaching with Technology, May 2007
College of Letters and Science, UCLA
KCET “Women's History Month,” March 23, 2006
Los Angeles, CA. Awarded the 2006 Local Hero of the Year .
Stanford Diversity in the Arts Program, winter 2006.
This residency at Stanford Univ. will include a commission to produce a new mural for the Chicano Center on Campus.
McKoll Art Center Charlotte North Carolina Artist in Residence Fellowship Winter 2005
Selected through a national competition to participate in a residency, which will culminate in an exhibition at MAC.
Featured in May 24th issue of People Magazine, 2004
“Back to the Wall, Artist Judith F. Baca“
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2003
Fellowship Term, September 1, 2003 – June 30, 2004
Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College 2002
Distinguished scholars/artists reside on campus to convene with faculty and students.
Commission on the Status of Women, 2002
The County of Santa Clara's Commission on the Status of women award for Outstanding Female Role Model for 2002 is given each year to women who are making a positive difference in the quality of life for many.
Hispanic Heritage Awards, 2001
Educator of the Year Award recipient at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington , D.C.
Liberty Hill Foundation, 2001
Creative Vision Award recipient at annual Upton Sinclair Dinner
Awards and Achievements ( contd.)
California Community Foundation, 2001
Selected as one of 85 Unsung Heroes of nonprofit community and featured in the Foundation's annual report
Women's Museum, 2000
Honored in “Unforgettable Women” exhibition in museum in association with the Smithsonian Institute
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., 1998
Major artwork acquisition by museum
Harvard University, Boston MA 1998
Master Artist and Senior Scholar for the “Institute on the Role of the Arts & Civic Dialogue”
Women's Caucus for Art, 1998
Recipient of the Influential Woman Artist Award, awarded at Annual National Conference
Awarded Commissions ( Work in Progress)
2006 Robert F. Kennedy Memorial at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles CA .
2005 Monument to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., San Diego, CA.
2004 50th Anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott Digital Mural
Produced in 4 cities; To be installed at schools in Philadelphia , New York , Baltimore and Washington D.C.
2004 The Cesar Chavez Monument Plaza at San Jose State University
25ft Arch containing six digital murals, plaza with mosaic tiles, and six ‘metate' benches.
2003 Avenida Cesar Chavez Beautification Project. Located in the heart of East Los Angeles, this public art plan will creatively integrate with the revitalization project providing maximum visual beautification along the corridor on Cesar Chavez Avenue between Ford Boulevard and Mednik Avenue.
1986 ongoing “World Wall: A Vision of the Future Without Fear” Eight 10 ft.x 30 ft. portable mural panels on canvas exhibited at the Smithsonian and other locations in the United States, in Joensuu, Finland and Gorky Park, Moscow, in Russia. The theme of the piece explores the material and spiritual transformation of a society toward peace. A new panel is added by a native artist from each country to which the Wall travels. A new 10 ft. x 30 ft. panel was unveiled by an Israeli-Palestinian team at California State University Monterey Bay in April of 1998, and a panel by he Mexican team has recently been completed. Plans for a new panel is in progress, from Canada based team.
1976 ongoing “The Great Wall of Los Angeles” The World's longest mural at 13' x 2,400' depicts a multi-cultural history of California from prehistory through to the 1950's. This mural is still growing. The Great Wall is located in California's San Fernando Valley Tujunga Wash, a flood control channel built in the 1930's.
Awarded Commissions ( Completed Works )
2004 “Hitting the Wall: Women in the Marathon” (Restoration)
A mural sponsored by the Olympic Organizing Committee for the 1984 Olympics. Located at the 4 th Street off-ramp on the Harbor Freeway North. 20' x 100' acrylic on cast concrete.
2003 Central American Resource Center (CARECEN): “Migration of the Golden People” Digital Mural
37ft x 14ft digital mural on the migration of Central Americans to Los Angeles' Pico Union district located at CARECEN on Hoover and 7 th St. Created as one of the final Neighborhood Pride Murals in collaboration with SPARC and participants from the Central American community including youth, scholars, and their families.
2002 Durango Mural Project: “La Memoria De Nuestra Tierra”
Commissioned by the Latin Education Project for the City of Durango Fine Arts Center and currently being built over the Internet, this work with Southern Ute and Chicano Youth of Durango Colorado will be a new mural for the exterior of the city's art center. This work will be produced on enamel tiles for the exterior of the building.
2001 15 Digital Tile murals on the Venice Boardwalk
Sponsored by the City of Los Angeles – Lead artist for 15 podiums commissioned by the Venice Beach Ocean Front Walk Renovation Project. Designed and installed fence treatments along the 750 ft. expanse of Venice Boardwalk including 15 tile murals on the history of the region's murals. The public artwork is intended as a self-guided walking tour of existing and disappearing murals in Venice. Completed January, 2001.
2000 “La Memoria De Nuestra Tierra: Colorado” ( The Memory of Our Land)
10ft.x 55ft. digital mural on aluminum substrate. Situated in Denver InternationalAirport's central terminal. “The Memory of Our Land” explores Chicano/Mexicano history of the southwest, in particular the passage through El Paso, the “Ellis Island” of the Southwest, in the 1919-23 migration north to Colorado.
2007 Judith Baca's CV >
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Courses
Chicano Studies 197A, " Special Topics in Chicana and Chicano Studies Chicano 197A: Chicana Art and Artists. " ( Winter 2002 )
Chicano Studies 197F, " Special Topics in Chicana and Chicano Studies Chicano 197F, seminar 1: Community-Based Art Practice." ( Spring 2000 )
Chicano Studies 197F-2, " Special Topics in Chicana and Chicano Studies: Chicana Art and Artists." ( Spring 2000 )
Chicano Studies M166, "Beyond the Mexican Mural: Muralism and Community Development." ( Fall 1998 )
Chicano Studies M167, " Whose Monument Where: Course on Public Art."(Fall 1998 )
Chicano Studies M175," Chicano Art and Artists." (Fall 2008)
Chicano Studies M185, " Whose Monument Where: Course on Public Art." (Fall 2008, Winter 2005 )
Chicano Studies M186A, " Beyond the Mexican Mural: Beginning Muralism and Community Development." ( Fall 2009, Fall 2000, Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007 )
Chicano Studies M186AL, Beyond the Mexican Mural: Beginning Muralism and Community Laboratory." ( Fall 2009, Fall 2000, Fall 2002, Fall 2005, Fall 2006, Fall 2007 )
Chicano Studies M186B, " Beyond the Mexican Mural: Intermediate Muralism and Community Development." (Winter 2009 , Winter 2008, Winter 1999, Winter 2001, Winter 2003, Winter 2007, Winter 2008 )
Chicano Studies M186BL, " Beyond the Mexican Mural: Intermediate Muralism and Community Laboratory." (Winter 2009 , Winter 2008, Winter 2001, Winter 2003, Winter 2007, Winter 2008 )
Chicano Studies M186C, " Beyond the Mexican Mural: Advanced Muralism and Community Development." ( Spring 2001)
Chicano Studies M188, " Whose Monument Where: Course on Public Art." ( Winter 2002 )
Chicano Studies 191-3, " Great Wall Mural Restoration" ( Fall 2009)
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