Judy Baca
Judith Francisca Baca is an American artist, activist, and professor of Chicano studies, world arts, and cultures based at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the co-founder and artistic director of the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in Venice, California. Baca is the director of the mural project that created the Great Wall of Los Angeles, which was the largest known communal mural project in the world as of 2018.
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Background
- Born in
- Los Angeles
- Educated at
- California State University, NorthridgeBishop Alemany High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award
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1946
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