A legacy that lives on the walls
In the hands of artist Judy Baca, the mural is a powerful teaching tool of L.A. history and student
Judy Baca, professor of Chicana and Chicano studies and world arts and cultures at UCLA, leads the Emancipation Project — a program that brings arts education to a LA USD school located five blocks from where Baca was born in Watts.
"Muralist Judy Baca is known worldwide for her community-building creative aesthetic. She’s revered locally in part for her epic and ongoing project, “The Great Wall of Los Angeles,” a series of richly illustrated murals that line a concrete section of the Tujunga Wash and tell the history of the city — her city — decade by decade.
But for Baca, there are many great walls, especially those watching over students attending the elementary school that bears her name.
The Judith F. Baca Arts Academy stands five blocks from where Baca was born in Watts — an area of Los Angeles where recent citywide arguments about gentrification don’t echo."— Jessica Wolf, July 6, 2016
Read the full article at the UCLA Newsroom website.