New mural captures campus history and UCLA’s future
Judy Baca is a UCLA professor emeritus of Chicana and Chicano and Central American studies and of World Arts and Cultures. Her new work “La Memoria de la Tierra: UCLA.” was unveiled on the north side of Ackerman Union on UCLA's campus.
"The ask was bold and befitting a Bruin like professor and artist Judith Baca: depict the history, present and future of UCLA and the land where it resides, in a mural.
In a special evening ceremony on Friday, April 1, several hundred people gathered to celebrate the culmination of nearly three years of work, as Baca unveiled “La Memoria de la Tierra: UCLA.” The nearly 80-foot mural is on the north side of Ackerman Union as part of the Wescom Student Terrace.
The mural, which translates into English as “The Memory of Earth: UCLA,” is made up of three 26-foot-long glass panels. The left panel portrays Westwood — long before UCLA — with a shimmering light-blue outline of Royce Hall where it sits today. In the center, a circle of dozens of people including faculty, alumni, civil rights and social justice leaders whom Baca called her heroes and said represent the diverse and lesser-known history of campus and the land." — Mike Fricano, April 4, 2022
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