The Great Wall of Los Angeles

Los Angeles is Fashioning a “Tattoo on the Scar” Where Its River Once Ran

Grantmaking areaArts and Culture
AuthorAnthony Balas
PhotographyEmily Shur for Mellon Foundation
DateNovember 02, 2023
Multiple pieces of paper containing pencil sketches on a wooden table, with the artist Judy Baca's outstretched pointer finger touching one of them
Judy Baca co-founded the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), and starting in 1974, over five summers, employed 35 artists and over 400 socially and economically diverse youth and their families to bring the vision to life.

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The Great Wall of Los Angeles

SPARC received a $5,000,000 grant in 2021 to support the preservation, expansion, and activation of The Great Wall of Los Angeles.

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