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Painting in the River of Angels
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Judy Baca
Artist and CEO & Artistic Director
Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC)
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 2, 2023
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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Social and Public Art Resource Center
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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