Judith baca biography painting

One of America’s leading visual artists Dr. Judith F. Baca has been creating public art for four decades. Powerful in size and subject matter, Baca’s murals bring art to where people live and work. In , Baca founded the City of Los Angeles’ first mural program, which produced over murals and employed thousands of local participants, and evolved into an arts organization known as the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC).

She continues to serve as SPARC’S artistic director and focuses her creative energy in the UCLA@SPARC Digital/ Mural Lab, employing digital technology to promote social justice and participatory public arts projects. She is an emeritus Professor of the University of California Los Angeles, where she was a senior professor in Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine and Chicana/o Studies and World Art and Cultures Departments from until

Beginning with the awareness that the land has memory, she creates art that is shaped by an interactive relation