Judy Baca
(USA, 1946)
Judith Francisca Baca, is a native to Los Angeles who is a visual artist, an arts activist, community leader, and a professor of visual art. Baca’s work is created in such a way that emphasizes teaching and community, as is often seen with her murals. She has established numerous important programs including the City of Los Angeles Mural Program and the Social and Public Art Resource Center. Her art centers around subjects of the disenfranchised and oppressed - including women, the working poor, youth, the LGBT community and immigrants. She continually advocates for public art to be shared by all.
Baca runs the UCLA@SPARC Digital Mural Lab, where students work with historians and community members to design public art projects. Baca received a 2003 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and was named a 2015 USA Rockefeller Fellow, among other honors. Her work is in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; and Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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