Multimedia Collection
Judy Baca
(A World of Art series)
VHS
30 minutes
NX504 .W641 1996 tape 8
Judy Baca has dedicated her career to "giving voice" to the marginalized communities of California, empowering people through art. Her most well-known and ambitious project is the Great Wall of Los Angeles, begun in 1976 and still in progress. Nearly 400 inner-city youths, including members of rival gangs, have worked on the Great Wall project, which is more than a mile long. Baca believes that the collaborative process and problem solving involved in making art - murals in particular - can be used as the basis for social change. This program shows Baca at work on two public art projects: a mural for the student center at the University of Southern California and a "re-peopling" of Fort Ord, the now-deserted military base that was used as a staging area during the Vietnam War.
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