Insitute for Diversity in the Arts Noon Lecture with Award Winning Muralist, Judith F. Baca

Ms Baca is Founder and Artistic Director of the Social and Public Art Resource, SPARC. She is also Senior Professor for the UCLA Cesar Chavez Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and the World Arts and Culture Department. Best known for her leadership at SPARC and for the Great Wall of Los Angeles, a landmark pictoral representation of the history of ethnic peoples of California from their origins in the 1950's, located in the Tujunga Wash drainage canal in the San Fernando Valley. She has spent the last 30 years as a visual artist adressing the social justice issues of ethnic neighborhoods and the working poor worldwide. Baca is a tenured Professor at UCLA where she has taught in the Dept. of World Art and Cultures as well as in the Cesar Chavez Center since 1980. she is a current Guggenheim recipient.