Raising Community Consciousness with Public Art: Contrasting Projects by Judy Baca and Andrew Leicester

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As a result, the fool was a co-creator of Christine Schlesinger and the filmmakers Donnadic Social Public Art Resource Center, both an artist and an educator. The mission of the organization is to fund community public art projects in the Los Angeles area. The name suggested by Schlesinger is from an article by Mao Zedong, "A spark can start a fire on the prairie". In short, it will be a mural, or an idiot will like to call them "a place of public memory." "I see this metaphor: hundreds of miles of concrete pipes are land wounds," she wrote. . "I remembered the scars I saw in a young man in Los Angeles, my friend and Fernando's mentee suffered so much injury in the gang war in East Los Angeles, the ugly traces are powerfully beautiful It changes to.

This is a mural called Los Angeles Great Wall. It was arranged by Judith Baka in 1976 with the help of more than 400 artists and community youth organized by the Center for Social and Public Art Resources (SPARC). Judith Baka used a police station abandoned to coordinate the production of mural paintings and other projects. With the help of SPARC and other artists, Judith Baca was able to complete mural paintings in the six summers. It is 13 feet tall and 2,754 feet long, which is equivalent to about 6 city blocks in Los Angeles. This mural painting the history of Los Angeles has many panels. Look at history from the perspective of women and ethnic minorities with a stupid vision