JUDY BACA

JUDY BACA

• Job- professor, artist, visual artist
• Influence- Best known as the director of
• The mural project, The great wall of
• Los angeles

"By telling their stories we are giving voice to the voiceless and visualizing the whole American story while creating sites of public memory." this means: when an artist makes artwork that describes someones true story, people want to help.

CHILDHOOD

• Place of birth- Huntington Park, California
• Date of birth- September 20, 1946

EVENTS

• She taught art at a school for
• Over 28 years. Her grandmother was a
• Herbal healer and practiced curanderismo
• which profoundly influenced her sense of indigenous Chicano culture.

STRENGTHS

• Judy's strengths are in her artwork
• She helped her community when
• She helped direct the great wall

OBSTACLES

• It took a long time for her build
• The great wall of Los Angeles. She
• Interviewed many many people about
• The lives, family, family histories, and ancestry

Accomplishments

• 1988-National Association of Art Educator's award for Educator 
• of the year
• 2012 - University of California Studies Consortium Award
• 2012 - Mario F. Vasquez, Cinco de Mayo Leadership Award,

accomplishments

• 2009 - Escuela Tlatelolco Cenro des Estudios's Champion
• of Change Award
• 1998 - Women's Caucus for Art's Influential Woman Artist Award
• 2011 - Art Tables 30th Anniversary Artist Honors

fun facts

• Baca is at the top of a distinguished list of artist creators
• taught art in the UC system for over 28 years
• Baca’s public arts initiatives reflect the lives and concerns of
• populations that have been historically disenfranchised

impact

• The Great Wall of Los Angeles is one of Los Angeles’ true cultural landmarks and
• of the country’s most respected and largest monuments to inter-racial harmony.