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American artist and academic (born )

Judith Francisca Baca (born September 20, ) is an American artist, activist, and professor of Chicano studies, world arts, and cultures based at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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She is the co-founder and artistic director of the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) in Venice, California.^[1] Baca is the director of the mural project that created the Great Wall of Los Angeles, which was the largest known communal mural project in the world as of ^[2][3]

Biography

Early life

Baca was born in Watts, Los Angeles on September 20, , to Mexican American parents.

Her military father never knew of her existence and moved back to the east coast after her birth.^[4] In her early life in Watts, she was raised in a predominately Black and Latino area. She lived in an all-female household composed of her mother, her aunts Rita and Delia, and her grandmother Francisca.^[5]&