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The Great Wall of Los Angeles
The Great Wall of Los Angeles © Judith
Baca.
The City Project and SPARC (Social
and Public Art Resources Center) are bringing people together through
parks, public art, and education. We are reviving the forgotten
history of Los Angeles through the Los
Angeles River, the Great Wall of Los Angeles, the state parks
in the Cornfield,
Taylor Yard and
the Heritage
Parkscape.
The Los Angeles River serves as a metaphor for the collective memory
that unites land water, air, and people.
The Great Wall of Los Angeles is one of Los Angeles's great cultural
landmarks and one of the country's most respected monuments to
inter-racial harmony. The Great Wall is a landmark pictorial representation
of the history of people of color and other ethnic groups in California
from prehistoric times to the 1950's, conceived by SPARC's artistic
director and founder Judith F. Baca. Begun in 1974 and completed
over five summers, the Great Wall employed over 400 youth and their
families from diverse social and economic backgrounds working with
artists, oral historians, ethnologists, scholars, and hundreds
of community members.
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