The Social and Public Art Resource Center is a non-profit community arts center based in Venice, California. SPARC hosts exhibitions, sponsors workshops and murals, and lobbies for the preservation of
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Great Wall of Los Angeles
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The Great Wall of Los Angeles is a 1978 mural designed by Judith Baca and executed with the help of over 400 community youth and artists coordinated by the Social and Public Art Resource Center. The m
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…five artists' studios, a darkroom, and houses Baca's archives as well as those of Minna Agins. SPARC's first project was the monumental mural project The Great Wall of Los Angeles, which is one of the largest murals in the world. It depicts scenes from the history of California on the side of the Tujunga wash, and was created by…
The northern terminus of The Great Wall of Los Angeles at the intersection of Oxnard Street and Coldwater Canyon Avenue, December 2024
The southern terminus of the Great Wall features Prehistoric California, labelled as 20,000 BC, a Columbian mammoth getting trapped in the La Brea Tar Pits, and the earliest evidence of Chumash settlement, labelled as 1,000 AD