Judith F. Baca: Mar. 28 – THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED Empowering Women Through Creative Industries Lecture Series
March 1, 2017
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED
Join us on Tuesday, March 28, 2017, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m. in Argyros Forum, 209B to hear artist, educator and activist Judith F. Baca as part of the
Empowering Women Through the Creative Industries Series
.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Judith F. Baca is a painter and muralist, monument builder, and scholar who have been teaching art in the UC system since 1984. She was the founder of the first City of Los Angeles Mural Program in 1974, which evolved into a community arts organization known as the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) which has been creating sites of public memory since 1976. She continues to serve as its artistic director and focuses her creative energy in the UCLA@SPARC Digital/Mural Lab, employing digital technology to create social justice art.Baca’s artworks are as much about the process of how they’re made
as they are about the end result. She begins as an artist from the awareness that the land has memory that must be expressed and creates art that is shaped by an interactive relationship among history, people and place, that marks the dignity of hidden historical precedents, restores connections and stimulates new relationships into the future. Baca’s public artworks focus on revealing and reconciling diverse peoples’ struggles for their rights and affirm the connections of each community to that place. She gives form to monuments that rise up out of neighborhoods, rather than being imposed upon them. Together with the people who live there, they co-create monumental public art, places that become “sites of public memory.”
This interdisciplinary speaker series
explores the ways in which the
Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI)
have enabled women around the globe to be empowered and develop innovative ways to address the challenges they face. The speakers will discuss how they have utilized creativity and cultural forms (including art, film, literature, theater, comics, and photography) to challenge the social order and become leaders and innovators in their fields.
“The cultural and creative industries … are among the most powerful sources for new development pathways that encourage creativity and innovation in the pursuit of inclusive, equitable and sustainable growth and development”.
—- United Nations Report on Culture.
This event is free and open to all!
