On Saturday, September 17, 2011 from 3:00pm to 6:00pm the public is invited to celebrate the restoration of the Great Wall of Los Angeles Mural – the largest monument to inter-racial harmony in America today. The Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) is presenting a three-hour celebration featuring keynote speakers, musicians and poets. The Great Wall of Los Angeles is located along the Tujunga Wash Flood Control Channel on Coldwater Canyon Ave, between Burbank Blvd. and Oxnard Street, just north of the 101 Freeway in the L.A. community of Valley Glen. The event is free to the public.
Great Wall visionary and SPARC’s Founder/Artistic Director and Distinguished UCLA Professor Judith F. Baca, Los Angeles City Councilmember Paul Krekorian, Los Angeles City Controller Wendy Greuel (former Second District Councilmember) and California State Assemblymember Felipe Fuentes will be present at the re-dedication ceremony.
Additional community partners for the event include UCLA, The City Project, NoHo Arts District, KCET Departures, the Greater Valley Glen Council, and wHY Architecture. The community is welcome to bring a picnic, blanket, and chairs. A variety of food trucks will also be available.
About the Project: The Project was created and directed by California Chicana muralist Judy Baca, SPARC’s Founder/Artistic Director and involves the restoration and preservation of “The Great Wall of Los Angeles†mural, a half-mile long monument and a landmark to the history of America and California from prehistoric times to the 1950’s.
Begun in 1976 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.
SPARC is a community-based non-profit arts organization founded in 1976 by muralist Judith F. Baca, filmmaker Donna Deitch, and artist Christina Schlesinger. SPARC is dedicated to producing, presenting, and preserving public artworks in Los Angeles, nationally, and internationally.
For more information:www.sparcmurals.org or 310-822-9560
