A voice from the east side

Published: August 28, 2007, 2:34 am

Judith Baca send an email from Provincetown, Massachusetts where the muralist, UCLA Professor and co-founder of SPARC , is spending the month as Artist in Residence for the Gaea Foundation. While on the east-east side, where the sun sets with in a different light , Judith started a blog dubbed Political Landscape Writer and gives an update on her portrait of Dolores Huerta that will be part of The Cesar Chavez Monument in San Jose. Plus, she writes in her recent entry:I am beginning to believe I am a political landscape painter. I have always known the value of art as a tool for transformation both personal and political. What I have had to learn through being attentive to my own curiosities and artistic focus, is that I choose often to use land as my method of recording memories and stories in my paintings and murals.The blog may continue when she gets back to the "westside". Above is youtube on the 60s segment of her lifelong project The Great Wall. Bio

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