Oral history interview with Judith Baca
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 7 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 40 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Baca, Judith Francisca
label: Interviewer
content: Mesa-Bains, Amalia
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Occupation
content: Arts administrators -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Occupation
content: Muralists -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
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content: Mexican American art
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content: Mural painting and decoration, American
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content: Chicano art movement
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content: Women artists
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content: Women painters
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content: Women arts administrators
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content: Women muralists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: These interviews are part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Baca, Judith Francisca
label: Interviewer
content: Mesa-Bains, Amalia
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Judith Baca (1946-) is an art administrator and mural painter from Venice, California.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 59 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1986 August 5-6
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.baca86
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Judith Baca conducted 1986 August 5-6, by Amalia Mesa-Bains, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Baca speaks of her family history, childhood, and education in Los Angeles, her involvement with the Los Angeles muralism movement in the early 1970s, her teaching experience at East Los Angeles recreation center, her directorship of the Eastside murals and of the City-Wide Mural Project, the work of other muralists, feminist views on art which have influenced her work, the origin of the Social and Public Arts Resource Center in Venice, California, her directorship and the mission of the S.P.A.R.C. in 1986, and her own current mural projects.