The UCLA César Chávez/SPARC
The first of its kind anywhere, the UCLA César Chávez/SPARC Digital Mural Lab offers digital imaging options for large-scale mural productions in a service-based learning environment for students of UCLA's César E. Chávez Center and the World Arts and Cultures Department.
The Digital Mural Laboratory is used to teach the UCLA Digital/Mural Imaging Workshop Course entitled "Beyond the Mexican Mural-Muralism and Community Development" offered concurrently by the César Chávez Center, the World Arts and Cultures and Fine Arts Departments, and taught by Professor Judith F. Baca.
The UCLA Digital Mural Laboratory is located at the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), a Los Angeles landmark, in the old art deco style Venice Police Station building 15 minutes from campus. SPARC has, over a twenty year period, sponsored much of Los Angeles' rich legacy of murals in every community citywide. This non-profit educational/art organization houses the largest mural archive in the world, as well as, a public art gallery, mural painting studio, printmaking and photography facilities. The Digital Mural Laboratory offers UCLA students from multiple disciplines and majors the opportunity to work in a community setting to create public art projects in Los Angeles through the use of state-of-the art digital technology.
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