Tattooing the River: People, Place and the Art of Diversity

Bioneers
Bioneers
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1 min readMar 8, 2019

Award-winning painter Judy Baca describes how art can reconnect people to place, revive disappearing history, and repair cultural root systems. While working with at-risk youth to create The Great Wall of Los Angeles, the world’s longest mural, Baca realized that restoring a disappeared river also meant restoring disappeared cultures.

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