Great Wall of Los Angeles

The Great Wall of Los Angeles, the longest mural in the world (2,754 ft.), is one of Los Angeles’ true cultural landmarks and one of the country’s most respected monuments to inter-racial harmony. The mural is painted on the concrete channel wall of the Tujunga Wash next to LA Valley College. Conceived by artist Judith F. Baca (founder and director of SPARC, a non-profit multicultural art center) in 1974 and completed in 1983, the Great Wall is a pictorial representation of the history of ethnic peoples of California from prehistoric times to the 1950’s.

Over the course of its creation, 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. Funds are currently being raised to refurbish the wall. Images of individual wall panels can be seen here.