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Baca was born in East Los Angeles, California to Mexican American parents. She was raised in an all-female home. Her grandmother was an herbal healer, which profoundly influenced her sense of Indigenous Chicano culture. Baca was present at the 1970 Chicano Moratorium , an Anti-war action of the Chicano Movement . She earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in art from California State University, Northridge (CSUN). In 1974, she founded Los Angeles's first mural program, which produced over 400 murals. In 1976, she founded SPARC. In 1977, she attended a workshop at the Taller Siqueiros in Cuernavaca , Mexico , to learn muralism techniques. Baca began a professorship at University Of California, Irvine in 1980. In 1988, Mayor Of Los Angeles Tom Bradley commissioned her to create the Neighborhood Pride Program, a citywide project to paint murals. The project employed over 1,000 at-risk youth and is responsible for over 80 murals throughout the city. In 1993, she co-founded UCLA's Cesar Chavez Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, an institution for which she serves as vice chair. In 1998, Baca organized a travelling mural dedicated to World Peace called ''The World Wall: A Vision of the Future without Fear''. IMPORTANT WORKS
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