Fall Open House: Judith F. Baca and Carey Lovelace in Conversation

Saturday, September 10, 2022
Introduction by Anna Katz, MOCA Curator

Judith F. Baca is an emeritus Professor of the University of California Los Angeles, where she was a senior professor in the Chicana/o Studies and World Art and Cultures Departments from 1996 until 2018, and in Studio Art at the University of California, Irvine from 1980 to 1996. In 2012, the Los Angeles Unified School District named an elementary school the Judith F. Baca Arts Academy, located in Watts, her birthplace. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and the United States Artist Rockefeller Fellowship; the nonprofit Social and Public Art Resource Center, which Baca co-founded in 1976 and where she serves as Artistic Director, is a recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant, awarded for the expansion of the Great Wall of Los Angeles mural in North Hollywood. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia; the Autry National Center; the J. Paul Getty Museum; the Museum of Latin American Art; and MOCA, among many more.

Carey Lovelace has written for publications including The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Artforum, Art in America, Ms.,and Flash Art – particularly about art by women. She was Co-Commissioner of the U.S. Pavilion of the 2013 Venice Biennale featuring Sarah Sze, and she co-curated Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary at the Drawing Center (New York), traveling to the Canadian Center for Architecture (Montreal), MOCA (Los Angeles), the Holland Festival, and the Berlin Akademie der Kunst, as well as Making It Together: Women's Collaborative Art + Community at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. An Andrew and Marian Heiskell Visiting Critic at the American Academy of Rome, she served as Co-President of the U.S. chapter of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA-USA), whose 435 members form the nation's leading association of cultural writers. She has a BFA in ethnomusicology and composition from CalArts, an MA in journalism from NYU, and an MFA in playwrighting from the Actors Studio/New School; she is also an award-winning playwright, heading Loose Change Production, dedicated to transnational, transcultural theater. In 2019, the Bronx Museum of the Arts awarded her a Visionary Award. Since 2019, she has headed Visions2030, which she founded, committed to harnessing the artistic imagination to create new paradigms of society; among other activities, the initiative is planning to stage the 8-day EcoConsciousness2023 hubbed at CalArts next September.
Anna Katz is Curator at MOCA, where her recent exhibitions include Judith F. Baca: World Wall (2022); Garrett Bradley: American Rhapsody (2022), organized by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Pipilotti Rist: Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor (2021); and With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985 (2019), which traveled to the CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, in 2021. From 2015 to 2017 Katz was the Wendy Stark Curatorial Fellow at MOCA. Previously a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art from 2008 to 2013, she holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University.

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