Azusa Street is located in the Little Tokyo area of Downtown Los Angeles. The project vision is to utilize the existing wall that lies between the south side of Azusa Street and the Noguchi Plaza, part of the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (JACCC), and create a monument.
Etchings and panel reliefs will be used to transform the wall into a memorial that brings the Azusa Street Revival to life and sets it within the larger context of the history and development of the Los Angeles area and Little Tokyo.
The Wall Project is being developed by renowned muralist Judy Baca. Judy is an American Chicana artist, activist, and University of California, Los Angeles professor of Chicana/o Studies in the School of Social Sciences and a professor of World Arts and Cultures in the School of Art and Architecture. She is the co-founder and artistic director of the Venice, California-based Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), a community arts center, and is best known as the director of the mural project that created one of the largest murals in the world, the Great Wall of Los Angeles.
“We have an opportunity to tell the whole and diverse story of Los Angeles, which is truly a city of multi-ethnic people.”
Judy Baca
Augmented Reality can transform the Wall into a virtual museum. Through the download of an app users will be able to point their smartphones at various images and icons on the wall giving them access to video, pictures, articles or other media about the Azusa Street Revival and other elements of the events and seasons depicted in the wall panels.
