HomeMy WebLinkAbout2005 064 CC RESO2005 064 CC RESO @äÚyÿ Š :èô RESOLUTION NO. 2005-064
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF BALDWIN PARK, CALIFORNIA
HONORING PROFESSOR JUDITH F. BACA FOR
HER COMMITMENT TO ART AND CELEBRATING
FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND EXPRESSION
WHEREAS, Professor Judith F. Baca is a native Southern Californian, a visual artist,
community leader and educator, best known for her creation of public murals involving
extensive community participation; and
WHEREAS, Professor Baca began her public service in 1969 with the Cultural Affairs
Division of the City of Los Angeles as a resident Fine Artist in East Los Angeles; and
WHEREAS, Professor Baca founded the first City of Los Angeles mural program in
1974; and
WHEREAS, in 1976 she founded the Social and Public Art Resource Center SPARC) in
Venice, California, a socially relevant organization; at the heart of its beliefs is art as a tool for
social change and self-transformation; and
WHEREAS, in February 1992, the City of Baldwin Park decided to commission an artist
for an artwork at the Baldwin Park Metrolink Station and to participate in a cost sharing
Agreement with Los Angeles County Transportation Commission LACTC) Art for Rail Transit
Program; and
WHEREAS, in April 1992, the City of Baldwin Park produced a Public Art Plan for the
Baldwin Park Metrolink Station and appointed both an Art Advisory Committee and an Artist
Selection Panel which reviewed LACTC's artist registry of over 500 artists, interviewing 3
artists for the project resulting in the selection of Judith F. Baca; and
WHEREAS, Professor Baca led an Art Advisory Committee and Art Panel that included
members of community to develop a public art proposal for the Metrolink Station; and
WHEREAS, the Art Advisory Committee consisted of Julia McNeill, Councilwoman; Ed
Huetinck, Planning Commissioner; Sid Mousavi, Public Works Director; Katherine Diamond,
Project Architect; Martin Gallegos, Councilman; Lawrence Onaga, City Planner; Lupe
Gonzales, Resident; and Ralph Nunez, Administrative Assistant; and
WHEREAS, the Art Panel consisted of Bette Lowes, Former Mayor; Lupe Gonzalez,
Resident; Richard Wyatt, Artist; Kirk Delman, Artist; and Barbara Goldstein, Cultural Arts; and
WHEREAS, in June 1992 the City of Baldwin Park approved the final public art project
proposal; and
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WHEREAS, on May 22, 1993, the Baldwin Park Metrolink Station opened to the public
with DANZA INDIGENAS Indigenous Dance) by Professor Judith F. Baca as a cultural focal
point; and
WHEREAS, during April 1995, the Baldwin Park Metrolink Station and Danzas Indigenas
were awarded the Annual Urban Beautification Design Award by the Los Angeles Business
Council; and
WHEREAS, Danzas Indigenas depicts a random set of inscriptions representing the
attitudes of various people who have settled in Baldwin Park through many generations,
ethnicities, and spans of time, inviting one to contemplate the meaning of those inscriptions as
time passes; and
WHEREAS, the strong sentiments expressed by people who make various
interpretations of its meaning after 12 years, is a testament to its value as an artwork that will
be meaningful well into the future; and
WHEREAS, the City of Baldwin Park is committed to the cultural arts of the United
States recognizing the diversity of its people and their freedom to express themselves through
creativity, ingenuity, honesty and ultimate respect for the democratic values in which we thrive;
and
WHEREAS, the City of Baldwin Park holds no rancor or malice towards people who
have protested against Danzas Indigenas but takes their activism as a symbol of our ultimate
freedom of expression.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BALDWIN PARK DOES
DECLARE:
JUNE 25T", 2005 AS A DAY OF CELEBRATION FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND
EXPRESSION HONORING JUDITH F. BACA FOR HER COURAGE IN THE FACE OF
ADVERSITY, AND AS A REMINDER OF ALL THE ARTISTS OF UNITED STATES AND THE
WORLD WHO STRIVE TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES IN AN ENVIRONMENT FULL OF
FREEDOM IN THE ABSENCE OF COERCION.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 22nd day of June, 2 05
M O NO
MAYOR
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ATTEST:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ss.
CITY OF BALDWIN PARK
I, LAURA M. NIETO, Deputy City Clerk of the City of Baldwin Park, do hereby certify
that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly approved and adopted by the City
Council of the City of Baldwin Park at a special meeting of June 22, 2005 by the following
vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: David J. Olivas, Bill Van Cleave, Mayor Pro
Tern Ricardo Pacheco, and Mayor Manuel
Lozano
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: Marlen Garcia
ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
A&
URA M. NIETO
DEPUTY CITY CLERK
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