The Great Wall of Los Angeles, Mural in San Fernando Valley, US.

This hand-painted mural stretches about 2,750 feet along the concrete walls of Tujunga Wash and shows painted scenes from California's past. The wall is divided into sections, each with its own themes and artistic style.

The project started in 1976 when artist Judith Baca worked with local youth to show historical events from the perspective of underrepresented communities. This collaboration made the artwork a platform for voices rarely heard in established history books.

The mural shows faces and stories of Native Americans, Spanish settlers, Mexican revolutionaries, and civil rights leaders through detailed imagery. These depictions give people a place in history whose voices are otherwise overlooked.

The mural runs along Coldwater Canyon Avenue between Oxnard Street and Burbank Boulevard, at the eastern edge of the Valley College campus in Valley Glen. It is painted on the concrete sides of the Tujunga Wash flood-control channel, so the panels are viewed from the paths along the wash. The wall is 13 feet high and 2,754 feet long, spanning more than six city blocks.

The first panel, depicting Chumash creation stories and native wildlife, was designed by Christina Schlesinger. Each of the other sections was drawn by a different artist working under Baca's supervision, so the wall reads as a chain of separate hands rather than one continuous brush.