through a process called "Imagining of Content", which was developed at SPARC. The process includes research, inviting experts in various fields relating to the content, and members of the group working collectively to decide important cultural, political, artistic, and historical stories. The process also includes interviewing people who lived through parts of history, if possible. Imagining of Content is designed to help weed out biases. The artists involved with the process would take the information, create thumbnail sketches, and then submit these drawings to critique. The chosen thumbnails were finished in color and then transferred to the wall in large scale. The process from start to finish for each section of the wall took about a year. Originally, 80 young people from the juvenile justice program were recruited to help work on the mural. They worked about 25 hours a week and paid at minimum wage. The diversity of backgrounds among the young people was a challenge for Baca to coordinate. She recalls that there were "warring neighborhoods" and that her teams spoke many different languages. In addition, the people who lived in the middle-class neighborhood of Tujunga Wash were skeptical that this "invasion of juvenile delinquents" would behave themselves. Baca found a way to make things work harmoniously. The young workers knew her as the "mural lady". She mentored many young people during the project. Baca felt that they were able to learn many useful skills, such as math, history, and art which many of them had few of these skills mastered at the time. In the years 1981 and 1983, additional young people were hired through a grant from the Jewish Community Foundation. Over 400 young people helped paint the mural over the course of 6 summers. The names of the young people who worked on the Great Wall of Los Angeles are recorded in various places on the mural. In addition, the work of 40 historians and 40 different artists helped make the Great Wall of Los Angeles a reality. Toward the very end of the project, a flood washed away all the necessary materials the artists needed to finish the project, including the scaffolding. The community donated $20,000, which was collected in the span of two weeks, to help the artists complete their work. The Great Wall of Los Angeles was finished in 1984. Refurbishing and the future Over time, the mural suffered environmental damage and