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Feb 3, 2024 · The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture opened in June 2022 as a public-private partnership between RAM, the City of Riverside, and comedian Cheech Marin—one of the world’s foremost collectors of Chicano art.
The Cheech is home to the unparalleled Cheech Marin Collection of Chicano Art. It is a space for continued exhibition, scholarship, and dialogue, of Chicano art’s deep roots in the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 70s to its contemporary and evolving response to current social conditions and global artistic movements.
The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, known as The Cheech, is a museum in Riverside, California. It is part of the larger Riverside Art Museum. The center is focused on the exhibition and study of Chicano art from across the United States.
The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum is located at 3581 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside, CA, 92501, on the corner of Mission Inn Ave. and Orange St. Get Directions.
Jun 21, 2022 · Actor and comedian Cheech Marin has long been a collector of Latino artwork. This past weekend, he cut the ribbon on a new museum: The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture.
Dec 19, 2022 · Part of the comedy duo Cheech and Chong, Marin is also an aficionado of Chicano art. His monumental collection is now housed at a Riverside, Calif., museum affectionately called "The Cheech."
Jun 18, 2022 · A visitor looks at one of the mixed-media installations on display in the temporary exhibition, “Collidoscope,” by artist-brothers Einar and Jamex de la Torre, at The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in downtown Riverside on Thursday, June 16, 2022.
Jun 22, 2022 · The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, or ‘The Cheech’ as it’s called, houses nearly 500 paintings, drawings, and sculptures donated from comedian, actor and art collector Cheech...
Jun 18, 2022 · After five years of planning and fundraising, comedian and actor Cheech Marin’s Chicano art museum welcomed its first guests Saturday, June 18, with a street celebration to herald a venue that’s expected to put the city on the national arts map.
The Cheech is a beautiful museum which provides an exceptional site to exhibit a variety of Latin artwork, many donated by Cheech Marin himself. Well worth a visit if you are interested in contemporary Latin multimedia artwork.
