About The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum
Open since June 17, 2022, The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture aka “The Cheech” resides in a renovated mid-century building in Riverside, California. The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum is dedicated to showcasing Chicana/o/x art, honoring and exploring its continued social, cultural, and political impact. The first cultural center of its kind, 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.
