The Cheech @TheCheechCenter
The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture—a partnership b/w @RAMriverside, City of Riverside, & Cheech Marin. #TheCheech TheCheechCenter.org Riverside, CA Joined June 2017-
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In 2023, we have welcomed over 130,000 guests to our dual sites, including 10,000 students for museum tours, and have provided art lessons to nearly 30,000 children. Let’s work together to exceed these numbers come 2024 and spread the arts to our vast and diverse community!
Check out our holiday hours! For more info, visit riversideartmuseum.org
The Riverside Art Museum and The Cheech Center for Arts & Culture will be closed on Sunday, August 20th and Monday, August 21st due to extreme weather.
SCAM ALERT. There are people impersonating members of our team requesting payments to meet Cheech Marin and for tickets and sponsorships. Unfortunately, these are scams. We are working with the local authorities to investigate, please contact us if this happens to you.
Only 20% of museum leadership identify as non-White. In partnership with @MellonFdn, @FordFoundation, Alice L. Walton Foundation and Pilot House, #LAM aims to build more diversity in staff positions such as curators and conservators to close the gap. fordf.org/LAM
We are proud to be a part of Leadership in Art Museums (LAM), a $11M+ collaborative initiative to increase racial equity in museum leadership roles across the U.S. #LAM #MuseumDiversity
In collaboration with The Cheech Center, two Grammy Award-winning East Los Angeles-based groups La Santa Cecila and Quetzal will combine efforts to present Music From Below: A History and Future of Chicano Music. Get tickets riversideartmuseum.org/events/music-f…
Meet Raymond Argumedo, visual artist and gallerist whose work has been featured at @TheCheechCenter! You can win a piece by Raymond called “From Above 2” by entering our raffle TONIGHT 4/6 from 6-9pm during Artswalk at The Cheech! #AlturaCU #AlturaCares #riversideartswalk
Saw some absolute beautiful masterpieces at @TheCheechCenter here’s some highlights. We owe @CheechMarin a big thanks for this museum.
“Sangre Sudor y Amor” by Janet Diaz. From the new Land of Milk and Honey exhibit @TheCheechCenter #chicanaart
.@RAMriverside opened its second location, @TheCheechCenter, in June 2022. The Cheech is a community center as well as an artistic & scholarly hub, holding 500+ notable Chicano art works. RAM and partners worked to launch this center over the course of 5 years. #IMLSmedals
.@RAMriverside’s vision has been fundamental in program and policy development to bring BIPOC audiences to the core of operations from exhibitions to governance. The board is now more than 70% BIPOC, an increase from 8% just a decade ago. #IMLSmedals @TheCheechCenter
Award-winning artist Juan Navarro works with community members to identify creative-placemaking projects, most recently working with artists and business owners to creatively revitalize storefronts along Park Avenue. @RAMriverside @TheCheechCenter #IMLSmedals
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THREAD: The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture opens it’s doors today in Riverside. LAist is here for the opening ceremony.
@LAist @CheechMarin Super congratulations!!!!
@LAist Congrats @CheechMarin, @TheCheechCenter and the city of Riverside for materializing belief. Can't wait to visit!
WAKING UP WITH CHEECH! @mtelles is joined by @CheechMarin at @TheCheechCenter in #Riverside. It's the nation's first museum & cultural center devoted exclusively to Chicano art and culture. Read all about it here: bit.ly/3xTLWiT
Just two guys in casual footwear, talking about art. I interview Cheech Marin on June 8 inside @TheCheechCenter in Riverside, which opens June 18. Column coming! Photography by @WillLesterPhoto.
Thank you to @CheechMarin, the entire staff at @TheCheechCenter, and the many volunteers + local officials who spoke to me about the opening of the center. nytimes.com/2022/06/14/art…
I think many of us who feel like we're trying to hold space between two or more cultures, languages, universes, can find beauty and resonance in Chicano/a/x art. I am deeply grateful to @bagrau and the @nytimesarts team for immediately recognizing the value of this story.🙏🏽
Imagine your favorite childhood place, not torn down, but repurposed and filled with groundbreaking art--art that often affirms your existence in the world. So many difficult things happening in the world; this story, for me, offers a ray of light. nytimes.com/2022/06/14/art…
Growing up not far from there, we spent countless weekends in this building. It's where I learned to read (and, I know it's cheesy, but where I learned to dream). So many of us are forced to watch our childhood landmarks disintegrate.
On a recent walk-through of @TheCheechCenter, I choked up a bit watching the art go up. The center is located in the former Riverside public library, whose signature fish-net-like concrete decorative panels are burned into the memory of anybody who grew up in Riverside.
Harry Gamboa Jr., one of ASCO's founding members, said the spray-painting action was a response to the to the dearth of Chicanos inside the museum, and a comment made by a LACMA curator, who said "Chicanos were only in gangs and that they didn’t make art." frieze.com/article/tenemo…
The Cheech arrives on the scene almost exactly 50 years after the badass East Los punk-art Chicano collective, ASCO, spray-painted their names on the front of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 1972. Here is one of ASCO's founding members, Patssi Valdez, by said wall.
.@TheCheechCenter will be a place to investigate what we mean by 'Chicano art,' said Marin. Check out this story from Walter Thompson-Hernández about Chicano/a/x-inspired cultura in Japan: nytimes.com/2019/02/19/sty…
María Esther Fernández, @TheCheechCenter's inaugural artistic director, says the center will engage with complicated questions around identity & terminology. "Do we say 'Chicanx', or do we not say Chicanx? There's 'Chicano' in the name, but what does that mean?" said Fernández.
Marin's ambitions for the center extend beyond his collection. The center is establishing a film program, headed by director Robert Rodriguez, which will help train filmmakers in the principles of low-budget film-making. 🎥🎬
You really have to see Judithe Hernández's "La Santa Desconocida" de la serie Juárez / "The Unknown Saint" from the Juarez series (2017), in person to appreciate its scale, color, and somber beauty.
Here is Frank Romero's 1996 painting, “The Arrest of the Paleteros.” In the feverish scene, based on a real incident, police in riot gear train their weapons on a group of terror-stricken street vendors at Echo Park Lake. Still relevant.
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