In 2022, the iconic L.A. comedian Cheech Marin opened an art museum with the hope of inspiring a Chicano art renaissance. "I looked around and said, 'This could be the next big art town' — because the ...

Cheech Marin is an occasional visitor to his namesake museum in Riverside. Visitors have bumped into him in The Cheech’s galleries and gotten autographs and photos. Now a statue of the actor and comic ...

The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum has generated $29 million for the city of Riverside in its first two years, city officials said. The museum, commonly ...

The Cheech is turning 2 years old and the public is invited to its party. The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of The Riverside Art Museum, which opened June 18, 2022, will host a free ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Cheech Marin gave an inside look at his seminal collection of Chicano art which is now housed at The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture and Industry in Riverside. Marin ...

Actor and Chicano art collector Cheech Marin stands with the recently unveiled "Meet Me At the Cheech" statue by Ignacio Gómez. (all photos by Carlos Puma, courtesy the Riverside Art Museum and the ...

Just months after California legalized recreational marijuana the state is giving stoner comedian Cheech Marin's Chicano art museum $9.7 million. It must be kismet. The money was rolled up in the $139 ...

YAKIMA – Cheech Marin was unsure if he wanted to contribute his massive collection of Chicano art for a new museum. He wouldn’t be loaning it; he would be donating it. He needed a sign. Marin was ...

Cheech Marin dedicates the 2025 Arts Award “to all the artists” who’ve made Chicano Art. Cheech Marin dedicates the 2025 Arts Award “to all the artists” who’ve made Chicano Art that allowed “The ...