Let's visit a new exhibition at the The Cheech Museum in Riverside
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We will visit ‘Cheech Collects IV’ the cornerstone exhibition at The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum designed to be updated annually. The latest iteration of Cheech Collects offers nearly 90 artworks by almost 40 artists drawn from Cheech Marin’s gift of more than 500 works to the Riverside Art Museum, which is next door to The Cheech.
I stopped by the museum a few days ago to view this new collection and it was exciting to see paintings that I hadn’t seen in years.
When I first visited the Cheech in June '22, I had high expectations, but actually the quality of the work, the color, the expression, exceeded my expectations. In fact, it blew me away. Video of my first impressions: https://youtu.be/xNeFGthrNZU
It’s best to reserve tickets in advance, so please purchase your ticket as soon as possible. Be sure you want to attend, as tickets are non-refundable. Also, a limited number of walk-in tickets may be available.
Here is the ticket link: https://riversideartmuseum.org/get-tickets/
I usually find free parking in the museum’s lot, or on nearby side streets.
Park map: https://riversideca.gov/fol/FOL%202023%20Duration_Parking%20Map%20Digital.pdf
Open since 2022, The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture aka “The Cheech” resides in a renovated mid-century building that originally opened as the City of Riverside, California’s public library in 1964. Dedicated to showcasing Chicana/o/x art, honoring and exploring its continued social, cultural, and political impact, it’s 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 1970s to its contemporary and evolving response to current social conditions and global artistic movements.
The 61,420-square-foot center houses hundreds of paintings, drawings, photographs, and sculptures by artists including Patssi Valdez, Sandy Rodriguez, Carlos Almaraz, Frank Romero, and Gilbert “Magú” Luján.