The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry of the Riverside Art Museum, lovingly abbreviated to just "The Cheech," is expected to open in Riverside, California later this year. Furthering his goal to introduce Chicano art to a wider audience, Marin has entered a partnership with the City of Riverside and Riverside Art Museum to create The Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture, and Industry. Cheech Marin comes to Riverside to celebrate his Chicano art museum fundraising milestone Riverside’s ‘Cheech’ museum gets enough money in state budget to open in 2020 When comedian and actor Cheech Marin agreed to gift his art collection to the Riverside Art Museum, which will administer the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture, & Industry, it … Tyndall filmed Marin at the Art Museum of South Texas, so the Chicano art in consistently on view. It's been a labor of love for the 74-year-old collector who jokingly described the Chicano art collecting scene as "not a crowded field" to The Art Newspaper. For Muzeo, a publicly funded museum in downtown Anaheim, and for actor and art collector Cheech Marin, it’s a take two. The art exhibition "Papel Chicano Dos: Works on Paper, from the Collection of Cheech Marin" runs from Feb. 2 through May 7 at the Riverside Art Museum. Cheech is an actor, director, writer, musician, chicano art collector, art exhibitor, and humanitarian … a man who has enough talent, humor, and intelligence to do just about anything. Grammy-nominated musician El Dusty, known for mixing musical genres, wrote the score for The Cheech , adding yet another layer of artistic fusion. Los Tejanos: Chicano Art from the Cheech Marin Collection presents 39 artworks by 14 artists born and/or based in Texas who are currently represented in this renowned collection. New Museum: Scream and Take Selfies at Distortions Monster World ... And considering the forthcoming Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & … It is a documentary about a movie icon discussing fine art and museum studies. The Los Angeles suburb, with a population that's more than 50 percent Latino, offered to convert one of its building into the Cheech Marin Museum of Chicano Art, … Best known as one half of the hilariously irreverent, satirical, counter-culture, no-holds-barred duo Cheech and Chong (now on tour), Cheech Marin is a paradox in the world of entertainment. The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry of the Riverside Art Museum, or The Cheech, is an art museum and academic center under development in Riverside, California, United States, with a planned opening in 2021.The center will focus on the presentation and study of chicano art from across the United States. Sound The gallery will resume in … Cheech’s passion for Chicano art is so well known that the city of Riverside, California partnered with him to launch a museum entirely dedicated to the Chicano art movement which is still active today. “It’s a long era of really talented painters throughout society, in many places at once,” said Cheech…