TheRiverside Art Museumin the Inland Empire debutedThe Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture.
The 75-year-old spent over 40 years finding his favorite pieces, slowly putting together an eclectic collection.
The term Chicano is in flux, Marin says.
The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture (Photo courtesy of Riverside Museum of Art)
We live in flux times.
Everybody is different, and we all have to learn to get along.
Being a Chicano means forging your own path.
Artist’s rendering of The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture (Photo courtesy of Riverside Museum of Art)
Chicano art was always political art, Marin adds.
And year by year, it evolved into what it is today.
It can be political.
Artist’s rendering of The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture (Photo courtesy of Riverside Museum of Art)
It can be non-political.
It can be highly personal.
Patssi Valdez, “Room on the Verge,” 1993 (Photo courtesy of Riverside Museum of Art)
Frank Romero, “The Arrest of the Paleteros,” 1996 (Photo courtesy of the Riverside Museum of Art)
Judith Hernández, “Juarez Quinceañera,” 2017 (Photo courtesy of Riverside Museum of Art)
