With an event that included lowriders, art and music, the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture welcomes its first visitors Saturday, June 18, in downtown Riverside.

The new Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in downtown Riverside was praised as a game changer for the art world by dignitaries attending a dedication ceremony Thursday, June 16.

Cheech’s Chicano art addiction led to this Riverside museum, which Marin explained is a natural fit for the Inland Empire.

Cheech Marin stands before a lenticular artwork by brothers Einar and Jamex de la Torre, a permanent feature at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture.

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

On a day when America celebrates Mexican culture, Cheech Marin reflects how it was ‘miraculous’ that he launched the first-ever museum dedicated to Chicano art.

Cheech Marin stands before a lenticular artwork by brothers Einar and Jamex de la Torre, a permanent feature at the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture.

Cheech Marin is a regular visitor to the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in Riverside, and not just because he gets in free. How often has he been back since the June 2022 opening of the ...

Actor and comic has been back about once a month since The Cheech opened in June 2022, he tells columnist David Allen, saying the museum is “beyond my wildest dreams.” ...

Cheech Marin is a regular visitor to the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in Riverside, and not just because he gets in free. How often has he been back since the June 2022 opening of ...