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 ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif., Feb. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Riverside's reputation as a cultural powerhouse continues to grow, fueled by the success of The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the ...

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 ...

Stoner comedy legend, actor and Chicano art curator collector Cheech Marin will be honored this year at the 38th annual Hispanic Heritage Awards. The Hispanic Heritage Foundation named Marin as a ...

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 ...

Inside Riverside’s Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, two walls in a quiet corner are devoted to paintings of palm trees on fire. Painted in 2021, “Three Studies of Palm Trees” by Perry ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

Zachary Roman tours the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture with TODEC, an educational group for children of Coachella Valley farmworkers. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) In 2022, the ...

Tall, spindly palm trees with their crowns on fire were a familiar sight during the Pacific Palisades and Eaton fires. Burning palms became a somber visual shorthand for the fires or simply for life ...