In 2017, the Riverside Art Museum presented a touring exhibition of works on paper from the private collection of actor and comedian Cheech Marin. In 2022, the Riverside Art Museum opened the doors to the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, which is focused on presenting art from Marin’s collection: namely, the Chicano artists he has championed and …
You’d be hard-pressed to find someone with local roots deeper than L.A.-born Cheech Marin, who parlayed a 1970s stoner comedy act into a six-decade movie and TV career, becoming a high-profile collector of Chicano art along the way — all while living in the Greater L.A. area. Interesting!” I also get two newspapers — the New York Times and the …
Ofelia Valdez-Yeager, the fierce Latino arts fundraiser and “connector of people” who helped establish the Riverside Art Museum’s Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture, and who made history by becoming the first Latina to serve on the local school board, died Sunday in the presence of her husband and their four children. “We knew right away after we …
