Cheech Marin's museum legitimizes Chicano art and boosts the local economy

Cheech Marin’s museum legitimizes Chicano art and boosts the local economy

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 foundations were already there,” Marin told De Los. “There was this kind of nebulous underground here, but [they’ll] reach officialdom when they have their museum.” Now, as the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture enters its fourth year,…

Cheech Marin's museum legitimizes Chicano art and boosts the local economy

The iconic L.A. comedian Cheech Marin has helped fuel a Chicano art renaissance — and boosted the local economy — with his Riverside museum "The Cheech."