The Chicano Art Festival is at risk this year after organizers ran out of funding before the event could be planned.

The Chicano Center for the Arts is canceling its annual art festival after 10 years due to lack of funding.

An influential and rare permanent space dedicated to prolific Chicano art and culture –possibly the nation’s first and largest permanent collection of Mexican American Art, museum officials say – ...

As he approaches his 80th birthday, the comedian and collector revels in watching people interact with the art at his namesake museum in Riverside, California ...

Cheech Marin’s Chicano art museum is not going up in smoke, apparently. On Wednesday, the comedian’s longtime dream took a big step toward becoming a reality, as the state of California approved a ...

Slated to open next year, the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry of the Riverside Art Museum — or “The Cheech” for short — will explore the breadth of Chicano culture, from ...

Saturday was a red-letter day for the history of art in Southern California. On June 18, the Riverside Art Museum opened its Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture in a handsomely renovated, ...

For decades, comedian Cheech Marin has been finding ways to bring attention to Chicano art. The avid art collector has produced several traveling exhibitions from his collection, served as an ...

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Richard “Cheech” Marin–the iconic comedian and actor–had for 30 years established himself as a preeminent collector of Chicano art by the time officials from the City of Riverside, California and the ...