Richard 'Cheech' Marin's collection has a permanent home at the new Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum, in Riverside, California. It's affectionately known as 'The Cheech.'
Richard"Cheech" Marin, of the comedy duo Cheech and Chong, is not only renowned for stoner comedies — he's also an aficionado of Chicano art, which he started collecting around 1985."It's an addiction," he said."Hi, my name is Cheech, and I'm an art addict.""I've been a collector of anything since I was a little kid - marbles, baseball cards, stamps, anything," he told CBS News.
Chicano art, according to Marin, isn't a style of painting; it's more of a flavor of the Mexican American community. Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum"I got that in as soon as I possibly could," he laughed."'What should we call this?' 'The Cheech would be a good name!'"
"He wanted this work to be seen," said María Esther Fernández, artistic director of The Cheech."And I think that's where he diverges from other collectors. And so, he knocked on doors, and he wasn't always well-received, but he persisted." He was determined to tour his collection, taking it to some 50 museums around the country. In 2002, he brought it to the Smithsonian."What we are saying with this exhibit is, Chicano is American," he said. Then in 2017, the city of Riverside, with a population more than 50% Latino, wanted to find a new mission for its old library — and came to Marin.
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