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Rendering of the Cheech Marin Heart for Chicano Artwork & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum. All images courtesy of the Riverside Art Museum.



The Cheech Marin Centre for Chicano Artwork & Lifestyle of the Riverside Art Museum, California, has damaged ground and will open up in spring future 12 months. […] A community-non-public partnership between the Riverside Artwork Museum, the Town of Riverside, and comedian Cheech Marin—one of the world’s foremost collectors of Chicano art—the centre will be, as Marin says, the “center of Chicano artwork, not only portray, but sculpture, pictures, and video arts.”
— The Development Specifier


Nicknamed “The Cheech,” the new art and tradition middle will obtain a residence inside of the reworked former public library creating in Riverside, California. The adaptive-reuse conversion of this 1964 mid-century setting up is designed by Los Angeles-based architects Webpage & Turnbull in collaboration with museum designer WHY.
“The semi-circular entry methods draw the visitor in the direction of the setting up, and the open up ‘front porch’ podium will feature large-scale sculptures to be rotated in accordance to new programming and exhibitions,” describes the job description. “The building’s entry lobby is envisaged as a zócalo or open town square, a central collecting place that will join the 4 main galleries and offer features these types of as a present shop and, finally, a cafe.”
The Cheech is predicted to open up in spring 2022.
The Cheech opens Spring 2022! Because of to COVID-19 constraints, a non-conventional “groundbreaking” was filmed to commemorate start off of design. You’ll ALL be invited to the significant grand opening celebrations, so stick to @thecheechcenter to remain in the know! #TheCheech #iloveriverside pic.twitter.com/lmmVwABZOB
— The Cheech (@TheCheechCenter) April 9, 2021