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Marin, who was taken by the fact that Riverside is a majority-Latino city, has so far gifted about 500 items from his more than 700-piece collection to the institution, whose new home ultimately underwent a $13.3 million retrofit, funded mainly by the state. It just hasn’t had its moment of glory yet,” says Marin, who was approached about creating the center by Riverside city officials after he exhibited some of his collection at the Riverside Art Museum in 2017. It’s as important as the Hudson River Valley or Ash Can or anything else. “This school of American art is incredibly important in its longevity and its reach, from coast to coast. It will feature paintings, photographs, sculptures and drawings from an A-list of the Chicano art movement, ranging from Frank Romero and Judithe Hernández to Gilbert “Magú” Luján and Patssi Valdez. The “this” Marin is referring to is the new Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum - or The Cheech, for short - which is opening June 18 in the former downtown public library building of Riverside, California. “Thank you, Lord! It felt like this was meant to happen.” “ Four-twenty, you say?” he recalls five years later. He had just learned that the “beautiful midcentury building” he’d been offered to house his leading collection of art by Chicanos (an identifier for people of Mexican descent born in the U.S.) was 61,420 square feet. Cheech Marin - who gained lasting fame as half of the pioneering stoner-comedy duo Cheech & Chong starting in the ’70s before making his own way acting in film and television - thought it was kismet.

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