Actor and comedian Richard “Cheech” Marin is set to speak at the opening ceremony of the “El Noroeste” exhibit at the Tacoma Art Museum this Saturday. Marin, commonly known for being one half of the ...
The Huntington in San Marino is presenting the West Coast debut of a deeply impactful exhibition of six decades of Chicano ...
For many, Cheech Marin is a household name. The comedian and actor is best known as part of the countercultural duo Cheech and Chong, but he’s also an avid collector of Chicano art and opened the ...
A conversation with Cheech Marin and his art permanently at “The Cheech” in Riverside. Lillian Vasquez talks with art collector, actor and comedian Cheech Marin as they look back at the opening of The ...
On an almost six feet tall sculpture made up of produce boxes, there’s a full body sketch of a man in ink and charcoal. The boxes, wearing recognizable brands like Chiquita and Sunkist, are stacked up ...
An image of the El Alacrán Newsletter at UT Arlington from 1972. The newsletter provided a voice for the Chicano community on campus. Courtesy UTA Association of Mexican-American Students Records, ...
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium. On August 29, 1970, hundreds of Mexican Americans in Los Angeles marched to protest the Vietnam War. Sheriff's deputies and police ...
As a child growing up in California, Rep. Lou Correa watched as his Mexican American neighbors returned from having served in the Vietnam War and still had to fight against discrimination, poverty and ...
The year is 2042. Laws protecting human rights have been reversed, and community elders are vanishing. Chicana starlet Veronica Del Rio, soon turning 75, then emerges from the mist of futuristic ...
Chicano tattooing has an undeniable power in American imagery. “I feel like how far it’s gained traction shows how popular and accepted Chicano culture has grown across the country and globally,” says ...