Riverside Art Museum & The Cheech

Resource Walk at The Cheech, in collaboration with Rainbow Pride Youth Alliance
2025-02-06 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cheech Marin Center, 3581 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside, California, 92507, United States
In partnership with Rainbow Pride Youth Alliance, join us for another Resource Walk at the Cheech! Enjoy art activities, lawn games, and learning about local resources.

Learn more about Rainbow Youth Pride Alliance!

Valentine's Day Cards at RAM
2025-02-06 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Riverside Art Museum, 3425 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92501, United States
Join us for the February Arts Walk and view our newest exhibitions! Stop by our art classroom and make a Valentine’s Day card for a loved one. This activity is all-ages!

Winter Catalog Sale
2025-02-22 10:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
50% off Riverside Art Museum exhibition catalogs from the archives.

RAM - The Cheech Scholarship
2025-02-28 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
Application Criteria

The RAM/ Cheech Scholarship is intended to award $2,500 to a graduating senior to assist with college tuition. If awarded, the scholarship payment would be issued, upon proof of registration, to the university or college the graduating senior attends to be used toward tuition.

The Basic Criteria for the RAM/ Cheech Scholarship include: (1) minimum 2.5 g.p.a.; (2) committed to art or art-related study; (3) engaged w/ local art community (preferred); (4) from a community that is historically underrepresented in the arts (preferred); (5) have a portfolio of visual art (10-pages, if possible).

Note: If you have already started your application via Dollars for Scholars, we urge you to submit as soon as possible. If you have not started your application process, we invite you to print and submit a physical application to The Cheech and Riverside Art Museum. Additionally, scholarship applications will be available at The Cheech and Riverside Art Museum.

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First Sunday at RAM
2025-03-02 01:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Riverside Art Museum, 3425 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92501, United States
Join UCR Gluck Fellows in the Sebler Classroom as they present Playful Frogs, a fun art activity! Amphibians will emerge from hibernation when the weather starts to warm up, around early Spring. In this activity, we will make playful frogs from paper towels and paint and help them make their first jumps into the first days of March!

Visit Bako Balloon and Paint for free face painting and balloon art figures! Balloon twisting from 1pm-2:30pm and face painting from 2:30pm-4pm. Find them on Instagram! @bakoballoonandpaint

Free Admission - First Sunday of every month, in collaboration with RAC
2025-03-02 12:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-06 12:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-04 12:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Riverside Art Museum + The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, 3425 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, California
In collaboration with the Riverside Arts Council, First Sundays is a series of free programs at various downtown Riverside locations. Featuring activities for all-ages, the event takes place every first Sunday of the month from 1 to 4 p.m.

As part of Free Sundays, Riverside Art Museum (Julia Morgan Building) and The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture are both free and open to the public from 12 to 5 p.m. No tickets are necessary.

Presenting Sponsor:

Plática at The Cheech - Amalia Mesa-Bains with Judy Baca
2025-03-02 12:30 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cheech Marin Center, 3581 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside, California, 92507, United States

First Sunday with UCR Gluck Fellows
2025-03-02 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cheech Marin Center, 3581 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside, California, 92507, United States
Join the UCR Gluck Fellow in the Cheech Classroom for a fun, free, and all-ages friendly art activity!

“The mission of the Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts at the University of California, Riverside is to create the opportunity for the broader community to benefit from the creative, performative, and the expository talents of the graduate and undergraduate students of the Departments of Art, Creative Writing for the Performing Arts, Dance, History of Art, Music, Theatre, Film and Digital Production, and UCR Arts”

Glide with Swallows!
2025-03-02 13:30 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Riverside Art Museum, 3425 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92501, United States
Puppets a la Carte presents: “Glide with Swallows!” Play with the story of the migration of the Swallows at San Juan Capistrano. This puppet play date uses small bells, paper for nest building, and balls and scarves as swallows. It references: “Song of the Swallows” by Leo Politi and the song “La Golondrina” by Sonia de los Santos. Find them on Instagram! @inlandia_institute and @puppetsalacarte

Free Admission – First Thursday of every month during Riverside ArtsWalk
2025-03-06 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-04-03 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-05-01 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Denver) | Riverside Art Museum + The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, 3425 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, California
Join us on the first Thursday of every month from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. for the Riverside ArtsWalk, a vibrant community event that celebrates the diversity of arts and culture in Riverside and the Inland Empire.
We offer free admission at both Riverside Art Museum (Julia Morgan Building) and The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture as part of the ArtsWalk, which includes many downtown arts destinations.

Riverside Artswalk is hosted by the Riverside Arts Council and sponsored by the City of Riverside and Riverside Downtown Partnership. More information and Artswalk map available here.

Riverside ArtsWalk is supported in part by:

Photo credit: Puma Photography

Little Pinata Maker at RAM
2025-03-06 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Riverside Art Museum, 3425 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92501, United States
Join Esaias Rodriquez, AKA Little Pinata Maker, for a free and fun pinata-making project! DJ Aztex Parrot will be playing music on the rooftop. Stay tuned for their Pinot and Pinatas event on the rooftop on April 19th.

Palabra at The Cheech
2025-03-06 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
Palabra @ The Cheech is a series that celebrates the wonderful tradition of floricanto, poesía, and the spoken word. Join us for this new open mic poetry series co-hosted by Donato Martinez, featuring poets Karla Cordero, Amanda Jade, Gaby Ramos, and Sandy Shakes. Doors open at 6pm.

Schedule:

6:00 pm – Sign-Ups begin

6:30 – 7:00 pm – Acoustic performance by Red Planet Rebellion

7:00 – 8:00 pm – Featured Poets

8:00 – 8:30 pm- Open Mic

Hosted By

Donato Martinez was born in in small pueblo, Garcia de la Cadena, Zacatecas, Mexico and immigrated into USA at six years old. He teaches English composition, Literature, and Creative Writing at Santa Ana College. He has also taught classes in Chicano Studies. He has also been a co-coordinator of the Puente Program for 25 years and has presented workshop sessions at both the regional and state level. He has also spoken at many motivational and educational conferences. He hosts and curates many artistic events that feature poetry and music at his campus or in the community. He is also a poet and writes about his barrio upbringing, his community, his culture, and his Chicano identity. He has a self-published collection with three other Inland Empire poets, Tacos de Lengua. His full length collection of poetry, Touch the Sky, was published in 2023 by El Martillo Press. He loves the outdoors and is inspired by music and books and other artistic expressions, and his children, Gabriel and Abigail. He was recently recognized as the Distinguished Faculty of the Year at Santa Ana College in 2024.

Featured Poets

Sandy Shakes is a spoken truth artist homegrown in Boyle Heights. She has shared microphones all over LA county, San Diego, New Mexico, and El Paso. She has collaborated and performed for many poetic organizations and has had her work honored in their powerful anthologies. In the last few years, she has led poetry workshops, spoken in classrooms, and has had her stories featured in up-and-coming podcasts. In 2024 she released her first poetry chapbook baptized “Scribble Scrabbles”. You can follow all her upcoming projects and performances on

Find her on Instagram! @sandyshakes_themic

Karla Cordero is the author of the debut poetry collection How To Pull Apart The Earth, a San Diego Book Award winner and a finalist for the International Latino Book Award. Her work has appeared in NPR, Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Split This Rock, The Oprah Magazine, PANK, The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 4 LatiNext Anthology, among other publications. Cordero is the recipient of the COURAGE to WRITE Writer of Note from The deGroot Foundation and the California Arts Fellowship. She is a professor of composition and creative writing at MiraCosta College and San Diego City College and the Executive Director for the non-profit art organization Glassless Minds.

Find her on Instagram! @karlaflaka13 and her website www.karlacordero.com

Gabriela Ramos is a fifteen-year-old Chicana poet, artist, and student born and raised in the Inland Empire. She has written poetry for the past 5 years and regularly performs at community spaces in San Bernardino like Creative Grounds & Barrio Fuerza. As a multimedia artist, Gabriela mixes poetry into her art pieces and aims to grow up to be an artist. Her older brother Erick and mentor Alma Rivera were big inspirations in teaching her to use writing as a form of expression.

Amanda Jade is a Chicana poet, songwriter, singer, and hip-hop artist based in the IE. She has been utilizing her gifts over the past ten years as medicine in the form of prayer songs. In her indigenous ancestral traditions as a curandera, she carries the medicine to heal with the breath and with the right ear. Amanda is the owner of Keep Your Crown Right® salon & community space located on Yuhaaviatam/Maarenga’yam land, also known as San Bernardino California, where she provides a holistic space to support BIPOC folks to reconnect to their crown & ancestral practices connected to the hair & the head. She has spoken at Cal. State Dominguez Hills on social entrepreneurship and at the Riverside Eminence Barber Academy. Her intention is to walk authentically in her medicine, sharing the healing and wisdom gained from her lived experiences, as well as the ancestral teachings received by her elders & teachers in efforts to remind others of their own unique and beautiful medicine they have to offer.

Find her on Instagram! @keepyourcrownright

Riverside County Arts & Culture Month
2025-03-06 18:00 - 2025-03-30 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Riverside Art Museum, 3425 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92501, United States
Learn how to acquire a Riverside County Arts and Culture Exploration Passport!

Discover Riverside County by obtaining an exploration pass from any Riverside County Library System branch or designated participating locations. Each spot is a distinctive treasure, and upon exploring your chosen destination, your passport will be stamped to commemorate the experience. Additionally, certain locations may host special events on specific days, offering attendees the opportunity to partake in enjoyable activities.

The Exploration Passport does not constitute as free entry ticket to participating locations; instead, it’s a lasting keepsake designed for year-round use. Refer to the Participating Locations page to access admission information for each institution.

Participating Locations

Eclipse: What's your Perspective? - Opening Reception
2025-04-03 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Riverside Art Museum, 3425 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92501, United States
Anticipating their exhibition Eclipse: What’s Your Perspective? at the Riverside Art Museum, Malik and Jonathan have much to reflect on. Their love for the city of San Bernardino led them to build a space of necessity, perseverance, and not taking no for an answer in the form of a photography studio @eclipsespaces

Jonathan: “We found ourselves in a renaissance of artists and businesses in San Bernardino and the IE in general. And I think that we started this with the intention of it being bigger than us.” – @323.raw

Malik: “I really look at what this project’s brought out of me, it’s really, really essential to even the photographer I’m becoming. And I think I wouldn’t be the photographer I’ve really been chasing the entire time if I didn’t go through this, because of the sense of Black community, the sense of business, and even how I’m navigating that world too.” – @maliklphoto

Special Limited Risograph printed posters from flier artist Gabe Stein @707.creativeLimited Risograph printed posters will be available for free during the Eclipse: What’s Your Perspective? Reception.

Hecho en Park Ave - Opening Reception
2025-04-03 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Cheech Center for Chicano Art & Culture, 3581 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside, California, 92507, United States
Join us for the opening reception of Hecho en Park Ave.

Riverside’s historic eastside neighborhood houses generations of families who migrated to this region in hopes to establish roots and legacy. As time passes and the surrounding area changes, the same journey of a combined betterment continues for many folx who move to this eastside barrio. The Eastside Arthouse, a collective of working artists and muralists, are one of those stories and in 2021, were welcomed in by the area’s locals because of the studio’s mission to bring the art of muralismo to community.

The Chicanx/a/o people of Riverside have a long history of advocacy and self-reliance as a comunidad. This group of artists reflected on the Chicanx/a/o diaspora, and found their own lived experiences as Chicanx/as/os, mirrored within its residents. Hecho En Park Avenue, manifests itself as a self portrait of both the individuals who created the artwork and la raza who contributed pieces of themselves to la cultura Chicanx/a/o that lives alongside Park Avenue.

Featured artists include Juan Navarro, Roberto Cervantes, Megan Jones, Rosy Cortez (painting), Bryan Garcia, Jonathan Godinez, Stephanie Godoy, Clarissa Cervantes, Kirsten Kamstra, Ricardo Garcia, Daniel Toledo, Estrella Martinez, e. martinez, Willis the Gorilla, Briar Rosa, Perry Picasshoe, Natali Rosas, Tine Torres, Andrea Lopez, and Michelle Espino.

Curated by Michelle Espino and Juan Navarro

This exhibition funded in part by U.S. Bank.

Bryan Garcia, Detail of Mi Barrio Lindo, 2025

First Sunday with UCR Gluck Fellows - Dada Poetry Collage
2025-04-06 01:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Riverside Art Museum, 3425 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92501, United States
Join UCR Gluck Fellows in the Olds Classroom for an engaging collaging activity! Participants will produce collage/dada poetry from the words and images cut from magazines. The prompt is to follow their intuition and discover the poet within them.

First Sunday with UCR Gluck Fellows - Calavera Mask Painting
2025-04-06 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Cheech Center for Chicano Art & Culture, 3581 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside, California, 92507, United States
This workshop begins by explaining the meaning and origins of the “Calavera” or skull. Attendees will then be guided on how to paint their masks. Those willing can choose to share photos of their masks, or photos of themselves wearing their masks, to be posted on the GLUCK and Cheech Museum’s social media platforms.

Riverside Art Market 2025
2025-04-12 10:00 - 16:00 (America/Denver) | White Park, 3936 Chestnut St, Riverside, California, 92501, United States
Saturday, April 12, 2025, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Free Admission
The Riverside Art Alliance is delighted to announce its 10th annual Riverside Art Market! The event will again be located at the historic White Park in downtown Riverside. This year’s event will feature, 100 artists and artisans, art and other activities for children, art demonstrations, entertainment, food, beer and wine, and much more. We anticipate over 4,000 visitors to this free, family-friendly, fun-filled event! All proceeds support the Riverside Art Museum; last year over $30,000 was raised to make art and culture more accessible to Inland Empire residents!
Thank you to our artists, vendors and sponsors who have participated over the years!
Event Brochure
CALL FOR ARTISTS. Applications for artist booths are now being accepted. Legacy artists can register as of November 15th, a special invitation to artists with 3 or more years participation. All other artists may register November 22nd. Early-Bird pricing for registration continues until January 1, 2024., Prices are $140 for RAM members and $160 for non-members. After January 1 2025, booth fees will be $160 for members and $180 for non-members. Applications are accepted online through March 24. There is no additional charge for selecting your specific booth or for sharing a booth. Booth locations can be selected using the online application. We will provide white E-Z UP canopies to all outside vendors (no personal E-Z UPs are allowed). E-Z UPs will be set up for all vendors by 7:30 a.m. on April 12.
Please read all attachments before filling in the Vendor Application!
Vendor Application
Vendor Waiver & Instructions
Vendor Booth Map
If you have any questions, please contact riversideartmarket@gmail.com.
BECOME A SPONSOR!
We would love for you to be a part of the excitement! ART MARKET sponsors get special treatment this year. Not only have we enhanced our signage and sponsorship acknowledgement, but we are also offering our sponsors at any level a new benefit: use of the Sponsors’ Tent, where you can relax, enjoy free refreshments, and have a front row seat to the entertainment Please click on the attached information link to find out more about our sponsorship opportunities.
Sponsor Information or click here to become a sponsor

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

BOUQUET PRESENTING SPONSOR

& James Antoyan

ROSE SPONSORKathy and David BocianKathy and Gary Christmas

TULIP SPONSORMyra AppelPam and Mark BalysGordon and Jill Bourns FamilySuzy and Gary ClemDayton and Cheryl GillelandPamela KaptainSandy Webb

HYACINTH SPONSORPat Reynolds

MARIGOLD SPONSORJohn and Kathy AllavieLucile ArntzenMichael and Diane BatesSelina and Phil BremenstuhlSandi and John FayElizabeth Lossing and William NicolettiTami and Steve MaioOivewood Memorial ParkMichelle OuelletteEmmanuelle and Morey ReynoldsRiverside East Rotary FoundationRobyn Rogers in Honor of Ronald McCaskill Kathy Wright and Dwight Tate

DAISY SPONSORLorraine and Richard AndersonTed and Linda BoeckerSharon and Cal BoothbyTeresa Chamiec and Robert GianniniAnne and Joseph Deem Doris and Jim FergusonSandra J. FergusonPatti and David FunderDebra and Jeff JohnsonPeggy LittleworthFran and Bob MoerkeNancy and Ken NollerDebby and Ken PhillipsGary RainsbargerRuth Ann Ryan and Stephen ParkerCookie SmithSue SpitzerCarole StadelbacherAthena and David WaiteMadelyn Warner and Denise Stevens

Thank you to these additional donors:Laura Baldwin Nicolette RohrPat Ryan

A Special Thanks to the City of Riverside for their Sponsorship of the 2025 Art Market – 10th Anniversary

Viva Poesia
2025-04-12 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Cheech Center for Chicano Art & Culture, 3581 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside, California, 92507, United States
Join us at The Cheech for an evening of powerful poesía co-hosted with Cultura con Llantas

Chicano art, music, and literature played a role in capturing the spirit of an entire community which propelled, nourished, and sustained the Chicano Civil Rights Movement. Artists that embraced Chicana/o identities at that time addressed pressing social justice concerns such as educational and economic inequality, farmworker rights, and other forms of state violence and oppression in the United States.

The oral tradition of spoken word in music or storytelling has been the way that our history and culture has endured and persevered. Poetry is an extension of that oral tradition and is the sister spirit of music. It gives voice to our struggles and allows us to work towards a collective consciousness for our gente as we maintain our cultural identity and fight for political power and place in an ever-changing world. Poets continue to be the voice of our community.

Co-Hosted By

Alma Rosa Azul is a Chicana spoken word poet, community organizer, and mother. She is the co-founder of Barrio Fuerza located in Downtown San Bernardino, host of Barrio Poetry Club Open Mic, and Facilitator behind Word Blossom writing hour..She considers herself a self taught and community based poet and deeply believes that poetry should belong to the poor, the everyday person, and all of humanity. She is Alma Rosa Azul. A name in three parts to braid and then tie at the end with a poem.

Featured Poets

Jag Arreola is a hip-hop artist from Fontana, California (Unsurrendered Kizh land). He is a survivor of the police retaliation & wrongful incarceration that happened to him and 7 others in San Bernardino County, dubbed the “Justice 8”. The content in his music highlights a strong commitment to sobriety, militant decolonization & the push for liberation for all marginalized peoples from a Chicano indigenous perspective.

Sammy is a Mexican-American educator, poet, spoken word artist, and zine queen from the San Gabriel Valley. She has reached many new stages with her recent comeback to poetry writing on topics such as feminism, racism, working with children, mental health, love, and heartbreak. She’s been eagerly making a name for herself by placing 1st place in both the OC Poetry Slam in October and Pomona Slam in December. Sammy is currently working on her manuscript for her debut poetry collection, Empty Fields of Sunflowers.

Angela Aguirre is a Chicana writer, speaker, and teacher from Pasadena, California. From her poetry to her podcast, she uses her unique and powerful voice to speak life into her community. With a degree in Communication Studies and Rhetoric from Cal State LA, she believes poetry is medicine. For the last ten years, she has shared that medicine at events around the country and taught writing workshops at universities, nonprofits, and detention centers. Angela hopes to inspire people, particularly young women, to find their voice and to use it. Recognized for her impactful work, she has received awards such as Woman of the Year in 2017 and the YWCA Women for Racial Justice Award in 2022. Angela has been featured by LACMA, TEDx, The Huffington Post, and The LA Times to name a few.

Erick Aguinaldo is a spoken word poet, professor A father, brother, fighter, and lover He was born in LA and raised in the IE. He has some degrees from some fancy universities but has learned the most from his community. From the walls of formal education to the forced segregation of the streets, he draws strength from the resistant and resilient. For him San Bernardino is home. He embraces the good, the bad, and the ugly. He firmly believes true power is in the people.

A Cultura Con Llantas Event

FREE EVENT – Register Here!

Sacar la Voz: An Evening with UCR Alumni Activists
2025-04-17 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Cheech Center for Chicano Art & Culture, 3581 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside, California, 92507, United States
Join us for an evening of powerful testimonies and storytelling from alumni activists challenging US immigration policies. This event will feature a book reading from Learning to Lead: Undocumented Students Mobilizing Education by Professor Jennifer R. Nájera and a panel of UC Riverside alumni. Book signing with Dr. Jennifer Najera to follow

Early bird registration is open!
2025-04-24 14:00 - 2025-05-12 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Riverside Art Museum, 3425 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92501, United States
Register today for summer art classes and camps to receive early bird, preferred pricing.

Members receive preferred pricing on art classes, workshops and camps.

Learn more about memberships here.

RCC La Casa at The Cheech
2025-05-01 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Cheech Center for Chicano Art & Culture, 3581 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside, California, 92507, United States
Join us for a night with RCC’s La Casa! Find a tabling fair with student organizations and clubs in the Jose Medina Sala. Stop by The Cheech classroom for a fun art activity for all-ages.

ArtsWalk at RAM
2025-05-01 18:00 - 21:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Riverside Art Museum, 3425 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92501, United States
Join us for May ArtsWalk as we celebrate local student artists!

The Poly High School Photography Club will showcase a selection of works from their academic year. CBU Photography students of Theology of Image Making will celebrate the presentation of their thesis work from the semester in the Taylor Gallery!

Special preview and walk-through of "To Rise Above Ruins" by artist Tamara Cedré
2025-05-01 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Riverside Art Museum, 3425 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92501, United States
No RSVP needed

UCR Gluck Fellows at The Cheech
2025-05-04 12:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Cheech Center for Chicano Art & Culture, 3581 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside, California, 92507, United States
Join UCR Gluck Fellows as they host a “Mini Cheech Exhibition” art activity!

Each participant will receive a small sheet of paper to draw their rendition of a museum artwork or, if they wish, a completely original piece. Pencils and markers will be provided. Attendees can opt to have their artwork photographed for inclusion in a digital collage exhibit, which will be shared across the Museum and GLUCK’s social networks

Puppets a la Carte at RAM
2025-05-04 13:30 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Riverside Art Museum, 3425 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92501, United States
First Sundays at RAM “Flutter with Butterflies!” Join Nicole Cloeren and Puppets a la Carte for a butterfly story, then learn a simple movement piece with butterfly puppets. This puppet play date is FREE at Riverside Art Museum, 3425 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside. 1:30 PM in the Atrium.
