Riverside Art Museum & The Cheech

Catalogue Signing - Judithe Hernández: Beyond Myself, Somewhere, I Wait for My Arrival
2024-12-15 12:30 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cheech Marin Center, 3581 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside, California, 92507, United States
Please join us for a special catalogue signing with artist, Judithe Hernández on December 15th at 12:30PM for the opportunity to have your copy of Judithe Hernández: Beyond Myself, Somewhere, I Wait for My Arrival signed.

This event is free with admission. Catalogues are available for purchase in-store at La Tiendita.

Judithe Hernández: Beyond Myself, Somewhere, I Wait for My Arrival* is a much overdue opportunity to immerse ourselves in the world and art of Judithe Hernández. The catalogue accompanies the first major retrospective and comprehensive evaluation of her fifty-year career

Shipping Available

The Cheech is excited to announce that Judithe Hernández: Beyond Myself, Somewhere, I Wait for My Arrival is now available for domestic shipping (excl. AK and HI) for a fee of $10.00. Judithe Hernández: Beyond Myself, Somewhere, I Wait for My Arrival is expected to arrive at The Cheech in the coming days, just in time for the holidays

Free Admission – First Thursday of every month during Riverside ArtsWalk
2025-01-02 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-02-06 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-03-06 18:00 - 21:00, 2025-04-03 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

Free Admission - First Sunday of every month
2025-01-05 12:00 - 17:00, 2025-02-02 12:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Riverside Art Museum + The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, 3425 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, California
First Sundays is a community day in the arts & culture district of downtown Riverside.

Featuring activities for all-ages, the event takes place every first Sunday of the month from 1 to 4 p.m.

As part of First 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.

Dia de Los Reyes Magos
2025-01-05 13:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California
Riverside Art Museum (Atrium & Lobby)

Join us as we celebrate Dia de Los Reyes Magos at Riverside Art Museum. Mr. Blue and Cultura con Llantas are back, bringing the tamales, pan dulce, chocolate Mexicano, Rosca de Reyes, and entertainment! This event is absolutely FREE. Invite your loved ones and friends!

Schedule of Events

1:00 PM: Program begins

1:15 PM – 1:45 PM: David Bosquez

2:00 PM – 2:15 PM: Rubidoux High School Ballet Folklórico

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM: Grupo Axolotl

3:15 PM – 3:30 PM: Perris Community Ballet Folklórico

3:45 PM – 4:15 PM: David Bosquez

Thank you sponsors: Patricia Reynolds with Los Cinco attorneys Luis Aguilar, Richard Carnero, Jorge C. Hernández, Russell Jauregui, and Luis Lopez.

Gluck Fellows Art Project & Digital Exhibition (Stebler Studio)

Each participant will receive a small canvas to draw their rendition of a museum artwork or create a completely original piece. Paint 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 social networks of the Rio Junto art collective, the UCR Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts, and the Riverside Art Museum.

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.

I Love Lupe - Screening
2025-01-26 13:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cheech Marin Center, 3581 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside, California, 92507, United States
I Love Lupe documents the first and only roundtable discussion between Chicanx artists Ester Hernandez, Yolanda Lopez and Alma Lopez. Artists present and discuss their feminists revisionists version of the cultural icon, the Virgin of Guadalupe and the controversies encountered.

I Love Lupe is a 46 minute video first published as a visual chapter in the book titled Our Lady of Controversy: Alma Lopez’s “Irreverent” Apparition edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Alma Lopez.Texas: University of Texas Press, 2011. ISBN-13 : 978-0292719927. More information at almalopez.com.

Credits: Alma Lopez copyright 2011

Images featured are from I Love Lupe.

Mini Piñatas with UCR GLUCK Fellows
2025-02-02 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Cheech Marin Center, 3581 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside, California, 92507, United States
Join UCR GLUCK fellows Jo and Nico to paint a mini piñata with a surprise gift inside! This activity is for all-ages.

Come and learn about the history, origin, and symbolism of piñatas and their widespread use in Latin American communities.

“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”

First Sunday at RAM
2025-02-02 13:00 - 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Riverside Art Museum, 3425 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92501, United States
Join Isaias Rodriguez @littlepinatamaker on the RAM Rooftop for a piñata art project! Enjoy music from DJ Aztecparrot.

UCR GLUCK Fellows will host a tea coaster art activity using yarn and other recycled materials. Find them in the RAM art classroom!

Meet Andrew K. Thompson, the artist behind The Pleasure of Being Wrong exhibition. Thompson will take visitors through his artistic process and answer any questions! Join Thompson at 1PM and 3PM for a tour.

The Pleasure of Being Wrong

Soar with Dragons!
2025-02-02 13:30 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Riverside Art Museum, 3425 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92501, United States
On Sunday, February 2, at 1:30 PM, join Inlandia and Riverside Art Museum for a celebration of Lunar New Year with puppeteer Nicole Cloeren and Puppets a la Carte. The presentation includes story time, interactive participation, and your help in bringing the giant dragon puppet to life outdoors. Join us for this fun, free, family-friendly event!Nicole B. Cloeren is the founder and creative director of Puppets a la Carte where she feeds the imagination through hands-on puppeteering for all ages. Emphasizing play and techniques of improvisation, she creates a space of surprise and wonder in which we all learn from one another through puppetry arts. She leads a Youth Puppet Club, works in the RUSD after school programs, and partners with various artists and organizations in the Inland Empire. She holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education and an MA in American Studies from The College of William & Mary and a BA in English from The College of the Holy Cross. Her puppets go everywhere Nicole likes to go including coffee shops, museums, places with music & dance, camping in the desert, street festivals, and a seat next to you!

Saltwater: A Conversation with WildSeeds
2025-02-02 15:00 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Riverside Art Museum, 3425 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA, 92501, United States
From 3PM to 4:30PM, meet the poets behind the Wild Seed Retreat and Saltwater Anthology. In this reading and conversation Ginger Galloway and Nikia Chaney will talk about how this program came together, share poems, and ideas on the creation for more spaces for black creatives.

Learn more about Wild Seeds on the Beach at RAM

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.

Click here to download the application!Download

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 (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

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.
