At The Cheech: In Times Of Trouble, Arts Gives Voice To The Misrepresented

header featuring art from the cheech marin center for chicano art

The paintings at The Cheech Marin Center For Chicano Art And Culture celebrate family, they celebrate neighborhoods, and they place faith and history into contemporary settings that bring them into the light.
(Header image features art by Frank Romero, Jaylen Pigford, Josué Ramírez and Cande Aguilar.)

Reasons For Art: Elucidation

Walking down Hollywood Blvd on any given day or night, you usually find dozens of abandoned, neglected souls. The average suburbanite might cringe at the smell, the horrid display of emotional poverty. What might our reaction to Vincent Van Gogh have been, particularly if we had not understood or viewed his art?

Walking down Hollywood Blvd on any given day or night, you usually find dozens of abandoned, neglected souls. The average suburbanite might cringe at the smell, the horrid display of emotional poverty. What might our reaction to Vincent Van Gogh have been, particularly if we had not understood or viewed his art?