In Chicano communities across the United States, the term rasquache has been reclaimed from a slur to a badge of pride, expressing a sensibility—rasquachismo—characterized by inventiveness and creativity, often in response to material limitations. As an art collector, Cheech Marin has celebrated this attitude as integral to his Chicano identity, and it figures prominently in the new Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in Riverside. For this program, Cheech will be in conversation with Josh T Franco, collector at large at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art.
This program is produced in association with No Prior Art: Illustrations of Invention, an exhibition and citywide program series on invention and part of Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science…..