AmericaJR’s Jason Rzucidlo recently visited The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in Riverside, Calif. In this gallery, you’ll see photos from the exhibit “MexiCali Biennial: Art, Action, Exchanges,” an exhibition of artworks and ephemera that chronicle the history of the MexiCali Biennial from 2006 to the present. The biblical reference of a “land of milk and honey” first became associated with California as a tool for promoting the state as a land of opportunity; a destination for those in search of a better way of life – a terra firma that would provide sustenance and abundance. This boosterism also served as an ethos that fueled “Manifest Destiny” and resulted in land grabs, ecological destruction, and social injustices.This exhibition features artists’ views of multi-layered topics associated with agriculture including cultural relationships to food, associations with identity and place, and historical and political concerns.
President George W. Bush 
“Airmail: 100 Letters from Mexicali to Los Angeles” 
“Before the Sixth Sun: A Codex For Our Children” 
“Destination Unknown, Mexico and California” by Melora Garcia 
“Assorted Works on Paper, 1950s-1980s” by Domingo Ulloa 
“Oranges + Brown Labor = Exploitation” by William Camargo 
“FIELD TRIP” by Fernando Corona 
“SEMILLAS PARA TODXS: Seeds For Everyone” by Emily C-D 
“Pickers & Packers” by Juan Delgado and Thomas McGovern
Visit The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum is located at 3581 Mission Inn Ave., Riverside, CA, 92501, on the corner of Mission Inn Ave. and Orange St. For tickets and more info, go to: https://riversideartmuseum.org/visit/the-cheech-marin-center-for-chicano-art-culture/