On-going Events
Cheech Collects 4, The Cheech Center for Chicano Art and Culture, Riverside, CA. Exhibit opens June 7, 2025 and runs 6 months
Cheech Collects 4. The Cheech Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Museum (Riverside, CA). Group Show - 40 artists over 100 pieces. Margaret’ FIRE PAINTINGS and 2 DOG/BITCH prints from the mid-1980’s in Exhibit. Opens June 7, 2025, Runs 6 months.. Margaret’s work has been prominently shown in all four iteration of “Cheech Collects” at the Cheech Center.
Cheech Collects 4. The Cheech Center for Chicano Art and Culture of the Riverside Museum (Riverside, CA). Margaret stands in front of her “Fire Wall” at the Cheech, June 2025
Artists, Community and the Brockman Gallery in Los Angeles. The Brockman Gallery is/was Los Angeles’ oldest black-owned art gallery. Created as a place for black and people of color to exhibit their work. In 1986 Margaret Garcia and artist Gilbert (Magu) Lujan, were invited to exhibit art the gallery. This museum retrospective was organized by LACMA and three regional museums. Two of Margaret’s serigraph prints from that 1986 exhibit “Magu y Maguey” are in LACMA’s permanent collection and are on display in this exhibit.
Margaret at ESMoA and a sample of her Stamp Project, Creating Cultural Currency (2010) exhibit in background. 2025
Up -Coming Events
A major Xicana / Chicana exhibit opens on June 20, 2025, at the California Center for the Arts in Escondido, CA. The Xicana! San Diego exhibit brings together over 100 artists from both Los Angeles and San Diego to celebrate Chicana art this landmark exhibit.
This exhibit features the Stamp Project, Creating Cultural Currency, a print collaboration created by Margaret Garcia in 2010 of over 90 artists who, in teams, produced over 110 prints.
In addition to the prints, Margaret will be exhibiting portraits of her community from her Un Nuevo Mestizaje (the New Mixture) series as well several large landscapes and portraits as well as the painting Chilis en Enogado (Chilis and Pomegranates), shown above, from Margaret’s “Abundance” series.
Margaret’s upcoming Solo Show at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA
Recent Past Events
Margaret spoke about her serigraph prints in the museum collection in a special study day for the museum.
