Lowrider owners, designers and community members gathered in Glendale to celebrate the artstyle on wheels pioneered by the Chicano community.

“You’re in the middle of the Chicano barrio, but I don’t see a lot of Chicano art here. It’s all people from Claremont,” Frank recalled telling them. He was invited to curate a show.

Denise Sandoval, who has taught at Cal State Northridge since 2002, is perhaps the premier scholar on lowrider culture and also an exemplar of what an academic should be.

Paintings by Chicano artists, from a personal collection, on display in a museum. That sounds familiar. But this isn’t The Cheech in Riverside. Rather, it’s the Claremont Lewis Museum of Art.

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