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210.599.0045
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Clear Channel Exhibitions
4714 Industry Park Dr.
San Antonio, TX, 78218
Office: 210.599.0045
Fax: 210.590.1071
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EXHIBIT COLLABORATORS
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Cheech Marin
Cheech Marin, the visionary behind the exhibit, is a third-generation Mexican American who holds one of the world's largest private collections of Chicano art. The recipient of the 1999 National Council of La Raza Kraft Foods Alma Community Service Award and the 2000 Imagen Foundation's Creative Achievement Award, Marin is renowned for his three decades of work as a comedian, film actor, director, writer, musician and actor.
Cheech not only attracts fans through his comedy, films and drama series; he is also quite popular with kids for his work in children's music and animation. In 1997 he released his first bilingual children's album titled "My Name is Cheech, The School Bus Driver," the year's number-one selling children's album in the country. As a result of the phenomenal success of this album, he is now preparing to release a second bilingual record titled, "My Name is Cheech, The School Bus Driver - Coast to Coast."
Cheech is extremely passionate about the Chicano community and says of the CHICANO exhibits, "It will be a rip-roaring party and everyone is invited."
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
Hispanic Scholarship Fund President and CEO Sara Martinez-Tucker is nationally renowned as an expert resource on Hispanics in education. The organization she leads is respected as the premier scholarship fund serving Hispanic Americans and has awarded more than $58 million in scholarships to more than 45,000 Hispanic students since its inception in 1975.
For the 2000 - 2001 academic year alone, HSF awarded more than $11.7 million in scholarships to nearly 5,000 students. The organization also recently established the Cheech Marin Endowed Scholarship Fund, which will benefit Latino college students in the San Francisco Bay area.
The CHICANO exhibit will award 45 (three per host city) scholarships to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund on behalf of its corporate sponsors.
Clear Channel Exhibitions
Clear Channel Exhibitions, based in San Antonio, Texas, which developed and produced the exhibit, is managing the five-year, 15-city tour. A world leader in providing high quality, state-of-the-art, family educational experiences, Clear Channel Exhibitions serves as a major development partner to more than 200 leading museums and research institutions. Clear Channel Exhibitions is proud to work with Fortune 500 corporations such as Pfizer Inc, IBM, TIME, and others to bring blockbuster exhibits and events to people around the globe. Some of the best-known and best-attended interactive exhibits in the U.S. have been mounted and toured by Clear Channel Exhibitions. Among them are "Masters of the Night," "Earthquest," "Extreme Deep," "Microbes," "Robot Zoo" and "Theme Park." More than 60 million people worldwide have enjoyed a Clear Channel Exhibitions experience at one point or another.
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