Judithe Hernandez, an East L.A. woman who’s been making art for 50 years, is the subject of the first solo retrospective at The Cheech in Riverside. I interview her at her studio to learn about her life and career for my Wednesday column.

Side note: The museum offered to make her available on her next visit, which would be…March 14. Really? March 14? My 60th birthday? Sigh. Playing the birthday card, I instead got to interview her at her studio last Saturday. Everyone wins.