Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel

Erica Lord (Athabaskan, Iñupiat, Finnish, Swedish, Japanese, English) talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about ethnicity and culture, living in new places with new norms, using her body as a reference point for making art about the world, objects and performance, Nanook of the North, bead weaving, diabetes, how we look to others, and how to follow our instincts to make heartfelt art in a challen...

A rare repeat guest on the show, David Horvitz (artist, friend, and the face of mood disorder) walks the 7th Avenue Garden in Los Angeles with host Matthew Chase-Daniel to talk about his works in Reclaiming the Future at the Vladem Contemporary Museum in Santa Fe as well as his Wikipedia-insertion artworks, the earth and the stars, Sayre Gomez, Mission Burritos, volunteer plants in empty lots and...

Santa Fe Mayor Michael Garcia invites host Matthew Chase-Daniel into his office in City Hall where they chat about his goals as Mayor, our arts economy, local cultural values, tourism, the possible future of the Warehouse 21 building, the Midtown Campus, Growth, Water, affordable housing, the hunger among visitors to participate in authentic experiences that don’t exist elsewhere, and and how it i...

Imamura chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about her artwork, which draws upon techniques and ideas learned at the Institute of American Indian Arts where she was a student, studying bead work with Terri Greeves over 20 years ago. Raised in Japan, Imamura was drawn to the land and culture of New Mexico from a young age and worked to make the journey here. Now back in Japan, her artwork is rich with t...

Lehuauakea (Kanaka ʻŌiwi) discusses her work in Reclaiming the Future at The NMMA-Vladem Museum, cultural heritage, Hawai’i, and kapa.

Curator Machiko Harada talk with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about Reclaiming the Future, the big exhibition she has put together at The New Mexico Museum of Art-Vladem Contemporary. The ten Japanese and Japanese-American artists explore themes related to the detention camps (including four in New Mexico) where thousands of members of Japanese communities in the U.S. were incarcerated during WWII.

Venancio Aragon and Chiara Giovando join host Matthew Chase-Daniel at ICA Santa Fe to talk about Woven Futures, Unbound Patterns: Contemporary Diné Weaving, an exhibition happening there, created by Aragon. They discus the wide variety of forms in Diné (Navajo) weaving, the resurgence of old forms that have existed but been less seen by market-driven collectors and promoters in the past 150 years....

Sbarge talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about her new body of work, Antelope Island, the Great Salt Lake, Cyanotypes, hybrid creatures, adaptation and resilience, arts residencies, and cyanotypes.

Lambright talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about her paintings, and her lifelong passion for making art, from her childhood in Russia to her life in the deserts of New Mexico. They talk about materials, making and preparing panels and paints and how that grounds us in our practice, about light and life, and how painting helps us speak things we may not be able to say.

Nabhan chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about his work in the deserts of the Southwest over the past 40+ years, his newest book, communication through smell, Quitobaquito Spring, the border wall, holobionts, Nanao Sakaki, ecology, Neurodivergence, and the importance of life in community in our human and more-than-human world.

On the approach of his 90th birthday, Loeffler chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about his life work, as a jazz trumpeter, environmental activist, “aural historian,” author, folklorist, student of culture and Nature, and thinker.

Arthur Sze was just appointed to his second term as U.S. Poet Laureate. He speaks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about his new book about translation Transient Worlds, and about blurring the boundaries between writing and reading, making poetry less intimidating, the way translations may change over time, and the joys to be found in language.

Candice Hopkins (citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation) has curated Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969 (now at SITE), inspired by two events from 1969, the publication of “Indian Theatre: An Artistic Experiment in Progress”, and the occupation of Alcatraz Island. She talks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about the show, history, representation, humor, and visual...

Lynn Adler and Bill Shapiro Lynn Adler spent time in the early 1970s in Petaca, a small village in Northern New Mexico. She photographed her transplant counter-culture friends, and the long-standing local community.  Now more than 50 years later, she and (former LIFE magazine editor) Bill Shapiro have put together a book of the photos and accompanying writings. The photos are being shown in an exh...

Back on the show is Brian Vallo (Acoma) who has worked with Acoma potters to together curate an exhibition at the Museum of International Folk Art of figural work depicting humans and animals. The show draws from MoIFA’s ccollection, from other collections, and several commissioned works. He talk with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about the show, and a bit about some of his other work, repatriation th...

Benson, an artist and writer here in Santa Fe chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about speaking in public, the hot new thing, the non-commercial art world, translucent ocean waves in the desert, avoiding formulaic work, supporting serious artists in Santa Fe, the invention of photography, writing about art as an artist, good and evil, greed, fear, and The Iroquois Confederacy.

Cross chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about her upcoming installation of life-size woodblock prints of New Mexico wildlife in the Santa Fe Railyard Park. They talk about varieties of plywood, wheatpasting, printmaking, Maine, Georgia O’Keeffe, looking up at trees in the night, and  artisanal cheese-making.

Kaela Waldstein moved to Santa Fe eight years ago to follow a dream of making films about artists. With fresh eyes in a new place, she found inspiration, energy, and inspiring challenges. Working largely alone, she has made numerous documentary films about many of the compelling artists working here in Santa Fe. She chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about methods, techniques, approaches, and in...

Hudson (Tlingit, Filipino, German, English) chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about blues embedded in art practice, growing up with artist parents, pre-capitalist life ways, generosity, harmony, Tlingit formline design, aesthetics, and the differences between the seasonal life of Alaska and that of the Southwest.

Kirby (Tortugas) chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about bees: the many varieties of bees. There are many species, but also great variation within species. Honey and other bee products are used traditionally not only for sweetness, but also as varnishes, lubricants, medicine, and antiseptic dressings and salves.  Bees, bees, bees. There is much to learn from bees, and Kirby brings an awareness...

Geoffrey Gorman Gorman chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about art galleries in Santa Fe in the 1980s and 90s, and how that world has changed, about sharing knowledge with other artists, about birds and raccoons we have each known, about a shared wonder of and appreciation for the natural world, and about the spirit of old materials, and how he incorporates those materials into artwork.

A bit of an inversion this week. Artist Janice Wall interviews Matthew Chase-Daniel (instead of the other way around). They talk about making art in collaboration with other people, growing up in the unique culture of your own family, the joy of sunlight and ice crystals, and how everyone is interesting.

Jade Begay (Tesuque Pueblo/Diné), works at the intersections of Indigenous rights and climate and environmental justice, shaping national and international policy. Jade has worked with Indigenous-led organizations and Tribes from the Amazon to the Arctic to advance Indigenous-led solutions and self-determination through advocacy campaigns, research, storytelling and narrative strategies. Her new p...

Weiss chats from his Santa Monica California home with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about Mice on Crack, Beaver Shot, Prometheus, the Garden, and Old News, a daily email he’s been sending out to a growing group of people every day for the past 25 years. Weiss sees his art as a subtractive process rather than additive, something he honed as a photographer, and now brings forth into other artforms.

Yuki Murata chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about art, feet on the ground, Iceland, Svalbard, Volcanoes, Japan, slip-casting porcelain, carrying canvases through the landscape, the solidity of a square, and control and surrender.