Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel

Wendy Johnson chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about her new book, Kinship Medicine, and themes of preserving and creating community, the practice of medicine, relationships with other humans, animals, and plants, and visioning a way forward for thriving in health and spirit in our time.

Tonya talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about the upcoming exhibition by Nadya Tolokonnikova at Turner Carrol Gallery in Santa Fe, as well as Tonya’s approach to art-making and her recent durational performance at MOCA in L.A. which was shut down because the police state came to the neighborhood. Also presented are some excerpts from some of the artist’s recordings from her own work and as part...

We5 is an ad-hoc group of five visual artists who are participating in the Santa Fe Studio tour, Paula Roland, Gina Telcocci, Linda Ingraham, Diane Rolnick, and Robert Wilhelm. Three of the artists visit with host Matthew Chase-Daniel to talk about the joys of visiting an artist’s studio, the relation between art and nature, hiking the spiny Organ Mountains, swamps and seas, and the resilience of...

CENTER has a new photography gallery space in Santa Fe and the inaugural exhibition is being co-curated by Mary Anne Redding. She has long involvement with CENTER and is senior curator at The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts in North Carolina. Rubenstein is one of four artists in the exhibition. All four are past CENTER awardees and explore issues of the nuclear weapons industry, including scien...

Jennifer Schlesinger and Jennifer DeCarlo The Jennifers are both gallerists and curators. They discuss the exhibition Möbius, by Luis González Palma, on view at Schlesinger’s Obscura Gallery in Santa Fe. Luis González Palma is a Guatemalan artist/photographer, living now in Argentina. His works address identity, sorrow, trauma, and beauty. His current project- Möbius- mixes figuration and abstract...

Amber Dawn Bear Robe chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about Native Fashion Week Santa Fe, taking place all over the Railyard from May 8-11. The 4-day series of events includes talks, runway shows, shopping, and more. This is the first year of Bear Robe’s new project and she brings many years of experience in curating shows of Native Fashion and Arts. Come by and check out Orlando Dugi, Doug Miles,...

Banks and Chase-Daniel talk on and on about dinosaurs, ostrich eggs, deep time, fossils, Georgia O’Keeffe, bomb shelters, archeological digs, paleontology, and inspirations for Banks’ upcoming exhibition, Species Pending, at Axle Contemporary, part of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s Mobile Artist in Residency program.

Levy and Watts chat with Matthew about Levy’s upcoming artwork, Missing Waters, which will be created by a group of volunteers in the Railyard Park in late April. They also talk about water, control and freedom, beavers, rain, the origin of the word “thalweg,” if whirlpools reverse direction in the southern hemisphere, Watts’ eoartspace organization, and ephemeral art.

For the past nine years, Rose Eason has been the Executive Director for GallupARTS, tirelessly organizing for the arts and the community of McKinley County. She chats with Chase-Daniel about the upcoming (March 29) opening celebration  of the Gallup New Deal Art Virtual Museum, a project conceived in 2017 and coming to fruition now. They also briefly talk about Creative West, The Creative Industri...

Inga Hendrickson chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about biological processes, color saturation, sewing fruit, motherhood, motivations and inspirations, cities and towns, The physicality of sculpture, and her exhibition at Axle Contemporary, These Cracks Weep.

Pando Speer and Dain Daller are an artist couple living one the land near Abiquiu and El Rito. They moved to New Mexico 15 years ago and learned to weave here at the Espanola Valley Fiber Arts Center. They show and sell their weavings as Warp Zone and travel the world to learn and share. They also built their own home and studio, an Earthship. They talk with Matthew Chase-Daniel about weaving, bui...

Artist James Gould chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about SPRICKLE, his new sculpture just installed in the Railyard Park, about, the balance between control and freedom, about inspirations, about the benefits of age, about the Erie Canal, and about his fathers collection of old boards.

Kyle Paoletta’s new book, American Oasis, is a deep dive into the history of Southwestern cities, including Albuquerque, Phoenix, Tucson, El Paso, and Las Vegas. Paoletta helps us to learn from the past to help us prepare for the future of the Southwest and elsewhere as water resources evaporate and populations grow in a fragile environment. He chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about the enviro...

Hills Snyder comes up to Santa Fe from Magdalena for a visit at Phil Space with Matthew and James Hart. Together they discuss Snyder’s exhibition that is up now and through the end of January, as well as the backroad travels that led to his search for a portrait of America. Hart discusses the origins of Phil Space, and each guest plays one of their songs for us.

    Roxanne Swentzell (Santa Clara Pueblo) is an accomplished artist who has communicated with the world through her sculptures for all of her life.  Roxanne and Matthew chat about pack rats and squash bugs, pumice and cement, building sculpture with unfired locally-sourced clays, making work in community, art, permaculture, and more, while drinking coffee and eating grapefruit and apples.

Salavon chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about some of the artworks he has made in the last three decades, and his upcoming exhibition at Tai Modern in Santa Fe. The discussion touches on big data, John Cage, the small and personal view and its intersection with  large cultural phenomena, both the good and the scary parts of Artificial Intelligence, and the value of looking at art in-person.

Erika Wanenmacher chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about what Time Travel feels like, sometimes, her big exhibition at SITE SANTA FE. They touch on self-portraiture, magic, Babbitt’s Atom, burning stick sculptures, sound, trail cameras, thrift stores, and the iridescent interference mineral pigments that accumulate on old glass buried in the earth.

A panel talk with Autumn Dawn Gomez, Myrriah Gómez, PhD, and Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez, M.A., moderated by Christina M. Castro, PhD). This panel discussed the power of art, matriarchy, pueblo values, capitalism, and Los Alamos Nuclear weapons production. November 3rd, 2024, at The Lena Wall, 1805 Second Street, Santa Fe, Oga Po'geh, New Mexico.

Duke chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about his exhibition at SITE Santa Fe, making camera lenses out of compressed ice harvested from glaciers near Svalbard, Climate Change, Fire and Ice, The IceCube Particle Astrophysics Centers telescope made from sensors embedded in a cubic kilometer of ice in Antartica, and the deep time revealed to us by ice cores.

Dunnill and Lopez talk with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about the process of co-curating the Broken Boxes exhibition at the Albuquerque Museum. In Dunnill’s Broken Boxes podcast, in the exhibition, and in the accompanying book, the curators collaborate with the artists to assemble and reflect a community and to explore the artistic process, the realities of working as an artist in the world, and the...

Robert King (Choctaw) is a ceramic artist and owner-director of Duende Gallery in Galisteo. Over the course of the last four years he has transitioned from working as a physician in Oklahoma to working as a full-time artist in the high desert of New Mexico. His vessels are built on a wheel, and by hand primarily from clays and minerals he collects on the lands near his home. His ceramic practice i...

Raised in Los Angeles, Shayla Blatchford came to New Mexico to attend the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, and ended up staying in Santa Fe. From her base here she has spent years exploring her heritage on the Navajo Nation and working as an artist and activist addressing the implications of the historical and ongoing issues presented by Uranium mining on the Navajo Nation through her Anti-U...

Tony Abeyta and Chiara Giovando talk about the desire to collect things, including art; the exhibition up now at Santa Fe Institute of Contemporary Art of selections from Tony’s collections; What ICA is, and what its role can be in Santa Fe; and the roles of artists to help others see and serve their communities.

Ortman talks about the violin as an extension of her body, the differences between using words and making sounds, how New York skies remind her of the desert, collaboration and solitude, traveling and staying home, the vibrancy of the city, the beauty of her 4-track Tascam recorder, and her upcoming performances in Santa Fe.

Larry McNeil (Tlingit) has deep ties to New Mexico and began his career as a photographer here in 1977 with his “Real Indians” image, which like much of his work is both poignant and humorous. McNeil chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about his upcoming exhibition at Foto Forum, his approaches to his work, the blank page, journaling, lithography, photographic processes, and teaching.