Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel

At SITE Santa Fe, Kita is the director of development an Grachos the executive director. Matthew talks with Kita and Grachos about all the shows and talks coming up at SITE SANTA FE, as well as Robert Smithson and Teresita Fernandez show that has just opened there. They also talk about the Jeffrey Gibson show at the Venice Biennale,  fundraising, the joys of membership, and running a big contempor...

Bob Haozous is a sculptor, living here in Santa Fe, and has been making his work for more than 50 years. Bob chats in his studio with Matthew about culture, knowledge, craft, relationship, money, meaning, messengers, censorship, and art.

Rapheal Begay is a Diné photographer based in Window Rock. He talks with Matthew about ALL REZ, an exhibition of his photos, traveling across the Navajo Nation with Axle Contemporary and the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, during the month of June- and coming to Santa Fe from June 27-30. They also discuss language, museums, sheep, and photography.

Israel Haros Lopez talks with Matthew about the Barrio Art School, Alas de Agua, Barrio Universe City, making art, working with people, education, opportunities, and Santa Fe.

Artists Joe David (Nuu-chah-nulth) and Francesco Siqueiros talk with Matthew Chase-Daniel about their exhibition at the Yuma Art Center, their youth in Yuma, early exposure to art in their lives, and the cultural values that inspire the work they do.

Thirty years ago photographer David Scheinbaum accompanied his parents on a trip back to the beaches of Normandy where his father had been part of the Normandy Invasion during WWII fifty years before, Scheinbaum recorded the experience in photographs and journals, and was transformed by a new understanding of his father. Scheinbaum and NM Military Museum director Laureta Huit discuss the upcoming...

Andrew Lovato is the City Historian and chair of the Arts Commission for the City of Santa Fe. He talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about history, stories, time, culture, listening, tourism, architecture and art.

Avra Leodas talks with Matthew about the Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener’s Fair (May 11th) and all that is happening there and what the Master Gardeners do: Plant sale, tool sale, pest questions answered, composting, soil health, demonstration gardens, education, music, food, and more great stuff like that.

Artist Brian Fleetwood (Mvskoke) talks with Matthew about his artist-in residence project, Place/Holding, with the O’Keeffe Museum’s Art to G.O. and Axle Contemporary.  The conversation touches on how jewelry and adornment can mediate between our bodies and the rest of the world around us, virology, immunity, cultural wisdom, plastic recycling, Oklahoma and Georgia, and setting processes in motion...

Michelle Korte and Lena Weiss of Herstory Printmaking Collective talk with Matthew about their Women of The Rails project which they’ll be pasting up in the Santa Fe Railyard on April 20th, as part of the Railyard Art Project. They elucidate some of the history and personalities involved with railroads in America from the mid 1800s to the present.

In the late 1980s, Chip Thomas (jetsonorama) moved to a rural area of the Navajo Nation to work as a physician in a health clinic. He hoped to manage to stay for four years, and fell in love with the land and the people and the culture and stayed for 36 years. Since 2009, he has been installing large-scale photos, pasted onto mostly abandoned buildings along the roadsides on the Navajo Nation, and...

Charine Pilar Gonzales is a filmmaker from San Ildefonso Pueblo. She talks about Pueblo storytelling, clay traditions and film, family, community, recent projects and awards, her film River Bank (Po-Kehgeh) upcoming projects, and Sundance.

John Brandi is a poet, essayist and painter. He has lived in New Mexico since 1971. His newest book, A Luminous Uplift: Landscape and Memoir is a collection of writings that explore land, light, culture, and spirit in his experiences across the planet, including Ecuador, Southern California, India, Bali, and Northern New Mexico. Matthew has a conversation with John by the wood stove, in John’s hom...

Jesse Wilson talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about SAFE HAVEN, her art installation at Axle Contemporary, and Ogres, mythology, feelings, winter, warmth, life choices, solitude, art and business, creative practice, expression, and  integrity.

The Aunties: Women of the White Shell Water Place features 3 local indigenous women speaking and sharing stories of place, community, and culture. Host Matthew Chase-Daniel talks with 2 of the Aunties, Nora Naranjo Morse (Kha’p’o Owenge (Santa Clara Pueblo)) and Deborah Jackson Taffa (Quechan (Kwatsáan)/ Laguna), along with the performance’s director Kendra Mylnechuck Potter (Lummi). They talk abo...

b brown has been making ceramics for 30 years but is just now beginning to exhibit her work. Much of what came out of her kiln in the past was immediately destroyed by the artist herself. The process of working for her has been one of searching, questioning, and learning. Now brown is exhibiting her latest work of sculptural ceramics at Hecho a Mano Gallery inn Santa Fe (downtown on Palace Ave.) b...

Johnson is the director of the Santa Fe Arts and Culture Department. She talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about the various funding and support programs that the department offers as well as the Poet Laureate and City Historian programs. They also talk about her novel, Stray City, and how it adresses concepts of family and community, and how that has changed over the years. They also talk abou...

Matthew talks with Fricke about her new book, As We See It, published by UNM Press. The book centers the voices of ten Native American Photographers, Jamison Chās Banks, Anna Hoover, Tom Jones, Larry McNeil, Shelley Niro, Wendy Red Star, Beverly R. Singer, Matika Wilbur,  William Wilson, and Tiffiney Yazzie. They also talk about her work running Gallery Hozhó in Albuquerque, humor in art, and an u...

Danny Lyon has been a force in the world of photography for sixty years. In the early 1960s he was the staff photographer for SNCC, and has created countess series of photos and films since that time, across the US and in Haiti, Mexico, and Columbia. He chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about his upcoming memoir, This is My Life I'm Talking About, the film The Bikeriders (based on his book), hi...

Blackhorse Lowe talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about writing and directing films and television, bringing his Navajo culture to light through his films, language, insight, family teachings, and his uncle’s vast collection of films and music that influenced him as a teenager in rural Northwestern New Mexico.

Ileana Alarcón is a Columbian-American artist currently working with paper pulp to create sculptures which are both familiar and unexpected. A bench manages  invokes a giraffe, a horse and a shower. Alarcón feels most comfortable in naturally formed spaces free from the right angles that dominate our living spaces. The works are inspired by natural forms and earthen architecture, combined with bri...

Lucy Lippard At age 86, Lucy Lippard is as busy, witty, and thoughtful as ever. She chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about her new non-memoir (her 27th book), learning to ride horses on branches of Maine oaks, collaboration, multiculturalism, place, relationships, work, climate, academia, and Patsy Montana.

Nicholas Galanin on Coffee and Culture Nicholas Galanin/Yéil Ya-Tseen (Lingit/Unangax̂) is a multidisciplinary artist from Sitka Alaska whose work is made in relation to culture, identity, and land. He works in a wide variety of materials, in varying scales and wide-ranging locations. He speaks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about his upcoming exhibition at SITE Santa Fe, Land Back, studying in Lo...

New Mexico Museum of Art-Vladem Contemporary opened in 2023 with Shadow and Light. Listen to a conversation with Christian Waguespack (Director of Curatorial Affairs), Katie Doyle (Assistant Curator), and the new Curator of Contemporary Art, Alexandra Terry. With host Matthew Chase-Daniel, they discuss the new building, the new exhibition, the Artist-in-Residence program, the Window Box, The Digit...

August Muth and host Matthew Chase-Daniel talk about holograms, light, sound, the universe, reproduction of moments in time in holography and photography, the 4th dimension, beautiful colors of gas lasers, the Light and Shadow exhibition at the Vladem Museum, wavelengths, and Bruce Nauman’s DNA.