Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel

Kathleen McCloud is an artist who grows and forages plants to process for dyes and pigments in her current body of work at GF Contemporary. She uses, painting, collage, and other techniques to produce her mixed media work. She and Matthew Chase-Daniel talk about her process, photography, Emily Dickinson, Van Morrison, grids, rhythm, and the transitory impermanence of things and lives.

Shapland’s newest book, Thin Skin, is a collection of essays which explore many diverse themes but are all tied together through concepts of both vulnerability and interconnectedness.  Chase-Daniel and Shapland discuss the book and moths, vegetarianism, art, responsibility, shopping, capitalism, buddhism, and the nuclear weapons complex in New Mexico.

Bryson talks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about collaborations in art and farming with people and non-human beings, about ephemeral art in a time of climate crisis, about compost and decay as a springboard for life, and about her work both at Axle Contemporary’s Fibrous Otherworlds exhibition and on the Lena Wall.

Cody chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel in Pinehill/Ramah about his art, weaving as a way to overcome things that get in our way, healing, focus, living a life within the four sacred mountains, night skies, Changing Woman, depictions of everyday life, and bringing light to our struggles. His weavings will be featured in Fibrous Otherworlds at Axle Contemporary.

Judy Tuwaletstiwa talks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about genesis, genius, frogs, pollywogs, polio, teaching, learning, card tricks, death, heart, her new book made in collaboration with her grandson, TikTok, and her exhibition at Pie Projects.

Fatima Ronquillo is a self-taught Philippines-born painter who has been living and working in Santa Fe for the past fifteen years. She exhibits her work at Meyer Gallery on Canyon Road, and will have a solo exhibition at the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos from June 30-September 24. Ronquillo speaks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about the mixture of sharp details with soft faces in her painting,...

Sara Daniele Rivera is a poet, novelist, translator, artist, and educator from Albuquerque. She speaks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about her work, about her big first book award from the Academy of American Poets, about grief and deserts, about Project Interchange with Friends of the Orphan Signs, and about Moby Dick and detailed descriptions of worlds. And she reads poems.

Selections from a Roundtable Discussion from Tuesday, August 8th, 2023 at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, NM in conjunction with Meridel Rubenstein's Critical Mass exhibition. With Alicia Inez Guzman, Roshi Joan Halifax, Josie Lopez, Meridel Rubenstein, Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez, and Rebecca Solnit. Moderated by Tonya Turner Carroll. Audio is not great, apologies. Info on the speakers h...

Adam Jonas Horowitz on Coffee and Culture Horowitz is a filmmaker, artist, journalist, and activist who works to try to improve the condition of the world. He speaks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about plastics, recycling, war crimes, history, complicity, responsibility, bulldozers, Stonehenge, extinction, climate change, and new projects he’s working on.

David Breecker on Coffee and Culture Breecker is the Managing Director of the Microgram Systems Laboratory in Santa Fe. Breecker talks with with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about microgrids, energy storage, electrical arbitrage, peak metering, resiliency, climate change, range anxiety, and elucidates on where creative solutions to our current issues can make for more intelligent systems for our futu...

Rick Phelps on Coffee and Culture Rick Phelps has been making peer mache artworks for the past fifty years. He chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about his underground home, his family, his time in New York, the origins of paper and bureaucracy, and the peregrinations that brought him to Santa Fe in the early 1990s.

Marwin Begaye (Navajo) is a printmaker, teacher, and investigator of experimental printmaking living in Norman, Oklahoma. In late April he will be in Santa Fe to create a 10’ x 10’ woodblock print in a live performance at Container,  with local dancers creating the pressure for the ink transfer. He discusses the origins of this technique with host Matthew Chase-Daniel.

Dennis McNett will be in Santa Fe from April 25-29, leading a giant mask making workshop and a procession with 12 foot tall puppets. McNett discusses his techniques of mask making, printmaking, long-distance driving, and Norse mythology with host Matthew Chase-Daniel.

Irland and Matthew Chase-Daniel talk about the upcoming Going with the Flow: Art, Actions, and Western Waters exhibition at SITE Santa Fe, water, contemplation, blinders, ice books, riparian restoration, and the river as a living being and Boca Chica, where the Rio Grande meets the sea.  

Castillo and Host Chase-Daniel talk about spitting on beautiful beings to protect them from the Mal de Ojo, returning water to the Rio Grande, 19th Century clearcutting of Northern New Mexico forests, the Transcontinental Railroad, and thinking about both the local and the global. Castillo is one of the artists in the upcoming Going with the Flow: Art, Actions, and Western Waters exhibition at SIT...

Meridel and Matthew Chase-Daniel talk about her wastewater garden project in Iraq, flood, drought, coracles, Noah, the future, the past, and her new body of work.

March 4, 2023. Terran Last Gun chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about his show at Hecho Gallery, representation and abstraction, the sun and the moon, the tall mountains and the wide plains of Montana, Piikani culture, and Frank Stella and Joseph Albers.

June 11/12, 2022 John Flax on Coffee and Culture John Flax is the Founding Artistic Director of Theater Grottesco, founded in Paris in 1983 and thriving today in Santa Fe. Flax speaks about Grottesco’;s current performance,  SURVEY, a collaboration with with Burning Books and Axle Contemporary, as well as The Cirque de Paris, plaster in Paris, and leaving room for the intelligence of an audience....

Andrea Hanley on Coffee and Culture Feb. 2023 Hanley talks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about California Stars, the new show she has curated at the Wheelwright, which includes fourteen important First California artists. There are California/New Mexico connections, works from the museum’s collection, borrowed works, new and old works. The artists’  works alternately deconstruct stereotypes or revital...

Pedro Reyes on Coffee and Culture Feb. 2023 Pedro Reyes is an artist from Mexico City whose show DIRECT ACTION is at SITE Santa Fe. Reyes’ work blends social and political activism with physical objects in stone, concrete and steel. Reyes talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about works from the show that engage a wide variety of topics and issues including nuclear weapons, gun violence, the 2nd a...

Arlene Goldbard on Coffee and Culture Jan. 2023 Goldbard is a writer, a painter, a facilitator, and an arts activist. She talks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about her new book of writings and paintings which coalesced around eleven influences in her life, including Nina Simone, Alice Neel, and John Trudell. The book is In the Camp of Angels of Freedom: What Does It Mean to Be Educated? 

Edie Dillman on Coffee and Culture Jan. 2023 Dillman chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about B. Public, a startup benefit corporation here in Santa Fe which is creating modular high-efficiency building systems which produce near-net-zero homes.

Ross Hamlin on Coffee and Culture Dec 25, 2022 Hamlin chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about music, teaching, working as an introverted bandleader, and the death and rebirth we might embrace at Christmas. Also featuring Rod Harrison’s recitation of a Christmas poem by Jeff Resta.

Hernan Gomez Chavez on Coffee and Culture Gomez Chavez talks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about welding, roses, the Virgin of Guadalupe, Gilberto Guzmán, multiculturalism in Santa Fe, and his sculpture project as an ode to the mural that was on the Halpin Building (now part of the New Mexico Museum of Art).

November 13/13, 2022 Dyanna Taylor, on Coffee and Culture Taylor and Chase-Daniel talk about CENTER’s upcoming programs in Santa Fe, Her work on recent and upcoming films, the liberation of finding fresh uncharted media, and how Dorothea Lange’s work was part of photography’s importance in speaking truth and informing our world.