Shows
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielJanice Wall (interviews Matthew Chase-Daniel)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.
2026-02-0340 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielJeff WeissWeiss 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.
2026-01-0450 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielYuki MurataYuki 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.
2025-12-0842 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielJoseph Arnoux and Toccarra ThomasArtist and SFAI resident Joseph Arnoux (Blackfeet/Spokane) and SFAI director Toccarra Thomas join host Matthew Chase-Daniel to discuss the new BMX ramp Arnoux is making and the symbols and designs that reference Blackfeet tipi designs. They also touch on kinnikinnick, childhood, making one’s way as an artist, relationships and traumas that arise in family, and the program and resources offered at SFAI.
2025-10-2541 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielJoshua WheelerWheeler grew up in southern New Mexico, near White Sands. In his new novel, The High Heaven, he explores the parallel rise of space travel and television through the (shining) eyes of a young girl orphaned from a local cult and through her life and travels: on a ranch near White Sands, throughout Texas, and into New Orleans, over the course of her lifetime. Wheeler chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about the book, the places, unusual experiences, and always the moon.
2025-10-1140 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielDavid HorvitzHorvitz, an artist based in L.A., was in Santa Fe working on his upcoming project, this dark rainy night, at Axle Contemporary. He and host Matthew Chase-Daniel roll though descriptions of the project (including his family history, Japanese internment camps in New Mexico, a missing cat, apple pies, and murder in Lordsburg) interspersed with discussions of the cultural influences of Ensenada fish tacos, a mycelium kayak, and the bison of Catalina Island.
2025-09-2741 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielSydney CooperSydney Cooper talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about her work restoring and rebuilding the historic Sena Mercantile store in Pojoaque. Cooper is also collecting stories from the local community as an archive of that place and learning and sharing the history of the valley, through research and conversations. She is a current resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute and is using the space and time there to deepen her investigations and engage the community in the process.
2025-09-1341 min
The Last Word: Conversations with WritersKaren Chase and Matthew Chase-DanielMother and son, Karen Chase and Matthew Chase-Daniel intrigue the airwaves with me to discuss art, writing, poetry, imagination and historical “facts.” Karen Chase comes to town to read her “re-imagined” story, Two Tales: Jamali Kamali and ZundelState, the first tale set in 16th Century India inspired by the magnificent tomb in Delhi of Sufi Saint Jamali and his supposed lover, Kamali, and ZundelState set a thousand years in the future. Matthew is well respected in Santa Fe for his podcast Coffee and Culture, art installations and mobile art gallery Axle Contemporary. Mother and son will be in conversation at Collecte...
2025-09-0522 min
The Side WooLive on Radio Tomada in Santa Fe: Zina Al Shukri, Matthew Chase-Daniel and Jerry WellmanThis week's episode was recorded and broadcasted live from the Axel Contemporary Truck onto Radio Tomada in Santa Fe. Thibault talks with Mathew and Jerry about woo, and talks with Zina about the sound bath she did at Electra Gallery, living in Arkansas, and the art world. About Radio TomadaRadio Tomada 87.9 is a mobile radio broadcast project organized by Autumn Chacon for SITE Santa Fe's International Biennial curated by Cecila Alemani. Zina Al ShukriZina Al-Shukri was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1978. She moved...
2025-09-0441 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielKaren ChaseChase chats with host (and son) Matthew Chase-Daniel about her new book- Two Tales: Jamali Kamali and ZundelState which has just been published by Guernica Editions. She will be reading from the book and in conversation with Chase-Daniel at Collected Works on September 7th. The conversation ranges across a broad range of topics, from donuts to Albert Einstein’s brain, from the Song of Solomon, to the Frito Pie Museum.
2025-08-2941 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielAdrián AguirreAguirre chats with host Matthew Chase Daniel. They discuss The Lena Wall, where the artist’s drawings are now being displayed. They also talk about processes of connecting with people who are portrayed in the drawings and communicating that connection through drawing and memory. They also talk about issues of immigration and how it is portrayed in American culture, and how we pronounce our names differently in different situations.
2025-08-1840 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielDaniel McCoy Jr.McCoy (Muscogee Creek/ Citizen Band Potawatomi) chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about his new landscape paintings in his Scenes Along The Rio Grande series, showing at Hecho a Mano Gallery. He speaks about the inspiration of observing the natural world on family hikes during the pandemic and how music move us, inspires us, and helps us get unstuck. He talks about inspirations in his life in Oklahoma and in Santa Fe. He also plays us a tune on his dulcimer.
2025-08-0341 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielCecelia AlemaniAlemani is the curator of Once Within a Time, the newest big show from SITE SANTA FE. Alemani chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about the different venues, the diverse characters of spaces, audiences, artists, aesthetics, and ideas, and how the exhibition coalesces around the work of 71 artists, 27 characters (historical and mythical), many writers, venues and themes, through circular storytelling, dreams and waking reality, and subtle influence.
2025-07-1939 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielWendy JohnsonWendy 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.
2025-07-0543 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielTonya Turner Carroll/ Nadya TolokonnikovaTonya 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 of Pussy Riot.
2025-06-2141 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielPaula Roland, Gina Telcocci, and Linda IngrahamWe5 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 willow.
2025-06-0842 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielMary Anne Redding and Meridel RubensteinCENTER 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 science, mining, testing, and effects on local communities of all phases of the nuclear weapons complex, here in New Mexico and afar. Matthew Chase-Daniel talks with the artist and the curator about the...
2025-05-2441 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielAmber Dawn Bear RobeAmber 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, and many more designers and models from across our continent.
2025-04-2741 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielJamison Chās BanksBanks 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.
2025-04-1441 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielStacy Levy and Patricia WattsLevy 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.
2025-03-3043 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielRose EasonFor 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 Industries Division, the NEA and the NEH.
2025-03-1542 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielInga HendricksonInga 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.
2025-03-0139 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielPando Speer and Dain Daller--Warp ZonePando 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, building, living and life.
2025-02-1542 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielJames GouldArtist 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.
2025-02-0142 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielKyle PaolettaKyle 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 environment, the history, the people, the politics, and possible futures.
2025-01-1940 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielHills Snyder and James HartHills 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.
2025-01-0542 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielRoxanne Swentzell 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.
2024-12-2741 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielJason SalavonSalavon 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.
2024-11-2542 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielErika WanenmacherErika 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.
2024-11-1038 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielThree Sisters Collective panel talk Nov 3, 2024A 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.
2024-11-0554 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielTristan DukeDuke 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.
2024-10-2641 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielGinger Dunnill and Josie LopezDunnill 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 joy to be found in making work, working together, and sharing with friends, colleagues and the world.
2024-10-1241 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielRobert KingRobert 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 is largely self-taught and informed from his own research and experimentation. He talks about his process, his journey, his methods, and his inspirations with host Matthew Chase-Daniel.
2024-09-2941 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielShayla BlatchfordRaised 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-Uranium Mapping Project. She talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about this journey and the meaning of this work, for her and for our part of the country, and how it this...
2024-09-1541 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielTony Abeyta and Chiara GiovandoTony 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.
2024-08-3142 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielLaura OrtmanOrtman 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.
2024-08-1731 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielLarry McNeilLarry 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.
2024-08-0443 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielKate Kita and Louis GrachosAt 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 contemporary artspace in the world and in Santa Fe.
2024-07-2844 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielBob HaozousBob 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.
2024-07-0742 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielRapheal BegayRapheal 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.
2024-06-2342 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielIsrael Haros LopezIsrael 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.
2024-06-1041 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielJoe David and Francesco SiqueirosArtists 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.
2024-05-3041 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielDavid Scheinbaum and Laureta HuitThirty 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 exhibition of this body of work at the Museum.
2024-05-2741 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielAndrew LovatoAndrew 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.
2024-05-1941 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielAvra LeodasAvra 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.
2024-05-1936 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielBrian FleetwoodArtist 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 and ceding control.
2024-05-1939 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielMichelle Korte and Lena Weiss of Herstory Printmaking CollectiveMichelle 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.
2024-05-1541 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielChip Thomas (jetsonorama)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 also across the country and abroad. In April he will install a project on The Lena Wall in Santa Fe. Chip chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about life and...
2024-05-1541 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielCharine Pilar GonzalesCharine 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.
2024-04-1839 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielJohn BrandiJohn 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 home in El Rito.
2024-04-1841 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielJesse WilsonJesse 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.
2024-04-1841 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielThe Aunties: Nora Naranjo Morse, Deborah Jackson Taffa, Kendra Mylnechuck PotterThe 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 about art and writing, their own work, women as community culture holders and communicators, and the power that birth, death, writing, and art all have to inspire and transform us.
2024-04-1842 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Danielb brownb 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.) brown talks about her process and her approach with host Matthew Chase-Daniel.
2024-04-1841 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielChelsey JohnsonJohnson 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 about foraging, karaoke, observing the world as an artist, avoiding adverbs, and the joy of squeezing puffball mushrooms.
2024-04-1839 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielSuzanne FrickeMatthew 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 upcoming exhibition at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles: Future Imaginaries, Art Fashion, Technology, the relationship of articulation an exhibition as a collaboration between artist and curator, bleeding green, and Comic-Con.
2024-03-1341 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielDanny LyonDanny 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), his exhibition at Obscura Gallery, and climate change, fire, telephoto lenses, and activism.
2024-03-0443 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielBlackhorse LoweBlackhorse 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.
2024-02-0843 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielIleana AlarcónIleana 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 bright and playful coloration.
Her solo exhibition of 21 sculptures is at Kouri and Corrao Gallery in Santa Fe.
2024-01-1139 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielLucy LippardLucy 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.
2024-01-1142 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielNicholas GalaninNicholas 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 London and Aotearoa, confronting difficult truths through art, and the value of being rooted in a multi-generational family of Llingit artists.
2024-01-1142 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielChristian Waguespack, Katie Doyle, and Alexandra TerryNew 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 Digital Window, The Leo Villareal LED installation, Rick Dillingham, Beatrice Wood, Yayoi Kusama and Georgia O’Keeffe.
2023-11-2141 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielAugust MuthAugust 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.
2023-11-2142 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielKathleen McCloudKathleen 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.
2023-11-1440 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielJenn ShaplandShapland’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.
2023-11-0941 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielKaitlin BrysonBryson 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.
2023-09-2821 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielTitus Steiner CodyCody 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.
2023-09-2820 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielJudy TuwaletstiwaJudy 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.
2023-09-2840 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielFatima RonquilloFatima 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, procrastination, mythology, and learning about art by copying drawings.
2023-09-0541 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielSara Daniele RiveraSara 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.
2023-09-0541 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielCritical Mass RoundtableSelections 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 here: https://www.axleart.com/critical-mass
2023-08-1556 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielAdam Jonas HorowitzAdam 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.
2023-08-0339 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielDavid BreeckerDavid 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 future.
2023-08-0341 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielRick PhelpsRick 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.
2023-08-0339 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielMarwin BegayeMarwin 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.
2023-06-1120 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielDennis McNettDennis 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.
2023-06-1120 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielBasia IrlandIrland 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.
2023-06-1119 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielPaula CastilloCastillo 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 SITE Santa Fe.
2023-06-1120 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielMeridel RubensteinMeridel 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.
2023-05-2939 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielTerran Last GunMarch 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.
2023-05-1640 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielJohn FlaxJune 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. He talks with Matthew Chase-Daniel on this week’s Coffee and Culture.
2023-03-1940 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielAndrea HanleyAndrea 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 revitalize traditions.
2023-03-1841 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielPedro ReyesPedro 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 amendment, libraries, food, music, and the United Nations.
2023-03-1842 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielArlene GoldbardArlene 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?
2023-03-1840 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielEdie DillmanEdie 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.
2023-03-1842 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielRoss HamlinRoss 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.
2023-03-1841 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielHernan Gomez ChavezHernan 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).
2023-03-1839 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielDyanna TaylorNovember 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.
2023-03-1838 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielJennifer SchlessingerNovember 26/27, 2022
Jennifer Schlessinger on Coffee and Culture
Schlessinger talks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about one-of-a-kind photography, photo history, spirit, masks, and the upcoming 6-person exhibit at Obscura Gallery.
2023-03-1839 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielDavid Scheinbaum and Janet RussekOctober 29 + 30, 2022
Janet Russek and David Scheinbaum, on Coffee and Culture
The photographers discuss their new bodies of work made during the pandemic shutdown and showing at PIE Projects. The conversation with host Matthew Chase-Daniel also touches on life and death, the intimacy of the darkroom, Eliot Porter, and Chaos Theory.
2023-03-1842 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielTonya Turner Carroll and Michael CarrollOctober 15 + 16, 2022
Tonya Turner Carroll and Michael Carroll, on Coffee and Culture
After 32 years running the eponymous Turner Carroll Gallery on Canyon Road, Tonya Turner Carroll and Michael Carroll are now working to shift the relationship between galleries and museums. This bold new direction takes form at Container, opening in the Baca Street Railyard on October 29th.
2023-03-1840 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielTilke ElkinsOctober 1 + 2, 2022
Tilke Elkins, on Coffee and Culture
Artist Tilke Elkins sits under a tree with host Matthew Chase-Daniel to talk about lake pigments, nature, visual experience over time, synesthesia, collecting moving shadows as the earth spins, and her exhibition at Form & Concept.
2023-03-1839 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielJon DavisSeptember 17&18, 2022
Jon Davis, on Coffee and Culture
Jon Davis joins host Matthew Chase-Daniel to discuss writing, stone walls, that small frisson we get when we text ourselves and feel that buzz that makes us feel less lonely. He also reads poems from his new books Above the Bejeweled City and Choose Your Own America.
2023-03-1839 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielJerry WellmanSeptember 3 & 4, 2022
Jerry Wellman- E Pluribus Unum: El Norte, on Coffee and Culture
Jerry Wellman has been working with Matthew Chase-Daniel for over a decade with Axle Contemporary. Wellman and Chase-Daniel discuss the fifth iteration of Axle’s ongoing E Pluribus Unum series, taking place now across Northern New Mexico.
2023-03-1839 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielEliza Naranjo Morse & Bess Murphy & Jamison Chas BanksAugust 6/7, 2022
Eliza Naranjo Morse, Jamison Chās Banks and Bess Murphy on Coffee and Culture.
Together with members of the local community at Ventana de Vida Naranjo Morse and Banks are working on Giving Growth, an interactive community art installation that involves edible plants and many flowers, grown at The Coe Center, at Ventana, and on Naranjo Morse’s farm at Kha’po’ Owenge. The artists and the Coe’s creative director speak about the project with Matthew Chase-Daniel on this week’s Coffee and Culture.
2023-03-1841 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielDoug Two BullsAugust 20/21, 2022
Doug Two Bulls on Coffee and Culture.
Doug Two Bulls and his cousins make music together as The Wake Singers. They are in New Mexico to participate in a concerts in Santa Fe and Albuquerque this weekend. Doug speaks about art, music, Santa Fe, and South Dakota with Matthew Chase-Daniel on this week’s Coffee and Culture.
2023-03-1839 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielVicente Telles & Jason GarciaJuly 23/24, 2022
Vicente Telles and Jason Garcia on Coffee and Culture.
Telles and Garcia are creating And She Dances… , an exhibition of works on paper for Axle Contemporary. The show includes drawings, serigraphs and stencil works, and pieces are created individually and collaboratively. The artists talk about their work and inspirations with Matthew Chase-Daniel on this week’s Coffee and Culture.
2023-03-1842 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielPatricia Perea & Michelle LanteriJuly 9/10, 2022
Patricia Perea and Michelle Lanteri on Coffee and Culture.
Perea is the director of the Manito Community Memory Project. Lanteri is the curator at the Millicent Rogers Museum, which is hosting an exhibition, Following the Manitos Trail.
2023-03-1822 min
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-DanielJenice Gharib and Valerie Martinezuly 9/10, 2022
Jenice Gharib and Valerie Martinez on Coffee and Culture.
Gharib and Martinez have been working on CHART (Culture, History, Art, Reconciliation, and Truth), a project sanctioned and funded by the Governing Body of Santa Fe, in response to (but larger than) the toppling of the Soldier’s Monument on the Plaza. They talk about the project and the process with Matthew Chase-Daniel on this week’s Coffee and Culture.
2023-03-1821 min
Seed Story BroadcastsMatthew Chase-Daniel shares his story of creating with natural materials and the cycle of lifeMatthew Chase-Daniel shares his story about ephemeral sculptures, the use of place-based natural materials, his connection to seeds and the cycle of life.
2016-06-1508 min