The Coffee & Culture podcast presents conversations with host Matthew Chase-Daniel, featuring guests from across New Mexico and around the country who are actively laying down the architecture for a better world. Chase-Daniel interviews dynamic and innovative guests that include artists, scientists, filmmakers, authors, innovators, cultural leaders, activists, and creative change makers.
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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 ea…
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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.…
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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 …
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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 reali…
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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 …
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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 Uran…
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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.…
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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.…
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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,…
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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, th…
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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.Matthew Chase-Daniel
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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.…
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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.Matthew Chase-Daniel
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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.Matthew Chase-Daniel
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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 …
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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.Matthew Chase-Daniel
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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.…
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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, Okla…
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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.…
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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 build…
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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.Matthew Chase-Daniel
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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 conve…
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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.Matthew Chase-Daniel
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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 direct…
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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 Man…
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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 th…
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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 Gal…
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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 Abou…
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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.…
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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 …
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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.…
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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 exhi…
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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 Arti…
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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.Matthew Chase-Daniel
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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 transit…
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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 Mexic…
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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.…
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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 Axl…
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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.Matthew Chase-Daniel
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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 …
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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 worl…
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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. Aud…
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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 …
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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 …
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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.…
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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 M…
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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.Matthew Chase-Daniel
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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.Matthew Chase-Daniel
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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: …
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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.Matthew Chase-Daniel
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