Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel
Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel presents conversations with artists, musicians, scientists, filmmakers, authors, innovators, cultural leaders, activists, and creative change makers from across New Mexico and around the country who are creatively exploring the world. Listen at chasedaniel.com or on most podcast platforms at Coffee and Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel.
Episodes
Cross chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about her upcoming installation of life-size woodblock prints of New Mexico wildlife in the Santa Fe Railyard Park. They talk about varieties of plywood, wheatpasting, printmaking, Maine, Georgia O’Keeffe, looking up at trees in the night, and artisanal cheese-making.
Kaela Waldstein moved to Santa Fe eight years ago to follow a dream of making films about artists. With fresh eyes in a new place, she found inspiration, energy, and inspiring challenges. Working largely alone, she has made numerous documentary films about many of the compelling artists working here in Santa Fe. She chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about methods, techniques, approaches, and inspirations.
Hudson (Tlingit, Filipino, German, English) chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about blues embedded in art practice, growing up with artist parents, pre-capitalist life ways, generosity, harmony, Tlingit formline design, aesthetics, and the differences between the seasonal life of Alaska and that of the Southwest.
Kirby (Tortugas) chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about bees: the many varieties of bees. There are many species, but also great variation within species. Honey and other bee products are used traditionally not only for sweetness, but also as varnishes, lubricants, medicine, and antiseptic dressings and salves. Bees, bees, bees. There is much to learn from bees, and Kirby brings an awareness of the vast web of interconnectedne...
Geoffrey Gorman
Gorman chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about art galleries in Santa Fe in the 1980s and 90s, and how that world has changed, about sharing knowledge with other artists, about birds and raccoons we have each known, about a shared wonder of and appreciation for the natural world, and about the spirit of old materials, and how he incorporates those materials into artwork.
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.
Jade Begay (Tesuque Pueblo/Diné), works at the intersections of Indigenous rights and climate and environmental justice, shaping national and international policy. Jade has worked with Indigenous-led organizations and Tribes from the Amazon to the Arctic to advance Indigenous-led solutions and self-determination through advocacy campaigns, research, storytelling and narrative strategies. Her new podcast, Jaded, has just dropped, th...
Weiss 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.
Yuki 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.
Byrne runs KMRD-LP, a freeform, volunteer-run, commercial-free, and listener-supported Low Power FM community radio station, based in Madrid, NM. Frazar-Smith directs H+H Arts, a community non-profit art space on Canyon Road in Santa Fe. We talk about both of these things, and why projects like these might be important in our time.
Garcia (Kha’p’o Owinghe) and Murphy have curated an exhibition, Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country, which is on view art the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum through September 2027. The exhibition includes artworks and texts by artists and cultural knowledge holders from all of the Tewa-speaking Pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona, and related works by O'Keeffe. The contemporary Tewa artworks speak of long relationships to land and sky and place, and o...
Artist 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.
Wheeler 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, un...
Horvitz, 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 bis...
Sydney 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 investigation...
Chase 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.
Aguirre 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.
...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 pl...
Alemani 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...
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.
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