Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...