Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel

Jason Salavon

Salavon 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.

Erika Wanenmacher

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 earth.

Three Sisters Collective panel talk Nov 3, 2024

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.

Tristan Duke

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 ice cores.

Ginger Dunnill and Josie Lopez

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 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.

Robert King

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 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.

Shayla Blatchford

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 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 can carry meaning throughout the world.

Tony Abeyta and Chiara Giovando

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.

Laura Ortman

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.

Larry McNeil

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, photographic processes, and teaching.