Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel

Cecelia Alemani

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 subtle influence.

Wendy Johnson

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.

Tonya Turner Carroll/ Nadya Tolokonnikova

Tonya 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.

Paula Roland, Gina Telcocci, and Linda Ingraham

We5 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.

Mary Anne Redding and Meridel Rubenstein

CENTER 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 work in the show, the artists, and the importance of addressing the important fallout of the industry in our communities.

Jennifer Schlesinger and Jennifer DeCarlo (on Luis González Palma)

Jennifer Schlesinger and Jennifer DeCarlo
The Jennifers are both gallerists and curators. They discuss the exhibition Möbius, by Luis González Palma, on view at Schlesinger’s Obscura Gallery in Santa Fe. Luis González Palma is a Guatemalan artist/photographer, living now in Argentina. His works address identity, sorrow, trauma, and beauty. His current project- Möbius- mixes figuration and abstraction to address the personal and embodied, and the aesthetic and political, merging these divergent ways of depicting the world through visual art.

Amber Dawn Bear Robe

Amber 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.

Jamison Chās Banks

Banks 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.

Stacy Levy and Patricia Watts

Levy 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.

Rose Eason

For 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.