Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel

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.

Inga Hendrickson

Inga Hendrickson chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about biological processes, color saturation, sewing fruit, motherhood, motivations and inspirations, cities and towns, The physicality of sculpture, and her exhibition at Axle Contemporary, These Cracks Weep.

Pando Speer and Dain Daller--Warp Zone

Pando Speer and Dain Daller are an artist couple living one the land near Abiquiu and El Rito. They moved to New Mexico 15 years ago and learned to weave here at the Espanola Valley Fiber Arts Center. They show and sell their weavings as Warp Zone and travel the world to learn and share. They also built their own home and studio, an Earthship. They talk with Matthew Chase-Daniel about weaving, building, living and life.

James Gould

Artist James Gould chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about SPRICKLE, his new sculpture just installed in the Railyard Park, about, the balance between control and freedom, about inspirations, about the benefits of age, about the Erie Canal, and about his fathers collection of old boards.

Kyle Paoletta

Kyle Paoletta’s new book, American Oasis, is a deep dive into the history of Southwestern cities, including Albuquerque, Phoenix, Tucson, El Paso, and Las Vegas. Paoletta helps us to learn from the past to help us prepare for the future of the Southwest and elsewhere as water resources evaporate and populations grow in a fragile environment. He chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about the environment, the history, the people, the politics, and possible futures.

Hills Snyder and James Hart

Hills Snyder comes up to Santa Fe from Magdalena for a visit at Phil Space with Matthew and James Hart. Together they discuss Snyder’s exhibition that is up now and through the end of January, as well as the backroad travels that led to his search for a portrait of America. Hart discusses the origins of Phil Space, and each guest plays one of their songs for us.

Roxanne Swentzell

    Roxanne Swentzell (Santa Clara Pueblo) is an accomplished artist who has communicated with the world through her sculptures for all of her life.  Roxanne and Matthew chat about pack rats and squash bugs, pumice and cement, building sculpture with unfired locally-sourced clays, making work in community, art, permaculture, and more, while drinking coffee and eating grapefruit and apples.

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.