Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel

Venancio Aragon and Chiara Giovando join host Matthew Chase-Daniel at ICA Santa Fe to talk about Woven Futures, Unbound Patterns: Contemporary Diné Weaving, an exhibition happening there, created by Aragon.They discus the wide variety of forms in Diné (Navajo) weaving, the resurgence of old forms that have existed but been less seen by market-driven collectors and promoters in the past 150 years. Aragon dedicates himself to creating contemporary work, engaging deep traditions, teaching, and educating us about the histories and cultures of this art form.

Sbarge talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about her new body of work, Antelope Island, the Great Salt Lake, Cyanotypes, hybrid creatures, adaptation and resilience, arts residencies, and cyanotypes.

Lambright talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about her paintings, and her lifelong passion for making art, from her childhood in Russia to her life in the deserts of New Mexico. They talk about materials, making and preparing panels and paints and how that grounds us in our practice, about light and life, and how painting helps us speak things we may not be able to say.

Nabhan chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about his work in the deserts of the Southwest over the past 40+ years, his newest book, communication through smell, Quitobaquito Spring, the border wall, holobionts, Nanao Sakaki, ecology, Neurodivergence, and the importance of life in community in our human and more-than-human world.

On the approach of his 90th birthday, Loeffler chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about his life work, as a jazz trumpeter, environmental activist, “aural historian,” author, folklorist, student of culture and Nature, and thinker.

Arthur Sze was just appointed to his second term as U.S. Poet Laureate. He speaks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about his new book about translation Transient Worlds, and about blurring the boundaries between writing and reading, making poetry less intimidating, the way translations may change over time, and the joys to be found in language.

Candice Hopkins (citizen of Carcross/Tagish First Nation) has curated Indian Theater: Native Performance, Art, and Self-Determination since 1969 (now at SITE), inspired by two events from 1969, the publication of “Indian Theatre: An Artistic Experiment in Progress”, and the occupation of Alcatraz Island. She talks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about the show, history, representation, humor, and visual sovereignty, about intersections between activism and performance art, and how burning things down can create pathways to rebirth and reinvention in landscape and art.

Lynn Adler and Bill Shapiro
Lynn Adler spent time in the early 1970s in Petaca, a small village in Northern New Mexico. She photographed her transplant counter-culture friends, and the long-standing local community.  Now more than 50 years later, she and (former LIFE magazine editor) Bill Shapiro have put together a book of the photos and accompanying writings. The photos are being shown in an exhibition at Obscura in Santa Fe. Host Matthew Chase-Daniel chats with them about putting together a book, how Petaca and New Mexico has changed, and experiences of working as an activist and as a photographer.

Back on the show is Brian Vallo (Acoma) who has worked with Acoma potters to together curate an exhibition at the Museum of International Folk Art of figural work depicting humans and animals. The show draws from MoIFA’s ccollection, from other collections, and several commissioned works. He talk with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about the show, and a bit about some of his other work, repatriation through NAGPRA, and protecting Chaco Canyon.

Benson, an artist and writer here in Santa Fe chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about speaking in public, the hot new thing, the non-commercial art world, translucent ocean waves in the desert, avoiding formulaic work, supporting serious artists in Santa Fe, the invention of photography, writing about art as an artist, good and evil, greed, fear, and The Iroquois Confederacy.