Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel

Kate Kita and Louis Grachos

At SITE Santa Fe, Kita is the director of development an Grachos the executive director. Matthew talks with Kita and Grachos about all the shows and talks coming up at SITE SANTA FE, as well as Robert Smithson and Teresita Fernandez show that has just opened there. They also talk about the Jeffrey Gibson show at the Venice Biennale,  fundraising, the joys of membership, and running a big contemporary artspace in the world and in Santa Fe.

Bob Haozous

Bob Haozous is a sculptor, living here in Santa Fe, and has been making his work for more than 50 years. Bob chats in his studio with Matthew about culture, knowledge, craft, relationship, money, meaning, messengers, censorship, and art.

Rapheal Begay

Rapheal Begay is a Diné photographer based in Window Rock. He talks with Matthew about ALL REZ, an exhibition of his photos, traveling across the Navajo Nation with Axle Contemporary and the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, during the month of June- and coming to Santa Fe from June 27-30. They also discuss language, museums, sheep, and photography.

Israel Haros Lopez

Israel Haros Lopez talks with Matthew about the Barrio Art School, Alas de Agua, Barrio Universe City, making art, working with people, education, opportunities, and Santa Fe.

Joe David and Francesco Siqueiros

Artists Joe David (Nuu-chah-nulth) and Francesco Siqueiros talk with Matthew Chase-Daniel about their exhibition at the Yuma Art Center, their youth in Yuma, early exposure to art in their lives, and the cultural values that inspire the work they do.

David Scheinbaum and Laureta Huit

Thirty years ago photographer David Scheinbaum accompanied his parents on a trip back to the beaches of Normandy where his father had been part of the Normandy Invasion during WWII fifty years before, Scheinbaum recorded the experience in photographs and journals, and was transformed by a new understanding of his father. Scheinbaum and NM Military Museum director Laureta Huit discuss the upcoming exhibition of this body of work at the Museum.

Andrew Lovato

Andrew Lovato is the City Historian and chair of the Arts Commission for the City of Santa Fe. He talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about history, stories, time, culture, listening, tourism, architecture and art.

Avra Leodas

Avra Leodas talks with Matthew about the Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener’s Fair (May 11th) and all that is happening there and what the Master Gardeners do: Plant sale, tool sale, pest questions answered, composting, soil health, demonstration gardens, education, music, food, and more great stuff like that.

Brian Fleetwood

Artist Brian Fleetwood (Mvskoke) talks with Matthew about his artist-in residence project, Place/Holding, with the O’Keeffe Museum’s Art to G.O. and Axle Contemporary.  The conversation touches on how jewelry and adornment can mediate between our bodies and the rest of the world around us, virology, immunity, cultural wisdom, plastic recycling, Oklahoma and Georgia, and setting processes in motion and ceding control.

Michelle Korte and Lena Weiss of Herstory Printmaking Collective

Michelle Korte and Lena Weiss of Herstory Printmaking Collective talk with Matthew about their Women of The Rails project which they’ll be pasting up in the Santa Fe Railyard on April 20th, as part of the Railyard Art Project. They elucidate some of the history and personalities involved with railroads in America from the mid 1800s to the present.