Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel

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.

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.