Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel

Yuki Murata

Yuki Murata chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about art, feet on the ground, Iceland, Svalbard, Volcanoes, Japan, slip-casting porcelain, carrying canvases through the landscape, the solidity of a square, and control and surrender.

Stella Linder Byrne and Heather Frazar-Smith

Byrne runs KMRD-LP, a freeform, volunteer-run, commercial-free, and listener-supported Low Power FM community radio station, based in Madrid, NM. Frazar-Smith directs H+H Arts,  a community non-profit art space on Canyon Road in Santa Fe. We talk about both of these things, and why projects like these might be important in our time.

Jason Garcia and Bess Murphy

Garcia (Kha’p’o Owinghe) and Murphy have curated an exhibition, Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country, which is on view art the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum through September 2027. The exhibition includes artworks and texts by artists and cultural knowledge holders from all of the Tewa-speaking Pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona, and related works by O'Keeffe. The contemporary Tewa artworks speak of long relationships to land and sky and place, and of both commonalities and tensions between the lives and work of these artists and the life and work of O’Keeffe.

Joseph Arnoux and Toccarra Thomas

Artist and SFAI resident Joseph Arnoux (Blackfeet/Spokane) and SFAI director Toccarra Thomas join host Matthew Chase-Daniel to discuss the new BMX ramp Arnoux is making and the symbols and designs that reference Blackfeet tipi designs. They also touch on kinnikinnick, childhood, making one’s way as an artist, relationships and traumas that arise in family, and the program and resources offered at SFAI.

Joshua Wheeler

Wheeler grew up in southern New Mexico, near White Sands. In his new novel, The High Heaven, he explores the parallel rise of space travel and television through the (shining) eyes of a young girl orphaned from a local cult and through her life and travels: on a ranch near White Sands, throughout Texas, and into New Orleans, over the course of her lifetime. Wheeler chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about the book, the places, unusual experiences, and always the moon.

David Horvitz

Horvitz, an artist based in L.A., was in Santa Fe working on his upcoming project, this dark rainy night, at Axle Contemporary. He and host Matthew Chase-Daniel roll though descriptions of the project (including his family history, Japanese internment camps in New Mexico, a missing cat, apple pies, and murder in Lordsburg) interspersed with discussions of the cultural influences of Ensenada fish tacos, a mycelium kayak, and the bison of Catalina Island.

Sydney Cooper

Sydney Cooper talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about her work restoring and rebuilding the historic Sena Mercantile store in Pojoaque. Cooper is also collecting stories from the local community as an archive of that place and learning and sharing the history of the valley, through research and conversations. She is a current resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute and is using the space and time there to deepen her investigations and engage the community in the process.

Karen Chase

Chase chats with host (and son) Matthew Chase-Daniel about her new book- Two Tales: Jamali Kamali and ZundelState which has just been published by Guernica Editions. She will be reading from the book and in conversation with Chase-Daniel at Collected Works on September 7th. The conversation ranges across a broad range of topics, from donuts to Albert Einstein’s brain, from the Song of Solomon, to the Frito Pie Museum.

Adrián Aguirre

Aguirre chats with host Matthew Chase Daniel. They discuss The Lena Wall, where the artist’s drawings are now being displayed. They also talk about processes of connecting with people who are portrayed in the drawings and communicating that connection through drawing and memory. They also talk about issues of immigration and how it is portrayed in American culture, and how we pronounce our names differently in different situations.

Daniel McCoy Jr.

McCoy (Muscogee Creek/ Citizen Band Potawatomi) chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about his new landscape paintings in his Scenes Along The Rio Grande series, showing at Hecho a Mano Gallery. He speaks about the inspiration of observing the natural world on family hikes during the pandemic and how music move us, inspires us, and helps us get unstuck. He talks about inspirations in his life in Oklahoma and in Santa Fe. He also plays us a tune on his dulcimer.