Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel

Kaela Waldstein moved to Santa Fe eight years ago to follow a dream of making films about artists. With fresh eyes in a new place, she found inspiration, energy, and inspiring challenges. Working largely alone, she has made numerous documentary films about many of the compelling artists working here in Santa Fe. She chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about methods, techniques, approaches, and inspirations.

Hudson (Tlingit, Filipino, German, English) chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about blues embedded in art practice, growing up with artist parents, pre-capitalist life ways, generosity, harmony, Tlingit formline design, aesthetics, and the differences between the seasonal life of Alaska and that of the Southwest.

Kirby (Tortugas) chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about bees: the many varieties of bees. There are many species, but also great variation within species. Honey and other bee products are used traditionally not only for sweetness, but also as varnishes, lubricants, medicine, and antiseptic dressings and salves.  Bees, bees, bees. There is much to learn from bees, and Kirby brings an awareness of the vast web of interconnectedness among all living things on this planet.

Geoffrey Gorman
Gorman chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about art galleries in Santa Fe in the 1980s and 90s, and how that world has changed, about sharing knowledge with other artists, about birds and raccoons we have each known, about a shared wonder of and appreciation for the natural world, and about the spirit of old materials, and how he incorporates those materials into artwork.

A bit of an inversion this week. Artist Janice Wall interviews Matthew Chase-Daniel (instead of the other way around). They talk about making art in collaboration with other people, growing up in the unique culture of your own family, the joy of sunlight and ice crystals, and how everyone is interesting.

Jade Begay (Tesuque Pueblo/Diné), works at the intersections of Indigenous rights and climate and environmental justice, shaping national and international policy. Jade has worked with Indigenous-led organizations and Tribes from the Amazon to the Arctic to advance Indigenous-led solutions and self-determination through advocacy campaigns, research, storytelling and narrative strategies. Her new podcast, Jaded, has just dropped, though Indigenous House.

Weiss chats from his Santa Monica California home with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about Mice on Crack, Beaver Shot, Prometheus, the Garden, and Old News, a daily email he’s been sending out to a growing group of people every day for the past 25 years. Weiss sees his art as a subtractive process rather than additive, something he honed as a photographer, and now brings forth into other artforms.

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.

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.

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.