Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel

Chip Thomas (jetsonorama)

In the late 1980s, Chip Thomas (jetsonorama) moved to a rural area of the Navajo Nation to work as a physician in a health clinic. He hoped to manage to stay for four years, and fell in love with the land and the people and the culture and stayed for 36 years. Since 2009, he has been installing large-scale photos, pasted onto mostly abandoned buildings along the roadsides on the Navajo Nation, and also across the country and abroad. In April he will install a project on The Lena Wall in Santa Fe. Chip chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about life and work and history and inspiration.

Charine Pilar Gonzales

Charine Pilar Gonzales is a filmmaker from San Ildefonso Pueblo. She talks about Pueblo storytelling, clay traditions and film, family, community, recent projects and awards, her film River Bank (Po-Kehgeh) upcoming projects, and Sundance.

John Brandi

John Brandi is a poet, essayist and painter. He has lived in New Mexico since 1971. His newest book, A Luminous Uplift: Landscape and Memoir is a collection of writings that explore land, light, culture, and spirit in his experiences across the planet, including Ecuador, Southern California, India, Bali, and Northern New Mexico. Matthew has a conversation with John by the wood stove, in John’s home in El Rito.

Jesse Wilson

Jesse Wilson talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about SAFE HAVEN, her art installation at Axle Contemporary, and Ogres, mythology, feelings, winter, warmth, life choices, solitude, art and business, creative practice, expression, and  integrity.

The Aunties: Nora Naranjo Morse, Deborah Jackson Taffa, Kendra Mylnechuck Potter

The Aunties: Women of the White Shell Water Place features 3 local indigenous women speaking and sharing stories of place, community, and culture. Host Matthew Chase-Daniel talks with 2 of the Aunties, Nora Naranjo Morse (Kha’p’o Owenge (Santa Clara Pueblo)) and Deborah Jackson Taffa (Quechan (Kwatsáan)/ Laguna), along with the performance’s director Kendra Mylnechuck Potter (Lummi). They talk about art and writing, their own work, women as community culture holders and communicators, and the power that birth, death, writing, and art all have to inspire and transform us.

b brown

b brown has been making ceramics for 30 years but is just now beginning to exhibit her work. Much of what came out of her kiln in the past was immediately destroyed by the artist herself. The process of working for her has been one of searching, questioning, and learning. Now brown is exhibiting her latest work of sculptural ceramics at Hecho a Mano Gallery inn Santa Fe (downtown on Palace Ave.) brown talks about her process and her approach with host Matthew Chase-Daniel.

Chelsey Johnson

Johnson is the director of the Santa Fe Arts and Culture Department. She talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about the various funding and support programs that the department offers as well as the Poet Laureate and City Historian programs. They also talk about her novel, Stray City, and how it adresses concepts of family and community, and how that has changed over the years. They also talk about foraging, karaoke, observing the world as an artist, avoiding adverbs, and the joy of squeezing puffball mushrooms.

Suzanne Fricke

Matthew talks with Fricke about her new book, As We See It, published by UNM Press. The book centers the voices of ten Native American Photographers, Jamison Chās Banks, Anna Hoover, Tom Jones, Larry McNeil, Shelley Niro, Wendy Red Star, Beverly R. Singer, Matika Wilbur,  William Wilson, and Tiffiney Yazzie. They also talk about her work running Gallery Hozhó in Albuquerque, humor in art, and an upcoming exhibition at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles: Future Imaginaries, Art Fashion, Technology, the relationship of articulation an exhibition as a collaboration between artist and curator, bleeding green, and Comic-Con.

Danny Lyon

Danny Lyon has been a force in the world of photography for sixty years. In the early 1960s he was the staff photographer for SNCC, and has created countess series of photos and films since that time, across the US and in Haiti, Mexico, and Columbia. He chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about his upcoming memoir, This is My Life I'm Talking About, the film The Bikeriders (based on his book), his exhibition at Obscura Gallery, and climate change, fire, telephoto lenses, and activism.

Blackhorse Lowe

Blackhorse Lowe talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about writing and directing films and television, bringing his Navajo culture to light through his films, language, insight, family teachings, and his uncle’s vast collection of films and music that influenced him as a teenager in rural Northwestern New Mexico.