Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Alemani is the curator of Once Within a Time, the newest big show from SITE SANTA FE. Alemani chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about the different venues, the diverse characters of spaces, audiences, artists, aesthetics, and ideas, and how the exhibition coalesces around the work of 71 artists, 27 characters (historical and mythical), many writers, venues and themes, through circular storytelling, dreams and waking reality, and subtle influence.

Wendy Johnson chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about her new book, Kinship Medicine, and themes of preserving and creating community, the practice of medicine, relationships with other humans, animals, and plants, and visioning a way forward for thriving in health and spirit in our time.

Tonya talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about the upcoming exhibition by Nadya Tolokonnikova at Turner Carrol Gallery in Santa Fe, as well as Tonya’s approach to art-making and her recent durational performance at MOCA in L.A. which was shut down because the police state came to the neighborhood. Also presented are some excerpts from some of the artist’s recordings from her own work and as part of Pussy Riot.