Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel

Ileana Alarcón

Ileana Alarcón is a Columbian-American artist currently working with paper pulp to create sculptures which are both familiar and unexpected. A bench manages  invokes a giraffe, a horse and a shower. Alarcón feels most comfortable in naturally formed spaces free from the right angles that dominate our living spaces. The works are inspired by natural forms and earthen architecture, combined with bright and playful coloration.
Her solo exhibition of 21 sculptures is at Kouri and Corrao Gallery in Santa Fe.

Lucy Lippard

Lucy Lippard
At age 86, Lucy Lippard is as busy, witty, and thoughtful as ever. She chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about her new non-memoir (her 27th book), learning to ride horses on branches of Maine oaks, collaboration, multiculturalism, place, relationships, work, climate, academia, and Patsy Montana.

Nicholas Galanin

Nicholas Galanin on Coffee and Culture
Nicholas Galanin/Yéil Ya-Tseen (Lingit/Unangax̂) is a multidisciplinary artist from Sitka Alaska whose work is made in relation to culture, identity, and land. He works in a wide variety of materials, in varying scales and wide-ranging locations. He speaks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about his upcoming exhibition at SITE Santa Fe, Land Back, studying in London and Aotearoa, confronting difficult truths through art, and the value of being rooted in a multi-generational family of Llingit artists.

Christian Waguespack, Katie Doyle, and Alexandra Terry

New Mexico Museum of Art-Vladem Contemporary opened in 2023 with Shadow and Light. Listen to a conversation with Christian Waguespack (Director of Curatorial Affairs), Katie Doyle (Assistant Curator), and the new Curator of Contemporary Art, Alexandra Terry. With host Matthew Chase-Daniel, they discuss the new building, the new exhibition, the Artist-in-Residence program, the Window Box, The Digital Window, The Leo Villareal LED installation, Rick Dillingham, Beatrice Wood, Yayoi Kusama and Georgia O’Keeffe.

August Muth

August Muth and host Matthew Chase-Daniel talk about holograms, light, sound, the universe, reproduction of moments in time in holography and photography, the 4th dimension, beautiful colors of gas lasers, the Light and Shadow exhibition at the Vladem Museum, wavelengths, and Bruce Nauman’s DNA.

Kathleen McCloud

Kathleen McCloud is an artist who grows and forages plants to process for dyes and pigments in her current body of work at GF Contemporary. She uses, painting, collage, and other techniques to produce her mixed media work. She and Matthew Chase-Daniel talk about her process, photography, Emily Dickinson, Van Morrison, grids, rhythm, and the transitory impermanence of things and lives.

Jenn Shapland

Shapland’s newest book, Thin Skin, is a collection of essays which explore many diverse themes but are all tied together through concepts of both vulnerability and interconnectedness.  Chase-Daniel and Shapland discuss the book and moths, vegetarianism, art, responsibility, shopping, capitalism, buddhism, and the nuclear weapons complex in New Mexico.

Kaitlin Bryson

Bryson talks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about collaborations in art and farming with people and non-human beings, about ephemeral art in a time of climate crisis, about compost and decay as a springboard for life, and about her work both at Axle Contemporary’s Fibrous Otherworlds exhibition and on the Lena Wall.

Titus Steiner Cody

Cody chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel in Pinehill/Ramah about his art, weaving as a way to overcome things that get in our way, healing, focus, living a life within the four sacred mountains, night skies, Changing Woman, depictions of everyday life, and bringing light to our struggles. His weavings will be featured in Fibrous Otherworlds at Axle Contemporary.

Judy Tuwaletstiwa

Judy Tuwaletstiwa talks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about genesis, genius, frogs, pollywogs, polio, teaching, learning, card tricks, death, heart, her new book made in collaboration with her grandson, TikTok, and her exhibition at Pie Projects.