Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel

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.

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.