Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel

Fatima Ronquillo

Fatima Ronquillo is a self-taught Philippines-born painter who has been living and working in Santa Fe for the past fifteen years. She exhibits her work at Meyer Gallery on Canyon Road, and will have a solo exhibition at the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos from June 30-September 24. Ronquillo speaks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about the mixture of sharp details with soft faces in her painting, procrastination, mythology, and learning about art by copying drawings.

Sara Daniele Rivera

Sara Daniele Rivera is a poet, novelist, translator, artist, and educator from Albuquerque. She speaks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about her work, about her big first book award from the Academy of American Poets, about grief and deserts, about Project Interchange with Friends of the Orphan Signs, and about Moby Dick and detailed descriptions of worlds. And she reads poems.

Critical Mass Roundtable

Selections from a Roundtable Discussion from Tuesday, August 8th, 2023 at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, NM in conjunction with Meridel Rubenstein's Critical Mass exhibition. With Alicia Inez Guzman, Roshi Joan Halifax, Josie Lopez, Meridel Rubenstein, Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez, and Rebecca Solnit. Moderated by Tonya Turner Carroll. Audio is not great, apologies. Info on the speakers here: https://www.axleart.com/critical-mass
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Adam Jonas Horowitz

Adam Jonas Horowitz on Coffee and Culture
Horowitz is a filmmaker, artist, journalist, and activist who works to try to improve the condition of the world. He speaks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about plastics, recycling, war crimes, history, complicity, responsibility, bulldozers, Stonehenge, extinction, climate change, and new projects he’s working on.

David Breecker

David Breecker on Coffee and Culture
Breecker is the Managing Director of the Microgram Systems Laboratory in Santa Fe. Breecker talks with with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about microgrids, energy storage, electrical arbitrage, peak metering, resiliency, climate change, range anxiety, and elucidates on where creative solutions to our current issues can make for more intelligent systems for our future.

Rick Phelps

Rick Phelps on Coffee and Culture
Rick Phelps has been making peer mache artworks for the past fifty years. He chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about his underground home, his family, his time in New York, the origins of paper and bureaucracy, and the peregrinations that brought him to Santa Fe in the early 1990s.

Marwin Begaye

Marwin Begaye (Navajo) is a printmaker, teacher, and investigator of experimental printmaking living in Norman, Oklahoma. In late April he will be in Santa Fe to create a 10’ x 10’ woodblock print in a live performance at Container,  with local dancers creating the pressure for the ink transfer. He discusses the origins of this technique with host Matthew Chase-Daniel.

Dennis McNett

Dennis McNett will be in Santa Fe from April 25-29, leading a giant mask making workshop and a procession with 12 foot tall puppets. McNett discusses his techniques of mask making, printmaking, long-distance driving, and Norse mythology with host Matthew Chase-Daniel.

Basia Irland

Irland and Matthew Chase-Daniel talk about the upcoming Going with the Flow: Art, Actions, and Western Waters exhibition at SITE Santa Fe, water, contemplation, blinders, ice books, riparian restoration, and the river as a living being and Boca Chica, where the Rio Grande meets the sea.
 

Paula Castillo

Castillo and Host Chase-Daniel talk about spitting on beautiful beings to protect them from the Mal de Ojo, returning water to the Rio Grande, 19th Century clearcutting of Northern New Mexico forests, the Transcontinental Railroad, and thinking about both the local and the global. Castillo is one of the artists in the upcoming Going with the Flow: Art, Actions, and Western Waters exhibition at SITE Santa Fe.