Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel

Meridel Rubenstein

Meridel and Matthew Chase-Daniel talk about her wastewater garden project in Iraq, flood, drought, coracles, Noah, the future, the past, and her new body of work.

Terran Last Gun

March 4, 2023. Terran Last Gun chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about his show at Hecho Gallery, representation and abstraction, the sun and the moon, the tall mountains and the wide plains of Montana, Piikani culture, and Frank Stella and Joseph Albers.

John Flax

June 11/12, 2022
John Flax on Coffee and Culture
John Flax is the Founding Artistic Director of Theater Grottesco, founded in Paris in 1983 and thriving today in Santa Fe. Flax speaks about Grottesco’;s current performance,  SURVEY, a collaboration with with Burning Books and Axle Contemporary, as well as The Cirque de Paris, plaster in Paris, and leaving room for the intelligence of an audience. He talks with Matthew Chase-Daniel on this week’s Coffee and Culture.

Andrea Hanley

Andrea Hanley on Coffee and Culture
Feb. 2023Hanley talks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about California Stars, the new show she has curated at the Wheelwright, which includes fourteen important First California artists. There are California/New Mexico connections, works from the museum’s collection, borrowed works, new and old works. The artists’  works alternately deconstruct stereotypes or revitalize traditions.

Pedro Reyes

Pedro Reyes on Coffee and Culture
Feb. 2023Pedro Reyes is an artist from Mexico City whose show DIRECT ACTION is at SITE Santa Fe. Reyes’ work blends social and political activism with physical objects in stone, concrete and steel. Reyes talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about works from the show that engage a wide variety of topics and issues including nuclear weapons, gun violence, the 2nd amendment, libraries, food, music, and the United Nations.

Arlene Goldbard

Arlene Goldbard on Coffee and Culture
Jan. 2023Goldbard is a writer, a painter, a facilitator, and an arts activist. She talks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about her new book of writings and paintings which coalesced around eleven influences in her life, including Nina Simone, Alice Neel, and John Trudell. The book is In the Camp of Angels of Freedom: What Does It Mean to Be Educated? 

Edie Dillman

Edie Dillman on Coffee and Culture
Jan. 2023Dillman chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about B. Public, a startup benefit corporation here in Santa Fe which is creating modular high-efficiency building systems which produce near-net-zero homes.

Ross Hamlin

Ross Hamlin on Coffee and Culture
Dec 25, 2022Hamlin chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about music, teaching, working as an introverted bandleader, and the death and rebirth we might embrace at Christmas. Also featuring Rod Harrison’s recitation of a Christmas poem by Jeff Resta.

Hernan Gomez Chavez

Hernan Gomez Chavez on Coffee and CultureGomez Chavez talks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about welding, roses, the Virgin of Guadalupe, Gilberto Guzmán, multiculturalism in Santa Fe, and his sculpture project as an ode to the mural that was on the Halpin Building (now part of the New Mexico Museum of Art).

Dyanna Taylor

November 13/13, 2022
Dyanna Taylor, on Coffee and Culture
Taylor and Chase-Daniel talk about CENTER’s upcoming programs in Santa Fe, Her work on recent and upcoming films, the liberation of finding fresh uncharted media, and how Dorothea Lange’s work was part of photography’s importance in speaking truth and informing our world.