Coffee & Culture with 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.

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.