Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel

Jenice Gharib and Valerie Martinez

uly 9/10, 2022
Jenice Gharib and Valerie Martinez on Coffee and Culture.
Gharib and Martinez have been working on CHART (Culture, History, Art, Reconciliation, and Truth), a project sanctioned and funded by the Governing Body of Santa Fe, in response to (but larger than) the toppling of the Soldier’s Monument on the Plaza. They talk about the project and the process with Matthew Chase-Daniel on this week’s Coffee and Culture.

Julie Chase-Daniel & Elizabeth Jacobson

June 25/26, 2022
Julie Chase-Daniel and Elizabeth Jacobson on Coffee and Culture.
Poetry Pollinators is a project which blends Poetry, Ecology and Art with a habitat for native pollinator bees. Created by Julie Chase-Daniel and Elizabeth Jacobson, the project opens with an installation on the banks of the Santa Fe River. The poet-organizers talk with Matthew Chase-Daniel on this week’s Coffee and Culture.

Tim Jag

June 25/26, 2022
Tim Jag on Coffee and Culture.
Tim Jag is an artist and organizer of printmaking fairs in Santa Fe. The third and largest of Jag’s events to date takes place on the Railyard Plaza on Sunday July 10th. Jag talks with Matthew Chase-Daniel on this week’s Coffee and Culture.

Brian Vallo

May 28/29, 2022
Brian Vallo on Coffee and Culture
Brian Vallo will be speaking at the upcoming TERRA conference in Santa Fe, recently worked on a redesign of the Native American Hall at the Field Museum in Chicago, and recently served three terms as Governor of Acoma Pueblo. He  works as consultant to museums and other institutions here and across the country.

Jeffrey Gibson

April 30/May 1, 2022
Jeffery Gibson on Coffee and Culture
Jeffery Gibson is a Choctaw/Cherokee artist living in Hudson, NY. The Body Electric is an exhibition at SITE Santa Fe opening on May 6. Gibson creates vibrant, multilayered works of art that express the complexities and relationships between injustice, marginalization, and personal identity.

Lara Evans

May 14/15, 2022
Lara Evans on Coffee and Culture
Lara Evans is the Director of the IAIA Research Center for Contemporary Native Arts and IAIA’s Artist in Residence program.

Marisa Sage

May 14/15, 2022
Marisa Sage on Coffee and Culture
Marisa Sage is the director and head curator of the New Mexico State University Art Museum in Las Cruces. She was one of the jurors for Southwest Contemporary’s 12 NM Artists to Know Now.

Virgil Ortiz

April 16 & 17, 2022
Virgil Ortiz on Coffee and Culture
Virgil Ortiz is an artist working in clay, fashion, and photography from his home in Cochiti Pueblo. In addition to working to revitalize clay traditions at Cochiti, he explores perspectives on the untold history of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 through storytelling and science fiction. He has been named the 2022 Living Treasure by the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture.

Nani Chacon

April 2 & 3, 2022
Nani Chacon on Coffee and Culture
Nanibah (Nani) Chacon is an artist living in Albuquerque. SPECTRUM, an exhibition of her work including drawings, paintings, and installation opens at SITE Santa Fe on April 8th and runs through August 22. SPECTRUM draws inspiration from Diné creation mythology as well as Chacon’s own experiences as a contemporary Indigenous artist.

Chris Jonas

MARCH 5, 2022
Chris Jonas on Coffee and Culture
Chris Jonas is a composer, sax player, filmmaker, and co-founder and co-director of Littleglobe in Santa Fe. He recently spent a winter month alone in the deserts of southern Arizona, sleeping outside, composing music, and embracing the creative possibilities inherent in isolation and boredom.