Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel

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Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel presents conversations with artists, musicians, scientists, filmmakers, authors, innovators, cultural leaders, activists, and creative change makers from across New Mexico and around the country who are creatively exploring the world. Listen at chasedaniel.com or on most podcast platforms at Coffee and Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel.

  1. Brian Vallo

    MAY 11

    Brian Vallo

    Back on the show is Brian Vallo (Acoma) who has worked with Acoma potters to together curate an exhibition at the Museum of International Folk Art of figural work depicting humans and animals. The show draws from MoIFA’s ccollection, from other collections, and several commissioned works. He talk with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about the show, and a bit about some of his other work, repatriation through NAGPRA, and protecting Chaco Canyon.

    43 min
  2. Christopher Benson

    APR 30

    Christopher Benson

    Benson, an artist and writer here in Santa Fe chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about speaking in public, the hot new thing, the non-commercial art world, translucent ocean waves in the desert, avoiding formulaic work, supporting serious artists in Santa Fe, the invention of photography, writing about art as an artist, good and evil, greed, fear, and The Iroquois Confederacy.

    40 min
  3. Jessi Cross

    APR 14

    Jessi Cross

    Cross chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about her upcoming installation of life-size woodblock prints of New Mexico wildlife in the Santa Fe Railyard Park. They talk about varieties of plywood, wheatpasting, printmaking, Maine, Georgia O’Keeffe, looking up at trees in the night, and  artisanal cheese-making.

    43 min
  4. Kaela Waldstein

    MAR 31

    Kaela Waldstein

    Kaela Waldstein moved to Santa Fe eight years ago to follow a dream of making films about artists. With fresh eyes in a new place, she found inspiration, energy, and inspiring challenges. Working largely alone, she has made numerous documentary films about many of the compelling artists working here in Santa Fe. She chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about methods, techniques, approaches, and inspirations.

    43 min
  5. Ursala Hudson

    MAR 15

    Ursala Hudson

    Hudson (Tlingit, Filipino, German, English) chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about blues embedded in art practice, growing up with artist parents, pre-capitalist life ways, generosity, harmony, Tlingit formline design, aesthetics, and the differences between the seasonal life of Alaska and that of the Southwest.

    40 min

  6. MAR 2

    Melanie Kirby

    Kirby (Tortugas) chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about bees: the many varieties of bees. There are many species, but also great variation within species. Honey and other bee products are used traditionally not only for sweetness, but also as varnishes, lubricants, medicine, and antiseptic dressings and salves.  Bees, bees, bees. There is much to learn from bees, and Kirby brings an awareness of the vast web of interconnectedness among all living things on this planet.

    42 min
  7. Geoffrey Gorman

    FEB 21

    Geoffrey Gorman

    Geoffrey Gorman Gorman chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about art galleries in Santa Fe in the 1980s and 90s, and how that world has changed, about sharing knowledge with other artists, about birds and raccoons we have each known, about a shared wonder of and appreciation for the natural world, and about the spirit of old materials, and how he incorporates those materials into artwork.

    40 min

  8. FEB 3

    Janice Wall (interviews Matthew Chase-Daniel)

    A bit of an inversion this week. Artist Janice Wall interviews Matthew Chase-Daniel (instead of the other way around). They talk about making art in collaboration with other people, growing up in the unique culture of your own family, the joy of sunlight and ice crystals, and how everyone is interesting.

    41 min
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Coffee & Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel presents conversations with artists, musicians, scientists, filmmakers, authors, innovators, cultural leaders, activists, and creative change makers from across New Mexico and around the country who are creatively exploring the world. Listen at chasedaniel.com or on most podcast platforms at Coffee and Culture with Matthew Chase-Daniel.

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