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 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 (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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 on Coffee and Culture

Feb. 2023