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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

MARCH 19, 2022

Frank Rose on Coffee and Culture

Frank Rose is the director and owner of Hecho a Mano on Canyon Road. On April 1st, Hecho, his new big gallery, will open at 129 W Palace Avenue, just off the Plaza in Santa Fe. The new space gives room for larger works, bigger exhibitions, events and installations. Rose talks about his plans in conversation with Matthew Chase-Daniel on this week’s Coffee and Culture.