Nicholas Galanin on Coffee and Culture

Nicholas Galanin/Yéil Ya-Tseen (Lingit/Unangax̂) is a multidisciplinary artist from Sitka Alaska whose work is made in relation to culture, identity, and land. He works in a wide variety of materials, in varying scales and wide-ranging locations. He speaks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about his upcoming exhibition at SITE Santa Fe, Land Back, studying in London and Aotearoa, confronting difficult truths through art, and the value of being rooted in a multi-generational family of Llingit artists.

New Mexico Museum of Art-Vladem Contemporary opened in 2023 with Shadow and Light. Listen to a conversation with Christian Waguespack (Director of Curatorial Affairs), Katie Doyle (Assistant Curator), and the new Curator of Contemporary Art, Alexandra Terry. With host Matthew Chase-Daniel, they discuss the new building, the new exhibition, the Artist-in-Residence program, the Window Box, The Digital Window, The Leo Villareal LED installation, Rick Dillingham, Beatrice Wood, Yayoi Kusama and Georgia O’Keeffe.

August Muth and host Matthew Chase-Daniel talk about holograms, light, sound, the universe, reproduction of moments in time in holography and photography, the 4th dimension, beautiful colors of gas lasers, the Light and Shadow exhibition at the Vladem Museum, wavelengths, and Bruce Nauman’s DNA.

Kathleen McCloud is an artist who grows and forages plants to process for dyes and pigments in her current body of work at GF Contemporary. She uses, painting, collage, and other techniques to produce her mixed media work. She and Matthew Chase-Daniel talk about her process, photography, Emily Dickinson, Van Morrison, grids, rhythm, and the transitory impermanence of things and lives.

Shapland’s newest book, Thin Skin, is a collection of essays which explore many diverse themes but are all tied together through concepts of both vulnerability and interconnectedness.  Chase-Daniel and Shapland discuss the book and moths, vegetarianism, art, responsibility, shopping, capitalism, buddhism, and the nuclear weapons complex in New Mexico.

Bryson talks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about collaborations in art and farming with people and non-human beings, about ephemeral art in a time of climate crisis, about compost and decay as a springboard for life, and about her work both at Axle Contemporary’s Fibrous Otherworlds exhibition and on the Lena Wall.

Cody chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel in Pinehill/Ramah about his art, weaving as a way to overcome things that get in our way, healing, focus, living a life within the four sacred mountains, night skies, Changing Woman, depictions of everyday life, and bringing light to our struggles. His weavings will be featured in Fibrous Otherworlds at Axle Contemporary.

Judy Tuwaletstiwa talks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about genesis, genius, frogs, pollywogs, polio, teaching, learning, card tricks, death, heart, her new book made in collaboration with her grandson, TikTok, and her exhibition at Pie Projects.

Fatima Ronquillo is a self-taught Philippines-born painter who has been living and working in Santa Fe for the past fifteen years. She exhibits her work at Meyer Gallery on Canyon Road, and will have a solo exhibition at the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos from June 30-September 24. Ronquillo speaks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about the mixture of sharp details with soft faces in her painting, procrastination, mythology, and learning about art by copying drawings.

Sara Daniele Rivera is a poet, novelist, translator, artist, and educator from Albuquerque. She speaks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about her work, about her big first book award from the Academy of American Poets, about grief and deserts, about Project Interchange with Friends of the Orphan Signs, and about Moby Dick and detailed descriptions of worlds. And she reads poems.