Best Lena Thomas Podcasts (2024)

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Bob Haozous 42:34

10d ago42:34

42:34

Bob Haozous is a sculptor, living here in Santa Fe, and has been making his work for more than 50 years. Bob chats in his studio with Matthew about culture, knowledge, craft, relationship, money, meaning, messengers, censorship, and art.By Matthew Chase-Daniel

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Rapheal Begay 42:00

21d ago42:00

42:00

Rapheal Begay is a Diné photographer based in Window Rock. He talks with Matthew about ALL REZ, an exhibition of his photos, traveling across the Navajo Nation with Axle Contemporary and the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, during the month of June- and coming to Santa Fe from June 27-30. They also discuss language, museums, sheep, and photography.…

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Israel Haros Lopez 41:25

1M ago41:25

41:25

Israel Haros Lopez talks with Matthew about the Barrio Art School, Alas de Agua, Barrio Universe City, making art, working with people, education, opportunities, and Santa Fe.By Matthew Chase-Daniel

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Joe David and Francesco Siqueiros 41:22

2M ago41:22

41:22

Artists Joe David (Nuu-chah-nulth) and Francesco Siqueiros talk with Matthew Chase-Daniel about their exhibition at the Yuma Art Center, their youth in Yuma, early exposure to art in their lives, and the cultural values that inspire the work they do.By Matthew Chase-Daniel

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David Scheinbaum and Laureta Huit 41:05

2M ago41:05

41:05

Thirty years ago photographer David Scheinbaum accompanied his parents on a trip back to the beaches of Normandy where his father had been part of the Normandy Invasion during WWII fifty years before, Scheinbaum recorded the experience in photographs and journals, and was transformed by a new understanding of his father. Scheinbaum and NM Military …

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Andrew Lovato 41:25

2M ago41:25

41:25

Andrew Lovato is the City Historian and chair of the Arts Commission for the City of Santa Fe. He talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about history, stories, time, culture, listening, tourism, architecture and art.By Matthew Chase-Daniel

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Avra Leodas 36:55

2M ago36:55

36:55

Avra Leodas talks with Matthew about the Santa Fe Extension Master Gardener’s Fair (May 11th) and all that is happening there and what the Master Gardeners do: Plant sale, tool sale, pest questions answered, composting, soil health, demonstration gardens, education, music, food, and more great stuff like that.…

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Brian Fleetwood 39:42

2M ago39:42

39:42

Artist Brian Fleetwood (Mvskoke) talks with Matthew about his artist-in residence project, Place/Holding, with the O’Keeffe Museum’s Art to G.O. and Axle Contemporary. The conversation touches on how jewelry and adornment can mediate between our bodies and the rest of the world around us, virology, immunity, cultural wisdom, plastic recycling, Okla…

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Michelle Korte and Lena Weiss of Herstory Printmaking Collective 41:09

2M ago41:09

41:09

Michelle Korte and Lena Weiss of Herstory Printmaking Collective talk with Matthew about their Women of The Rails project which they’ll be pasting up in the Santa Fe Railyard on April 20th, as part of the Railyard Art Project. They elucidate some of the history and personalities involved with railroads in America from the mid 1800s to the present.…

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Chip Thomas (jetsonorama) 41:40

2M ago41:40

41:40

In the late 1980s, Chip Thomas (jetsonorama) moved to a rural area of the Navajo Nation to work as a physician in a health clinic. He hoped to manage to stay for four years, and fell in love with the land and the people and the culture and stayed for 36 years. Since 2009, he has been installing large-scale photos, pasted onto mostly abandoned build…

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Charine Pilar Gonzales 39:13

3M ago39:13

39:13

Charine Pilar Gonzales is a filmmaker from San Ildefonso Pueblo. She talks about Pueblo storytelling, clay traditions and film, family, community, recent projects and awards, her film River Bank (Po-Kehgeh) upcoming projects, and Sundance.By Matthew Chase-Daniel

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John Brandi 41:19

3M ago41:19

41:19

John Brandi is a poet, essayist and painter. He has lived in New Mexico since 1971. His newest book, A Luminous Uplift: Landscape and Memoir is a collection of writings that explore land, light, culture, and spirit in his experiences across the planet, including Ecuador, Southern California, India, Bali, and Northern New Mexico. Matthew has a conve…

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Jesse Wilson 41:53

3M ago41:53

41:53

Jesse Wilson talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about SAFE HAVEN, her art installation at Axle Contemporary, and Ogres, mythology, feelings, winter, warmth, life choices, solitude, art and business, creative practice, expression, and integrity.By Matthew Chase-Daniel

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The Aunties: Nora Naranjo Morse, Deborah Jackson Taffa, Kendra Mylnechuck Potter 42:38

3M ago42:38

42:38

The Aunties: Women of the White Shell Water Place features 3 local indigenous women speaking and sharing stories of place, community, and culture. Host Matthew Chase-Daniel talks with 2 of the Aunties, Nora Naranjo Morse (Kha’p’o Owenge (Santa Clara Pueblo)) and Deborah Jackson Taffa (Quechan (Kwatsáan)/ Laguna), along with the performance’s direct…

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b brown 41:53

3M ago41:53

41:53

b brown has been making ceramics for 30 years but is just now beginning to exhibit her work. Much of what came out of her kiln in the past was immediately destroyed by the artist herself. The process of working for her has been one of searching, questioning, and learning. Now brown is exhibiting her latest work of sculptural ceramics at Hecho a Man…

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Chelsey Johnson 39:58

3M ago39:58

39:58

Johnson is the director of the Santa Fe Arts and Culture Department. She talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about the various funding and support programs that the department offers as well as the Poet Laureate and City Historian programs. They also talk about her novel, Stray City, and how it adresses concepts of family and community, and how th…

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Suzanne Fricke 41:01

4M ago41:01

41:01

Matthew talks with Fricke about her new book, As We See It, published by UNM Press. The book centers the voices of ten Native American Photographers, Jamison Chās Banks, Anna Hoover, Tom Jones, Larry McNeil, Shelley Niro, Wendy Red Star, Beverly R. Singer, Matika Wilbur, William Wilson, and Tiffiney Yazzie. They also talk about her work running Gal…

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Danny Lyon 43:06

5M ago43:06

43:06

Danny Lyon has been a force in the world of photography for sixty years. In the early 1960s he was the staff photographer for SNCC, and has created countess series of photos and films since that time, across the US and in Haiti, Mexico, and Columbia. He chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about his upcoming memoir, This is My Life I'm Talking Abou…

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Blackhorse Lowe 43:23

5M ago43:23

43:23

Blackhorse Lowe talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about writing and directing films and television, bringing his Navajo culture to light through his films, language, insight, family teachings, and his uncle’s vast collection of films and music that influenced him as a teenager in rural Northwestern New Mexico.…

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Ileana Alarcón 39:28

6M ago39:28

39:28

Ileana Alarcón is a Columbian-American artist currently working with paper pulp to create sculptures which are both familiar and unexpected. A bench manages invokes a giraffe, a horse and a shower. Alarcón feels most comfortable in naturally formed spaces free from the right angles that dominate our living spaces. The works are inspired by natural …

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Lucy Lippard 42:37

6M ago42:37

42:37

Lucy Lippard At age 86, Lucy Lippard is as busy, witty, and thoughtful as ever. She chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about her new non-memoir (her 27th book), learning to ride horses on branches of Maine oaks, collaboration, multiculturalism, place, relationships, work, climate, academia, and Patsy Montana.…

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Nicholas Galanin 42:21

6M ago42:21

42:21

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 exhi…

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Christian Waguespack, Katie Doyle, and Alexandra Terry 41:17

8M ago41:17

41:17

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 Arti…

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August Muth 42:31

8M ago42:31

42:31

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.By Matthew Chase-Daniel

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Kathleen McCloud 40:23

8M ago40:23

40:23

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 transit…

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Jenn Shapland 41:30

8M ago41:30

41:30

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 Mexic…

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Kaitlin Bryson 21:57

10M ago21:57

21:57

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.…

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Titus Steiner Cody 20:41

10M ago20:41

20:41

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 Axl…

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Judy Tuwaletstiwa 40:59

10M ago40:59

40:59

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.By Matthew Chase-Daniel

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Fatima Ronquillo 41:27

11M ago41:27

41:27

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 …

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Sara Daniele Rivera 41:08

11M ago41:08

41:08

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 worl…

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Critical Mass Roundtable 56:11

11M ago56:11

56:11

Selections from a Roundtable Discussion from Tuesday, August 8th, 2023 at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe, NM in conjunction with Meridel Rubenstein's Critical Mass exhibition. With Alicia Inez Guzman, Roshi Joan Halifax, Josie Lopez, Meridel Rubenstein, Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez, and Rebecca Solnit. Moderated by Tonya Turner Carroll. Aud…

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Adam Jonas Horowitz 39:36

12M ago39:36

39:36

Adam Jonas Horowitz on Coffee and Culture Horowitz is a filmmaker, artist, journalist, and activist who works to try to improve the condition of the world. He speaks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about plastics, recycling, war crimes, history, complicity, responsibility, bulldozers, Stonehenge, extinction, climate change, and new projects he’s working …

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David Breecker 41:17

12M ago41:17

41:17

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 …

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Rick Phelps 39:58

12M ago39:58

39:58

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.…

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Marwin Begaye 20:34

1y ago20:34

20:34

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 M…

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Dennis McNett 20:14

1y ago20:14

20:14

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.By Matthew Chase-Daniel

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Basia Irland 19:57

1y ago19:57

19:57

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.By Matthew Chase-Daniel

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Paula Castillo 20:20

1y ago20:20

20:20

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: …

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Meridel Rubenstein 39:41

1y ago39:41

39:41

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.By Matthew Chase-Daniel

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Terran Last Gun 40:16

1y ago40:16

40:16

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.By Matthew Chase-Daniel

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John Flax 40:14

1+ y ago40:14

40:14

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 l…

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Andrea Hanley 41:23

1+ y ago41:23

41:23

Andrea Hanley on Coffee and Culture Feb. 2023 Hanley talks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about California Stars, the new show she has curated at the Wheelwright, which includes fourteen important First California artists. There are California/New Mexico connections, works from the museum’s collection, borrowed works, new and old works. The artists’ wor…

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Pedro Reyes 42:09

1+ y ago42:09

42:09

Pedro Reyes on Coffee and Culture Feb. 2023 Pedro Reyes is an artist from Mexico City whose show DIRECT ACTION is at SITE Santa Fe. Reyes’ work blends social and political activism with physical objects in stone, concrete and steel. Reyes talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about works from the show that engage a wide variety of topics and issues …

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Arlene Goldbard 40:29

1+ y ago40:29

40:29

Arlene Goldbard on Coffee and Culture Jan. 2023 Goldbard is a writer, a painter, a facilitator, and an arts activist. She talks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about her new book of writings and paintings which coalesced around eleven influences in her life, including Nina Simone, Alice Neel, and John Trudell. The book is In the Camp of Angels of Freedom…

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Edie Dillman 42:43

1+ y ago42:43

42:43

Edie Dillman on Coffee and Culture Jan. 2023 Dillman chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about B. Public, a startup benefit corporation here in Santa Fe which is creating modular high-efficiency building systems which produce near-net-zero homes.By Matthew Chase-Daniel

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Ross Hamlin 41:03

1+ y ago41:03

41:03

Ross Hamlin on Coffee and Culture Dec 25, 2022 Hamlin chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about music, teaching, working as an introverted bandleader, and the death and rebirth we might embrace at Christmas. Also featuring Rod Harrison’s recitation of a Christmas poem by Jeff Resta.By Matthew Chase-Daniel

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Hernan Gomez Chavez 39:44

1+ y ago39:44

39:44

Hernan Gomez Chavez on Coffee and Culture Gomez Chavez talks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about welding, roses, the Virgin of Guadalupe, Gilberto Guzmán, multiculturalism in Santa Fe, and his sculpture project as an ode to the mural that was on the Halpin Building (now part of the New Mexico Museum of Art).…

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Dyanna Taylor 38:10

1+ y ago38:10

38:10

November 13/13, 2022 Dyanna Taylor, on Coffee and Culture Taylor and Chase-Daniel talk about CENTER’s upcoming programs in Santa Fe, Her work on recent and upcoming films, the liberation of finding fresh uncharted media, and how Dorothea Lange’s work was part of photography’s importance in speaking truth and informing our world.…

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Jennifer Schlessinger 39:48

1+ y ago39:48

39:48

November 26/27, 2022 Jennifer Schlessinger on Coffee and Culture Schlessinger talks with Matthew Chase-Daniel about one-of-a-kind photography, photo history, spirit, masks, and the upcoming 6-person exhibit at Obscura Gallery.By Matthew Chase-Daniel

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