Amber Dawn Bear Robe chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about Native Fashion Week Santa Fe, taking place all over the Railyard from May 8-11. The 4-day series of events includes talks, runway shows, shopping, and more. This is the first year of Bear Robe’s new project and she brings many years of experience in curating shows of Native Fashion and Arts. Come by and check out Orlando Dugi, Doug Miles, and many more designers and models from across our continent.

Banks and Chase-Daniel talk on and on about dinosaurs, ostrich eggs, deep time, fossils, Georgia O’Keeffe, bomb shelters, archeological digs, paleontology, and inspirations for Banks’ upcoming exhibition, Species Pending, at Axle Contemporary, part of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s Mobile Artist in Residency program.

Levy and Watts chat with Matthew about Levy’s upcoming artwork, Missing Waters, which will be created by a group of volunteers in the Railyard Park in late April. They also talk about water, control and freedom, beavers, rain, the origin of the word “thalweg,” if whirlpools reverse direction in the southern hemisphere, Watts’ eoartspace organization, and ephemeral art.

For the past nine years, Rose Eason has been the Executive Director for GallupARTS, tirelessly organizing for the arts and the community of McKinley County. She chats with Chase-Daniel about the upcoming (March 29) opening celebration of the Gallup New Deal Art Virtual Museum, a project conceived in 2017 and coming to fruition now. They also briefly talk about Creative West, The Creative Industries Division, the NEA and the NEH.

Inga Hendrickson chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about biological processes, color saturation, sewing fruit, motherhood, motivations and inspirations, cities and towns, The physicality of sculpture, and her exhibition at Axle Contemporary, These Cracks Weep.

Pando Speer and Dain Daller are an artist couple living one the land near Abiquiu and El Rito. They moved to New Mexico 15 years ago and learned to weave here at the Espanola Valley Fiber Arts Center. They show and sell their weavings as Warp Zone and travel the world to learn and share. They also built their own home and studio, an Earthship. They talk with Matthew Chase-Daniel about weaving, building, living and life.

Artist James Gould chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about SPRICKLE, his new sculpture just installed in the Railyard Park, about, the balance between control and freedom, about inspirations, about the benefits of age, about the Erie Canal, and about his fathers collection of old boards.

Kyle Paoletta’s new book, American Oasis, is a deep dive into the history of Southwestern cities, including Albuquerque, Phoenix, Tucson, El Paso, and Las Vegas. Paoletta helps us to learn from the past to help us prepare for the future of the Southwest and elsewhere as water resources evaporate and populations grow in a fragile environment. He chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about the environment, the history, the people, the politics, and possible futures.