A bit of an inversion this week. Artist Janice Wall interviews Matthew Chase-Daniel (instead of the other way around). They talk about making art in collaboration with other people, growing up in the unique culture of your own family, the joy of sunlight and ice crystals, and how everyone is interesting.

Jade Begay (Tesuque Pueblo/Diné), works at the intersections of Indigenous rights and climate and environmental justice, shaping national and international policy. Jade has worked with Indigenous-led organizations and Tribes from the Amazon to the Arctic to advance Indigenous-led solutions and self-determination through advocacy campaigns, research, storytelling and narrative strategies. Her new podcast, Jaded, has just dropped, though Indigenous House.

Weiss chats from his Santa Monica California home with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about Mice on Crack, Beaver Shot, Prometheus, the Garden, and Old News, a daily email he’s been sending out to a growing group of people every day for the past 25 years. Weiss sees his art as a subtractive process rather than additive, something he honed as a photographer, and now brings forth into other artforms.

Yuki Murata chats with Matthew Chase-Daniel about art, feet on the ground, Iceland, Svalbard, Volcanoes, Japan, slip-casting porcelain, carrying canvases through the landscape, the solidity of a square, and control and surrender.

Byrne runs KMRD-LP, a freeform, volunteer-run, commercial-free, and listener-supported Low Power FM community radio station, based in Madrid, NM. Frazar-Smith directs H+H Arts, a community non-profit art space on Canyon Road in Santa Fe. We talk about both of these things, and why projects like these might be important in our time.

Garcia (Kha’p’o Owinghe) and Murphy have curated an exhibition, Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country, which is on view art the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum through September 2027. The exhibition includes artworks and texts by artists and cultural knowledge holders from all of the Tewa-speaking Pueblos in New Mexico and Arizona, and related works by O'Keeffe. The contemporary Tewa artworks speak of long relationships to land and sky and place, and of both commonalities and tensions between the lives and work of these artists and the life and work of O’Keeffe.

Artist and SFAI resident Joseph Arnoux (Blackfeet/Spokane) and SFAI director Toccarra Thomas join host Matthew Chase-Daniel to discuss the new BMX ramp Arnoux is making and the symbols and designs that reference Blackfeet tipi designs. They also touch on kinnikinnick, childhood, making one’s way as an artist, relationships and traumas that arise in family, and the program and resources offered at SFAI.

Wheeler grew up in southern New Mexico, near White Sands. In his new novel, The High Heaven, he explores the parallel rise of space travel and television through the (shining) eyes of a young girl orphaned from a local cult and through her life and travels: on a ranch near White Sands, throughout Texas, and into New Orleans, over the course of her lifetime. Wheeler chats with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about the book, the places, unusual experiences, and always the moon.