Tonya talks with host Matthew Chase-Daniel about the upcoming exhibition by Nadya Tolokonnikova at Turner Carrol Gallery in Santa Fe, as well as Tonya’s approach to art-making and her recent durational performance at MOCA in L.A. which was shut down because the police state came to the neighborhood. Also presented are some excerpts from some of the artist’s recordings from her own work and as part of Pussy Riot.

We5 is an ad-hoc group of five visual artists who are participating in the Santa Fe Studio tour, Paula Roland, Gina Telcocci, Linda Ingraham, Diane Rolnick, and Robert Wilhelm. Three of the artists visit with host Matthew Chase-Daniel to talk about the joys of visiting an artist’s studio, the relation between art and nature, hiking the spiny Organ Mountains, swamps and seas, and the resilience of willow.

CENTER has a new photography gallery space in Santa Fe and the inaugural exhibition is being co-curated by Mary Anne Redding. She has long involvement with CENTER and is senior curator at The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts in North Carolina. Rubenstein is one of four artists in the exhibition. All four are past CENTER awardees and explore issues of the nuclear weapons industry, including science, mining, testing, and effects on local communities of all phases of the nuclear weapons complex, here in New Mexico and afar. Matthew Chase-Daniel talks with the artist and the curator about the work in the show, the artists, and the importance of addressing the important fallout of the industry in our communities.