Exploring the multitudes of various artistic mediums such as writing, visual art, and fabric arts, LRAC's Artist Cohort Kandace Creel Falcón describes their art and the way she uses it to further explore many different societal subjects. Video Transcript
This video was produced by AMS Digital Productions.
Kandace Creel Falcón, Ph.D. (b.1981) is an interdisciplinary feminist scholar, writer, and visual artist. Their life’s passion grounds the power of narrative for social transformation.
As a Xicanx femme feminist, KCF’s work is driven to disrupt conventional notions related to femininity. Their academic pursuits have sought to better understand power through their interest in popular culture, the written word, and the circulation of images. While at the University of Kansas pursuing two B.A. degrees in Women’s Studies and Psychology with a minor in Leadership, visual media became the subject of their cultural studies honors thesis (2004). This research led to their pursuit of a Ph.D. in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota (2010) where she infused media analysis alongside their interdisciplinary oral history and narrative research. For fourteen years they taught interdisciplinary methods of feminist inquiry in higher education institutions where they earned tenure and directed a Women’s and Gender Studies program at a regional university.
As a digital storyteller, fatigued by words in 2018 as she drafted a book manuscript, KCF spontaneously enrolled in a visual arts class at the local community college. Through pursing an Associates of Fine Arts Degree (2020) KCF shifted from analyzing the meaning of visual art, popular culture mediums, and narrative formations toward making. Drawn to mixed-media methods of painting, fabric arts, and writing KCF brings together various mediums to make sense of the world around them. She lives and works in rural Erhard, MN.