Eager to Learn , Kandace Creel Falcón

In this pair of paintings, Kandace Creel Falcón visualizes feminist knowledge by narrating the little-known history of Mexican labor in Kansas to construct U.S. railroads. Falcón uses spatial distortion to suggest the central importance of Mexican American women’s labor both inside and outside the home. As a self-described Xicanx femme feminist, Falcón disrupts conventional notions of femininity and in this case historical labor topics, including the erasure of their ancestors from this landscape. Falcón is an alum of the University of Kansas.