MacRostie Art Center will host a Virtual Artist Talk event with interdisciplinary feminist scholar, writer and visual artist Kandace Creel Falcón, Wednesday, January 20th from 6-7 p.m. The event will take place online via Zoom and the public is invited to attend.Â
Kandace Creel Falcón holds a Ph.D. in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota and taught Womenâs and Gender Studies from 2005-2019. Fatigued by words in 2018 as she drafted a book manuscript, Creel Falcón enrolled in a visual arts class at the local community college on a whim. Through pursing an Associates of Fine Arts Degree, she 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, Creel Falcón brings together various mediums to make sense of the world around them, as she lives and works in rural Erhard, MN.Â
Racism, Land & The American Farming Landscape
Presenters:
Lydia Clemmons, President of Clemmons Family Farm, VT
Jarrad Nwameme,
Moderator: Meghan Howey, Professor in Anthropology, University of New Hampshire
In 1920, there were 949,889 Black farmers. A century later, according to the 2017 Census of Agriculture, only 35,470 remained.
This panel will investigate the contributing factors to this enormous land loss including discriminatory practices, such as the denial of USDA loans. and slow handling of civil rights complaints. Presenters will also share the innovative ways Black New England Farmers are reclaiming the land and sowing the seeds of health and empowerment.
Moderator: Dennis Britton, Department of English, University of New Hampshire, NH