Matfield Station

03/30/2024

Coming soon to the Matfield Station Prairy Art Path.

In a garden in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, Japan, sits an unconnected phone booth. No calls can be made or received, but visitors to the phone booth often linger for hours

07/04/2022

Matfield Station is hosting a series of worshops this summer presented by the local npo Matfield Green Works. Julia Fabris McBride will be facilitating on Saturday morning “Reconnecting to Inner Purpose on the PrairyArt Path.” Message us if you want more info or register at matfieldgreen.org

Connecting people to the earth and each other through art and prairie Summer Hangout Series Intimate gatherings with residents and visiting creative friends. The Bank Home of Matfield Green Works, an innovative art and welcome center on the Flint Hills Scenic Byway, currently under renovation. K-Sta...

06/25/2022

Matfield Station is proud to sponsor Playchella an all ages pride arts festival today. Naftzger Park

06/25/2022

Scavenger hunt. Come now!

Getting instructions. Come by the PrairyArt Path just north of Matfield Green for some scavenger hunt fun from now til 1pm.

06/04/2022

Can’t wait for Playchella ICT!

We are excited to welcome Station as the presenting sponsor for Playchella ICT! Looking forward to seeing everyone next month!

02/09/2022

A great shout out to Matfield Green and Matfield Station in the last few minutes of this video. Thanks, Wiseguys!

The Kansas Flint Hills are one of the hidden gems of the state, and on this video I took my buddy Brent Patton along to explore some of the tiny towns in the...

09/18/2021

We've updated the schedule for our October 2nd Artist Gathering & Exhibition in Matfield Green and are thrilled to be working with amazing community partners for a full day of events:

• Matfield Green Works (community open studios and reception at The Bank Art Space)
• School for Rural Culture & Creativity (Tallgrass artist exhibition, symposium and dinner)
• Matfield Station and Timber Arches/PrairyArt Path (bonfire and prairie beauty!)

Check out the event page for more details, and we'll see you in Matfield Green!

07/13/2021

So wonderful to see you amplifying the history of Mexican men and women who made their lives and raised their families on this land Kandace Creel Falcón

Posted • Matfield Station Bunkhouse View No.1
12”x12”
Acrylic on canvas paper
2021

While this morning we had what is known by Kansans as a “gullywasher” (I assume all Kansans use this term because my mama does), the clouds lifted enough for me to do an on-site study of one portion of the bunkhouse that once housed Mexican railroad laborers and their families in Matfield Green, KS. I’m doing studies like this while I’m at the . Tonight after meeting the folks who renovated the bunkhouse I learned there are maybe five or so across the country still standing that you could even visit. A testament to the lack of visible monuments of these hard workers’ presence, and the vision of people willing to preserve history. A part of US history often unknown and overlooked. So grateful for the opportunity to be here, and I may have just been recruited to help get this on the national registry of historical places. I’m up for the challenge!

ID: a painting representation of a stone brick structure with a red trimmed dark roof and blue green window and door set in a vibrant green summer prairie scene.

07/10/2021

So great to have you here this week Kandace!

Posted • Hi! Checking in from my first full day at where I’ve been painting outside in-between some thundering rainstorms! I’m here through next Friday and while I’m certainly excited to learn more about the Tallgrass Prairie, I’m most eager to engage my artist explorations of home and belonging, and the interactions between public and private spaces. While I live in West Central Minnesota where the prairie, lakes, and hardwood forests meet, I was born in the Kansas Flint Hills. Like the Bluestem Prairie, my roots are deep here - my Mexican American family moved to Kansas to work the railroad, and the Tallgrass Artist Residency houses artists in residents in a renovated Mexican laborer bunkhouse. This history of Mexican migration to Kansas is a part of me, and I’m so eager to continue to learn more about how the prairie remembers the various peoples who have lived here. I’ll be posting about my experience the next 10 days. I’ll also have an artist talk next week about what I’ve learned about me and this place. I hope you’ll join me!

[ID: A light brown Chicana in a tan straw hat, funky glasses, a white bandana, and blue cardigan, smiles at the camera via selfie in front of a passing train and a field of green prairie. A painter’s palate rests on the table where they work outside while the sun shines.]