Working the Remanent: Artist Talk with Alisa Banks

Location: Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

Address: 550 Winslow Way East Bainbridge Island WA 98110

Contact Email: info@biartmuseum.org

Website: Event Link

Date: Saturday May 2, 2026

Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Presented in partnership with Bainbridge Artisan Resource Network (BARN) as part of Handwork 2026.

In this intimate, conversational program, internationally recognized book artist Alisa Banks will explore how stories, memory, and history shape her ongoing quest to forge connections with her cultural heritage. Through what she calls “root reading,” Banks investigates the remnants—material, historical, and emotional—that have survived displacement and erasure, using them as pathways back to identity, lineage, and place. Banks’s work, held in major collections including the Smithsonian Institution, the British Library, and BIMA’s Cynthia Sears Artists’ Books Collection, insists that stories are not confined to written language.