Alisa Banks Art

06/10/2026

05/12/2026

Had a great time last week. So proud of the wonderful, thoughtful work created by the participants enrolled in the “Speak Your Piece: Artists’s Books With Meaning” workshop!

04/23/2026

My first video (teeth gnashing!) of my latest book, A Day in Richmond. Thanks to for recording and for the inspiration.
More deets and pics in my latest newsletter. Link in bio.

01/10/2026

First newsletter of the new year! Please see link in bio.

11/14/2025

🌟 EXCITING NEWS! I'm thrilled to announce I'll be teaching at Handwork Week 2026 at !

Today marks the official launch of Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026! I'm honored to be part of this nationwide celebration as an instructor at 's Handwork Week.

Join me April 26-May 1 for Speak your Piece: Artist's Books With Meaning, an intensive workshop in book making as part of this historic Semiquincentennial initiative led by .

Over 250 organizations across all 50 states are coming together to celebrate the craft traditions that define America. I can't wait to be part of this transformative experience!

✨ 5 Days
✨ 10 Accomplished Instructors
✨ 1 Transformative Week

Learn more: bainbridgebarn.org/handwork2026

Images:
Wrongful Termination artist's book with Handwork logo
Black is Every Color artist's book
Things I'll Miss artist's book
Cotton Heritage artist's book detail

11/13/2025

🌟 EXCITING NEWS! I'm thrilled to announce I'll be teaching at Handwork Week 2026 at !

Today marks the official launch of Handwork: Celebrating American Craft 2026! I'm honored to be part of this nationwide celebration as an instructor at 's Handwork Week.

Join me April 26-May 1 for Speak your Piece: Artist's Books With Meaning, an intensive workshop in book making as part of this historic Semiquincentennial initiative led by .

Over 250 organizations across all 50 states are coming together to celebrate the craft traditions that define America. I can't wait to be part of this transformative experience!

✨ 5 Days
✨ 10 Accomplished Instructors
✨ 1 Transformative Week

Learn more: bainbridgebarn.org/handwork2026

Images:
Wrongful Termination artist's book with Handwork logo
Black is Every Color artist's book
Things I'll Miss artist's book
Cotton Heritage artist's book detail

03/22/2025

If you’re interested in learning more about my latest venture, please check the newsletter link in bio.

05/30/2024

Excited to check out an advance copy of Alabastron, a journal published by The journal "bridges the gap between academia and the public to explore aromatic history and culture." I'm enjoying the diverse offerings throughout. I'm also tickled to revisit my contribution, an embodied narrative that discusses the development and selection of scents featured in my artist's book, History of a People. To preorder your copy of the journal, please see link in bio.

Image 1: Journal cover
Image 2: Glimpse of my essay
Image 3: Back cover with list of contributors

05/10/2024

Thrilled to be amongst the finalists!

Please welcome the five Finalists of this year’s Sadakichi Award, reserved for creative or experimental practitioners who make use of scent in an unconventional or experimental manner that takes it out of the domain of traditional perfumery.

Citromancy, by Lion Wintersea aka Hannah Marcus, and a team of collaborators
A divination technique and performance series that uses scent-infused citrus fruit and fictitious narrative to guide participants through a ritual of discovery.

History of a People by Alisa Banks
A six-chapter, crown-shaped artist’s book with pages consisting of scents corresponding to cultural landscapes of African American history, beginning with Africa (Roots) and ending with the future (Visioning).

Scent Poems for Pipeline Plants by Lindsey French and Alex Young 
A multispecies broadcast incorporating plant signals and volatile organic compounds from human activity along the length of the 1000-plus miles of the contested Line 3 crude oil pipeline.

Smell & Paste by Jas Brooks and Pedro Lopes
A prototyping toolkit that lets people test olfactory experience ideas by using scratch-and-sniff stickers in a cassette, to draft & smell odor sequences.

Smell & Tell by Solène Cauvin-Wirz and Zoe Cogger
A 2-in-1 fun and interactive board game designed to boost sensory stimulation and increase social interaction within the elderly community.