Roski Talks: April Banks

Event details Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2026 Time: 7:00 PM Location: Roski Graduate Building - 1262 Palmetto Street, Los Angeles CA 90013 Cost: Free and open to the public Type: Arts Campus: Other Location Department: Roski School of Art and Design Audience: Students, Alumni, Faculty/Staff About this event Join us for Roski Talks with April Banks on October 20 at 7 p.m. at the Roski Graduate Building. April Banks is a Los Angeles–based artist who creates public art and public activations. Her practice sits at the intersection of place and experience, time traveling through historical archives and memories, questioning what we think we know of the past and how it informs our future identities. Deeply focused on community engagement, April is interested in amplifying lesser known stories and creating alternate narratives for the erased and intentionally forgotten. She is interested in building a commons that proposes moments of suspension from the weight of historical harm. Her current worldbending series, Outlandish, grafts her lush dream world into speculative places and societies, challenging us to reorient toward reciprocity over extraction. Outlandish has alchemized as a solo exhibition and public art sculpture at San Luis Obispo Museum of Art in 2024, an immersive tea and performance at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2025, and a leap year almanac in 2024, with the next volume to coincide with the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028. ROSKI TALKS: April Banks October 20, 2026 | 7 p.m. Roski Graduate Building 1262 Palmetto Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013 Free and open to the public #USCRoski #RoskiTalks Official event details: https://calendar.usc.edu/event/roski-talks-april-banks