Interview with Pat Banks, May 24, 2011
Project: Artists of Kentucky: Eastern Kentucky Women Artists Working for Social Change Oral History Project
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Pat Banks discusses her childhood and her connection to Olive Hill, Kentucky and her grandparents. She also talks about her arts training and the struggle to make a living as an artist, as well as her suggestions for state-funded public art in Kentucky. She recounts the history of the Kentucky River Keeper (she is a founding board member) and her development of the Shaped by Water artists project. She expresses her focus regarding environmental concerns related to the river, such as levels of mercury in fish.Interview Accession
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Banks, Pat Interview by Joy Gritton. 24 May. 2011. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Banks, P. (2011, May 24). Interview by J. Gritton. Artists of Kentucky: Eastern Kentucky Women Artists Working for Social Change Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Banks, Pat, interview by Joy Gritton. May 24, 2011, Artists of Kentucky: Eastern Kentucky Women Artists Working for Social Change Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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