Education

• The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), BFA
• Lewis University, Romeoville, IL, BA in Fine Art and Chemistry

Work History

• 2001 to present, Collections Assistant, Chief Mammals Preparator, The Field Museum of Natural History, photographs and illustrates skulls, skeletons, skins and animal mounts, designs maps and graphics for the web and scientific publications
• 2012 – 2017, Art Instructor, Mayslake Peabody Estate, instructed drawing, painting and scientific illustration classes to grammar school, high school and adult students

Solo and Group Exhibitions

• 2022 The President’s 14th Annual Art Exhibit, Group Show, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
• 2021 The President’s 13th Annual Art Exhibit, Group Show, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
• 2021 Women in Art at the Field, Group Show, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL, Artist Gallery Talk https://www.facebook.com/lewisu.edu/videos/212104274033317
  
• 2020 The President’s 12th Annual Art Exhibit, Group Show, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL, On-line show: https://spark.adobe.com/video/gFrNBcomJo7TN/.
• 2019 Mayslake Holiday Market, Group Show, Mayslake Peabody Estate, Oak Brook, IL
• 2019 The President’s 11th Annual Art Exhibit, Group Show, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
• 2018 Mayslake Holiday Market, Group Show, Mayslake Peabody Estate, Oak Brook, IL
• 2018 St. Symphorosa Parish’s Holiday Extravaganza, Sharp Building, Chicago, IL
• 2018 The President’s 10th Annual Art Exhibit, Group Show, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
• 2017 Mayslake Holiday Market, Group Show, Mayslake Peabody Estate, Oak Brook, IL
• 2017 Fine Art for Finer Lives, Group Show, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
• 2017 The President’s 9th Annual Art Exhibit, Group Show, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
• 2016 Mayslake Holiday Market, Group Show, Mayslake Peabody Estate, Oak Brook, IL
• 2016 The World of Birds, Group Show, Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods, Riverwoods, IL
• 2016 AAF @ the Field Museum, Group Show, Harris Education Center, Field Museum, Chicago, IL
• 2016 The President’s 8th Annual Art Exhibit, Group Show, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
• 2015 Mayslake Holiday Market, Group Show, Mayslake Peabody Estate, Oak Brook, IL
• 2015 The President’s 7th Annual Art Exhibit, Group Show, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
• 2014 Mayslake Holiday Market, Group Show, Mayslake Peabody Estate, Oak Brook, IL
• 2014 Mayslake Visual Arts Faculty Show, Group Show, Mayslake Peabody Estate, Oak Brook, IL
• 2014 The President’s 6th Annual Art Exhibit, Group Show, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
• 2013 Mayslake Holiday Market, Group Show, Mayslake Peabody Estate, Oak Brook, IL
• 2012 HCA Faculty Art Show, Group Show, HCA, Hinsdale, IL
• 2011 Objects of Affection, Group Show, HCA, Hinsdale, IL
• 2010 Adornments 2010, Group Show, HCA, Hinsdale, IL
• 2009 Natural Science: Art and the Natural World, Group Show, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, IL
• 2009 Adornments 2009, Group Show, HCA, Hinsdale, IL
• 2008 Adornments on Washington, Group Show, HCA, Hinsdale, IL
• 2008 Currents Faculty Exhibition, Group Show, HCA, Hinsdale, IL
• 2007 Adornments on First, Group Show, HCA, Hinsdale, IL
• 2006 to 2007 Hinsdale Chorale, Group Show, HCA, Hinsdale, IL
• 2006 Best of the West, Group Show, HCA, Hinsdale IL
• 2004 Images of Animals, Group Show, Aurora Public Art Commission, Aurora, IL
• 2004 Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival, Group Show, Chicago, IL
• 2003 to 2006 Around the Coyote Winter Arts Festival, Group Show, Chicago, IL
• 2001 Undergraduate Art Show for the SAIC, Group Show, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
• 1994 and 1997 Senior Art Show, Solo Show, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL

Websites

• The Brush Hilt, Rebe Banasiak, Artist https://banasiakart.com
• The Brush Hilt Shop, https://thebrushhilt.square.site/
• Mammals of Tanzania, http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/tanzania/index.html
• Artists at the field, https://artistatthefield.wordpress.com

Interviews/Blog posts

• 2022 Spring, SAIC Magazine, Expert Advice from Rebecca Banasiak, Chief Mammals Preparator of the Field Museum of Natural History, https://www.saic.edu/magazine/spring22/expert-advice-rebecca-banasiak
• 2021 March, The Art of Specimen Preparation, https://www.facebook.com/22202087272/videos/714642965856670
• 2021 March, Women in Art at the Field, Lewis University Artist Gallery Talk, https://www.facebook.com/lewisu.edu/videos/212104274033317
  
• 2017 March, Women in Science and Art: Rebecca Banasiak, Mammals Collections Assistant and Preparator, https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/women-science-and-art-rebecca-banasiak-mammals-collections-assistant-and-preparator

Publications

• 2020 Julian C Kerbis Peterhans, Rainer Hutterer, Jeffrey B Doty, Jean M Malekani, David C Moyer, Jarmila Krásová, Josef Bryja, Rebecca A Banasiak, Terrence C Demos. 2020. Four new species of the Hylomyscus anselli group (Mammalia: Rodentia: Muridae) from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania.  Bonn zoological Bulletin 69 (1): 55–83. ISSN 2190–7307. doi: 10.20363/BZB-2020.69.1.055.
• 2016 Illustration credits. Stanley W. T., Kihaule P. M. 2016. Elevational Distribution and Ecology of Small Mammals on Tanzania’s Second Highest Mountain. PLoS ONE 11(9): e0162009. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0162009
• 2015 Michael D. Carleton, Rebecca A. Banasiak, William T. Stanley. 2015. A new species of the rodent genus Hylomyscus from Angola, with a distributional summary of the H. anselli species group (Muridae: Murinae: Praomyini). Zootaxa 4040 (2): 101–128. Zootaxa
• 2014 Illustration and design credits. Stanley W. T., Rogers M. A., Kihaule P. M., Munissi M. J. 2014. Elevational Distribution and Ecology of Small Mammals on Africa’s Highest Mountain. PLoS ONE 9(11): e109904. doi:10.
• 2014 Photography credits. Authors Rowe, K. C., A. S. Achmadi & J. A. Esselstyn. 2014. Convergent evolution of aquatic foraging in a new genus and species (Rodentia: Muridae) from Sulawesi Island, Indonesia. Zootaxa. 3815:541–564. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3815.4.5.
• 2013 Photography credits. Stanley, W. T., L. W. Robbins, J. M. Malekani, S. G. Mbalitini, D. A. Migurimu, J. C. Mukinzi, J. Hulselmans, V. Prévot, E. Verheyen, R. Hutterer, J. B. Doty, B. P. Monroe, Y. J. Nakazawa, Z. Braden, D. Carroll, J. C. Kerbis Peterhans, J. M. Bates & J. A. Esselstyn. 2013. A new hero emerges: another exceptional mammalian spine and its potential adaptive significance. Biology Letters. 9:20130486. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2013.0486.
• 2012 Photography and design credits. Authors Carleton, M. D. and W. T. Stanley. 2012. Species limits within the Praomys delectorum group (Rodentia: Muridae: Murinae) of East Africa: A morphometric reassessment and biogeographic implications. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165: 420-469.
• 2012 Photography credits. Esselstyn, J. A., A. S. Achmadi & K. C. Rowe. 2012. Evolutionary novelty in a rat with no molars. Biology Letters. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2012.0574
• 2011 Illustration, photography and design credits. Authors Stanley, W. T. 2011. Preface. In Stanley, W. T., ed., Studies of Montane Vertebrates of Tanzania. Fieldiana: Life and Earth Sciences, vol. 4. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.
• 2011 Illustration, photography and design credits. Authors Stanley, W. T., S.M. Goodman, and W.D. Newmark. 2011. Small mammal inventories in the East and West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. 1.  Study areas, methodologies, and general results, pp. 1-17. In Stanley, W. T., ed., Studies of Montane Vertebrates of Tanzania. Fieldiana: Life and Earth Sciences, vol. 4. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.
• 2011 Illustration, photography and design credits. Authors Stanley, W. T., and S.M. Goodman. 2011. Small mammal inventories in the East and West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. 2.  Families Soricidae (Shrews) and Macroscelididae (Elephant Shrews), pp. 18-33. In Stanley, W. T., ed., Studies of Montane Vertebrates of Tanzania. Fieldiana: Life and Earth Sciences, vol. 4. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.
• 2011 Illustration, photography and design credits. Authors Stanley, W. T., and S.M. Goodman. 2011. Small mammal inventories in the East and West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. 3.  Chiroptera, pp. 34-52. In Stanley, W. T., ed., Studies of Montane Vertebrates of Tanzania. Fieldiana: Life and Earth Sciences, vol. 4. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.
• 2011 Illustration, photography and design credits. Authors Stanley, W. T., and S.M. Goodman. 2011. Small mammal inventories in the East and West Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. 4.  Rodentia, pp. 53-73. In Stanley, W. T., ed., Studies of Montane Vertebrates of Tanzania. Fieldiana: Life and Earth Sciences, vol. 4. Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago.
• 2009 Illustration credits. Authors Olbricht, G. and W. T. Stanley. 2009. The topographic distribution of the penis and mammary glands in sengis (Macroscelidea), and its usefulness for taxonomic distinctions. Zoosystematics and Evolution 85: 297-303.
• 2008 Photography and design credits. Authors Stanley, W. T. 2008. A new species of Mops (Molossidae) from Pemba Island, Tanzania. Acta Chiropterologica 10: 183-192.
• 2006 Photography credits. Authors Davenport, T. R. B., W. T. Stanley, E. J. Sargis, D. W. De Luca, N. E. Mpunga, S. J. Machaga & L. E. Olson. 2006. A new genus of African monkey, Rungwecebus: morphology, ecology, and molecular phylogenetics. Science 312: 1378-1381.
• 2005 Photography and design credits. Authors Carleton, M.D. & W.T. Stanley. 2005. Review of the Hylomyscus denniae complex (Rodentia: Muridae) in Tanzania, with description of a new species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 118: 619-646
• 2005 Illustration, photography and design credits. Authors Stanley, W. T. & L. E. Olson. 2005. Phylogeny, phylogeography, and geographic variation of Sylvisorex howelli (Family Soricidae), an endemic shrew of the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania. Journal of Zoology 266: 341-354.
• 2005 Illustration and photography credits. Authors Stanley, W. T., M. A. Rogers, & R. Hutterer. 2005. A new species of Congosorex from the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania, with significant biogeographical implications. Journal of Zoology 265: 269-280.
• 2004 Photography credits for Figures 2-4. Authors Stanley, W. T., & D. Kock. 2004. New records and notes on Laephotis Thomas, 1901 (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae). Mammalian Biology (Zeitschrift für Saugetierkunde) 69: 173-181.
• 2003 to present Banasiak Art Gallery, website featuring my artwork
• 2002 Photography credits. A Synopsis of the Mammalian Fauna of the Philippine Islands website.
• 2001 to present Photographs, illustrations, and design work. Mammals of Tanzania website.
• 2000 to 2001 Contributed artwork to The Harris Education Center, The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL
• 1993 to 1997 Windows Literary Magazine, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL

Awards

• 2017 Women in Science award for an individual mentor/role model for women scientists at the Field Museum
• 1999 to 2001 Grace and Walter Smith Grant, SAIC
• 1997 Senior Art Award, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL