Welcome

Nancy Pochis Bank is an artist, illustrator and art teacher based in Chicago's Ravenswood neighborhood.

• Nancy's artwork has been exhibited in numerous venues throughout Chicago.
• She created two giant globes for "Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet",
  environmental art exhibits in Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego and
  Los Angeles.
• Her watercolor illustrations appear on a series of folktale CDs.
• Nancy accepts several portrait commissions each year.
• Nancy teaches weekly art classes and is available for individual and group
  workshops.

News & Exhibits

Family Portrait: Cool Idea, Unique Approach

These four oil paintings of a Lincoln Park Family on their roof deck are each 4-5 feet tall. Click on the photo at left to see them better. The paintings are designed to hang together or apart. Nancy is using a grassaile method to create this portrait, capturing the values in gray scale before she adds color.

New Studio Assistant

Nancy hired recent American Academy of Art Graduate Tracee Badway to work as her Studio Assistant. Tracee's oil painting training has helped Nancy transition most of the studio work from watercolor to oil.

Tracee's work can viewed on her website: www.traceebadway.com

Nature Nurture at the Greenbelt Cultural Center

The Greenbelt Cultural Center in the Lake County Forest Preserve is constructing a new shelter for its permanent outdoor exhibition of Nancy's giant globe entitled "Nature Nurture: Raise Future Environmentalists". It is currently exhibited in front of the cultural center near the parking lot at 1215 Green Bay Road in North Chicago.

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