Nancy Pochis Bank is a portrait artist, illustrator and art teacher based in Chicago's Ravenswood neighborhood. She completes several commissioned murals each year and her artwork has been exhibited in numerous venues throughout the United States.

Nancy created two giant globes for "Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet" in Chicago and these globes have traveled the country as part of an ongoing environmental art exhibit from Chicago toSan Francisco, San Diego to Los Angeles, and most recently were shown in Texas. A recipient of the Chicago Neighborhood Arts Grant for her work teaching art at CHA Senior Housing, Nancy offers elder art classes and workshops, youth classes and workshops as well as one-on-one private art instruction.

An active artist in the vibrant Ravenswood community, Nancy Pochis Bank is a regular participant in the annual Ravenswood ArtWalk "Tour of Arts and Industry" and you can visit her studio during their arts tour each October. Nancy accepts several portrait commissions each year and is very excited to announce the availablity of Interlocking Portrait™ commissions in oil or watercolor. These family portraits are designed to hang together but can be divided and given to family members as they move away from home, go off to college or start their own families.

News & Exhibits

Interlocking Portrait™: Cool Idea, Unique Approach to portraiture created by Nancy Bank

Interlocking Portrait™ 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.

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.

Contact Nancy

Fine art and portrait commissions as well as inquiries about public and corporate art works are welcome!

Nancy's Ravenswood art studio is open by appointment at 1806 W. Cuyler, on the third floor. Contact Nancy at 773.297.5643 or request information through her contact form.