Arts Group Leases Portland Space to Showcase Work of Maine Artists and Illustrators

By Laurie Schreiber, Mainebiz

A nonprofit that promotes awareness and education around artists and illustrators in Maine has leased space in Portland’s Old Port as an incubation hub. The Illustration Institute leased 1,000 square feet at Three Canal Plaza from East Brown Cow. 

“Illustration is culturally significant and important to Maine,” said Scott Nash, who co-founded the institute with his wife Nancy Gibson-Nash in 2017. 

Maine has a legacy of attracting artists and illustrators. 

“But what I’ve discovered over the past eight years is that we also have an abundance of illustrators here today that are some of the best in the world,” he said. “It’s getting to a point where I feel like we are in a golden age of illustration.”

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