Design Wire: The Illustration Institute

By Maine Home + Design

The Illustration Institute, a Maine arts nonprofit organization dedicated to raising appreciation and awareness of illustration in its many forms, is moving to Three Canal Plaza in Portland. Cofounded by illustrators Scott Nash and Nancy Gibson-Nash, the institute provides free programs at public venues across the state, runs a summer artist residency program on Peaks Island, and creates and installs exhibitions with partnering institutions like Brunswick’s Curtis Memorial Library.

The new space will initially be used as an incubation hub, with the goal of building and housing an illustration archive. “We have a legacy of attracting artists and illustrators to Maine, 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,” Nash said in a press release.

View the full article here.