On Thursday, July 11, 2013, a pastels workshop, “Sunflowers,” will be taught by award winning artist Gregory John Maichack. The adults-only workshop will be held from 6-8 pm in the Keys Community Room (lower level) of the Milton Public Library, 476 Canton Avenue in Milton. Seating is limited, and pre-registration is required for this event. This program also has an $8.00 per person fee for the materials which are provided by the instructor, and this fee is payable at the door by cash or check. Sign up on-line at www.miltonlibrary.org by clicking on “Events Calendar” for July 11th.
Adult beginners and advanced artists are welcome. Mr. Maichack will share insights into Vincent van Gogh, Monet, and Georgia O’Keeffe. One of O’Keeffe’s sunflower paintings will be the jumping off point for all to create a sunflower pastel painting. Mr. Maichack provides all materials, including hundreds of professional grade pastels, paper and pencils.
Artist Gregory John Maichack lives in western Holyoke, and is a portraitist and painter working primarily in pastels. He has been nominated twice for a Massachusetts Gold Star Program Award and is the winner of the Award of Merit from the Bennington Center for the Arts: Impressions of New England Show 2003, and Savoir-faire Pastel Award from the Great Lakes Pastel Society. Mr. Maichack was commissioned by Westfield State College to paint the pastel portrait of the past college president, Doctor Frederick Woodward, which was unveiled at the dedication of the Woodward Center. He has been in many national juried shows and was awarded hundreds of Massachusetts Cultural Council grants. He has taught pastel portraiture at the Norman Rockwell Museum, and was hired in 2012 to demonstrate pastel painting at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MFA). Maichack is a faculty member at the Museum Studio School in the Fine Arts Museum Quadrangle in Springfield, MA, and also teaches at Greenfield Community College in their adult continuing education department. He is a member of the Academic Artists Association. Visit his new web site at www.GregoryMaichack.com
This program is sponsored by The Friends of the Milton Public Library, and for more information contact Jean Hlady at the reference desk at (617) 698-5757, x.3.