On Thursday, June 19, 2014, a pastels workshop inspired by Van Gogh’s “The Café Terrace” 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 Library, 476 Canton Avenue in Milton. Seating is limited, and pre-registration is required. Sign up on-line at www.miltonlibrary.org, by clicking onto the Events Calendar for June 19^th.   Art materials will be provided and an $8 fee per painter (cash or check) is required from each attendee at the workshop. Checks are payable to The Friends of the Milton Library.

Adult beginners and advanced artists are welcome.   Mr. Maichack will share insights into Vincent van Gogh’s work and “The Café Terrace” will be a jumping off point for pastel painters that night.

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  For more information about this program, contact Jean Hlady, Adult Services Librarian, at (617) 698-5757.