Pastel Class with Gregory Maichack 6/29/2023

The Tolland Cultural Council will host “Flowers in Bowl,’ a Pastel Painting Workshop With Materials For Adults

Award-winning pastel artist Gregory John Maichack will present "Flowers in a Bowl", a pastel painting workshop for adults and teens 18+ at the Public Safety Complex on June 29th, from 6:00-8:00pm. This is a pastel painting workshop designed for both sheer beginners to advanced participants. Please call the Library at 413-258-4201 to reserve your place. Please leave your name and number so your attendance can be confirmed.

There are so many flowers, with so many colors. Greg will demonstrate peonies but you can choose your own favorite flower! (Bring a picture.)

This fun, two-hour workshop, with materials included, guides everyone in producing their very own personalized and original pastel of flowers in a reflective bowl.

All are excited in seeing the colors produced by pastels and the reflections in the bowl, as everyone becomes experts at blending pastel.  As always, all will keep their 12 X 18 painting. All are supplied pastels, pastel pencils, paper, blending material.    

Gregory John Maichack lives in the Berkshires. He is a portraitist and painter working primarily in pastels. Winner of the Award of Merit from the Bennington Center for the Arts: Impressions of New England Show 2003, he also was awarded the Savoir-faire Pastel Award from the Great Lakes Pastel Society. Maichack was commissioned by Westfield State College to paint the pastel portrait of the past president of Westfield State University, Doctor Frederick Woodward, which was unveiled at the dedication of the Woodward Center; and pastel painted dictionary great Charles Merriam, unveiled by Merriam-Webster Co. at Merriam-Gilbert Library. He has been in many national juried shows and was awarded numerous Massachusetts Cultural Council grants. In addition to portraiture, his still lifes and landscapes are represented by galleries from Kennebunkport, Maine to San Francisco, California. Maichack is accepting requests to do various commissions to do pastel paintings. Please e-mail Mr. Maichack at EmJay7@aol.com. Visit his new web site at www.GregoryMaichack.com. 

Maichack has been a faculty member of the Museum Studio School in the Fine Arts Museum Quadrangle in Springfield, MA; and taught at Holyoke and Greenfield Community Colleges, Westfield State University, East Works, the MFA, Boston, and The Guild, Northampton. Maichack’s pastel paintings have been selected twice for the Annual National Exhibition of the Academic Artists Association and as a result Maichack was invited to be a member of this prestigious organization.

“This project is supported in part from a grant from the Tolland Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.