Gregory John Maichack Pastel Artist

Award-winning artist Gregory John Maichack lives in western Holyoke. He is a portraitist and painter working primarily in pastels. He graduated from Holy Cross College with a B.S. in Experimental Psychology in 1974. He also took his first art course there in 1970. Since then, he has trained with such notables in the field of pastel portraiture as internationally acclaimed Daniel Greene, the Copley Society's Constance Flavell Pratt and Foster Caddell. Maichack is a member of the Portrait Society of America, Academic Artists Association, Lyme Artists Association, Connecticut Pastel Association, Pastel Society of the Southwest and the Degas Pastel Society. He has been in many national juried shows and has been awarded numerous Massachusetts Cultural Council grants.

Maichack, an MCC Gold Star Program Award nominee, is a faculty member of the Quadrangle Museum School at the Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, MA, and of the Guild Studio School at Eastworks. He also teaches in the continuing education departments at Greenfield Community College, Holyoke Community College and Westfield State College.

Gallery Representation

Gallery Carla, 535 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA
Bennington Center for the Arts, 44 Gypsy Lane, Bennington, VT
Northlight Gallery, 33 Ocean Avenue, Kennebunkport, ME

Shows

Springfield Museum faculty exhibition 2003
Winner of the Savoir-faire Pastel Award, Great Lakes Pastel Society, Fall 2002
Connecticut Pastel Society Annual Show, 2006
West Hartford Library One Person Show, 2006
Bennington Center for the Arts, Small Pieces Show, 2006
Faculty Exhibition, Springfield Museum School, 2005
Degas Pastel Society, New Orleans, LA, 2004 (national juried show)
Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT, 2004 - 2006
Mass Mutual, Springfield, Spring 2004, 2000
Connecticut Pastel Society Annual Show, 2002 - 2005
Pastel Society of Maine, Kennebunk, ME, Fall 2004 and Fall 2002
Barnes & Noble, winter 2001
Lyme Art Association, Lyme, CT, 2003
Award of Merit: Bennington Center for the Arts: Impressions of New England Show 2003
Springfield Art League, Fall 2003 and Fall 2002
Springfield Art League Invitational, Spring 2003, 2002
California's North Valley Art League, January 2003 (19th annual national juried show)
Pastel Society of Oregon, 2002 (national juried)
Granite Street Gallery, New London, CT, 2002 (juried)
Monson Art Show: Voyage to the Senses, 2002
WestFest, 2002, 2001
Guild Faculty Art Show, Northampton Center for the Arts, MA, 2001
Monson Art Show: Know Thyself 2001
Holyoke Public Library's Historic Room, 2000-2003
Wilbraham Library Show, 2001

Portrait Commissions

President of Westfield State College, 2004
WPA Muralist, Sante Graziani
Charles Merriam, co-founder, G. & C. Merriam Co. (now Merriam-Webster, Inc.), 2007
Lincoln Library, Lincoln, MA

Media & Illustrations, Collections & Exhibitions

Cover, Storytelling Magazine, September/October 2002 issue, international distribution
Portrait of Ray Hicks, Appalachian storyteller, installed in International Storytelling Center, a division of the Smithsonian, Jonesborough, TN
BRAVO (Western MA publication devoted to the performing and visual arts) twice front page cover art, BRAVO "featured artist"
Cover art for gold award-winning 1999 National Parenting Publications audio cassette storytelling tape, "Books are Celebrations"
2001 recipient of Massachusetts Cultural Council Professional Development Grants
2001 Awarded five Western Massachusetts cultural grants for paintings of historically important buildings - Pittsfield, Chicopee, Holyoke, Bernardston
2000 - Awarded Holyoke Cultural Council grant for pastel painting of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church