The Painted Screen Society of Baltimore

              "This is a Classic - If you want to know everything about Painted Screens - Courtesy of The Screen Painters Society" - captainpaulsart.com 
The Screen Painters (1988 The Screen Society of Baltimore, Inc. Featuring Johnny Eck, Oktavec family, Dee Herget, Tom Lipka... 
 Elaine Eff, Director, Richard Chisolm, cinematographer) copy rights apply! This video was posted with Elaine Eff's permission. 
No copies may be made without written permission from the Painted Screen Society of Baltimore, Inc.





Tuesday, September 20
(4:00 - 5:30 PM)


Join Elaine Eff, the foremost chronicler of painted screens, for a tour of the sidewalks of East Baltimore,
in search of this homegrown folk art known in no other modern American city. 
An artful anomaly, a source of privacy and ventilation, painted screens grew from the handiwork of a single Northeast Baltimore grocer
in the summer of 1913 to hundreds of thousands of colorful landscape scenes 
created by known and unknown hands on their neighborhood’s rowhouse windows and door screens. 
The talk will be followed by a viewing of archival materials related to the history of painted screens
which are part of the Maryland Traditions Archive housed in UMBC’s Special Collections.

This lecture was made possible with financial support 
from a 2023 Maryland Folklife Network Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council. 


Read about Painted Screens' Chronicler and Preservationist Elaine Eff





MPT'S CHESAPEAKE COLLECTIBLES SERIES

Feature Story About Painted Screens

Airdate:  Mon, Jan 20TH, 7:30pm only on MPT-HD.

The show repeats: Saturdays, 7:30pm on MPT-2.

Double check your cable listings - there are slight variations among cable providers

Watch Elaine Eff discuss painted screens starting at minute 12:11.


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Friday, March 13

On the Record talk show

The Painted Screens Of Baltimore

9:30-10:00 am on 88.1 WYPR FM

Elaine Eff and Highlandtown Gallery owner Felicia Zannino-Baker go on On the Record"

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Picture Windows...The Painted Screens of Baltimore and Beyond
Dec. 13-2013 - March 16, 2014
Missed the event? Read about it here and watch the video
 





Five Minute Histories: Baltimore's Painted Screens








The only book on the subject...
The Painted Screens of Baltimore: An Urban Folk Art Revealed
by Elaine Eff


A great gift - 256 pages, 300 illustrations, only $35
Available from MCHC (formerly the Maryland Historical Society),  Amazon.com, and fine book stores 

CBS Sunday Morning TV Features Baltimore's Painted Screens 
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