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Baltimore Painted Screens: Understanding City Life through Urban Arts

~~Tuesday, September 20~~

(4:00 - 5:30 PM)

Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

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

Elaine's Bio

Baltimore Screen Painting Folklife Apprenticeship 2021-2022

Congratulations to Baltimore Screen Painting team

Master John Iampieri (Wicomico County) and Apprentice Michael Seipp (Baltimore City)

on their 2021-2022 Folklife Apprenticeship Grant award.

"MSAC's traditional arts program, Maryland Traditions, has awarded $65,000 to artists in the state through the Folklife Apprenticeship grant. The funding supports the sharing of traditional arts skills from a master artist to a learner artist during a one-year teaching period. Thirteen grants of $5,000 each have been awarded for the 2021-2022 granting period to the teams listed below, with master artists named first."