(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.
Baltimore Screen Painting Folklife Apprenticeship 2021-2022
Congratulations to Baltimore Screen Painting team
Master John Iampieri (Wicomico County) and Apprentice Michael Seipp (Baltimore City)
"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."
Watch the video narrated by Master Screen Painter John Iampieri:
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.
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"
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
Artist John Iampieri Keeps the Art of Screen Painting Alive with Baltimore Students
As a Young Audiences Arts for Learning Resident Artist, Iampieri is able to share his love and enthusiasm for Baltimore's Painted Screens. Read the full story here.
Painted Screens in the Press
Associated Press
- Keeping Baltimore's Painted Window Screens Alive
- Baltimore: Poe, Painted Screens, Vintage Treasures
The Baltimore Sun
Baltimore Brew
WBAL-TV
Pigtown Design
Southeast Community Development Corporation