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Master Screen Painter/ Artist in residence.

- Dee Herget

(Baltimore screen above by Dee Herget)

 


MAY 9-10-11, 2008

Meet the Screen Painters + Paint a Screen + Take a Master Class + Wood grain a window frame. Turn pine into mahogany + Make a Tire Planter + Watch an Arabber Decorate his cart with fruit and vegetables + Piece stained glass transoms + Witness the miracle of manmade Formstone + Meet the step scrubber

Where: American Visionary Art Museum and Creative Alliance at The Patterson

       

         What: Two days of fun and fact-filled events. Find out everything you want to know about rowhouse arts and decorations.           


         When: Fri Eve May 9 AVAM /Screen  Painters' Reunion/Party and Auction


                     Sat Morn May 10 The Great Federal Hill (Screen) Paint-a-Thon


                     Sat Day May 10 AVAM/Rowhouse 101—Learn. Do.


Sat Eve May 10 Creative Alliance/Homage to Johnny Eck/

Exhibition from the Johnny Eck Museum collection /

Magic Show and screening of Freaks

Sun May 11 Tour Historic Fells Point Houses
   

Painted window and door screens are a folk art indigenous to Baltimore--created and displayed here since 1913 when grocer William Oktavec painted the first colorful landscape screen for his corner store in an East Baltimore neighborhood known as "Little Bohemia." His goal was to beautify the streetscape while protecting his and his neighbors' privacy. Once painted, you see out and no one sees in. Local artists and painters worldwide now follow that tradition...

The Painted Screen Society of Baltimore, Inc.

 Founded in 1985 to preserve Screen Painting and rowhouse arts in Baltimore neighborhoods.
www.paintedscreens.org