Thomas Lipka

                                        screenpainter@verizon.net

Tom began painting window screens in 1945 at age ten. He watched an itinerant screen painter, later identified as a Canton neighbor, Alonzo Parks. The similarity between the two masters' work is evident in every aspect of their signature Red Bungalow. After a career with Baltimore City, Tom rekindled his painting career in the 1980s and is one of the most active teachers of screen art.

                                                               Dee Hergert

                                wa3tun@aol.com

After quitting her City job due to a hearing loss, Dee asked elder artist Ben Richardson for a lesson. A quick study and  natural artist she worked from her Highlandtown home, offering her work through hardware stores and ads in the East Baltimore Guide. She works from her own little waterside bungalow in Essex, turning out hundreds of traditional images on demand. She

                                                                                John Oktavec

       J.oktavec@verizon.net

Like much of his family, John Oktavec is an exceptional self-taught artist. He follows in the creative footsteps of his grandfather, William who invented screen painting and his father Richard who inherited the family mantle.  Their styles are stylistically interchangeable. John fills commissions from his studio in Anne Arundel County. He works for a commercial sign painting firm.