Today's Screen Painters
Yesterday's painters were all either direct or indirect disciples of William Oktavec. Current artists learned from Oktavec's students or imitators. Later generations have been self taught or benefited from Painted Screen Society workshops, school classes or the How to Paint a Baltimore Screen DVD. As times change so do the materials they use and the subjects they and their customers choose.
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Tom Lipka
Sadly, we lost a beloved master screen painter on April 4, 2018.
Tom Lipka, his teachings, his art, and his life-long dedication and enthusiam for screen painting will be sorely missed.
Farewell Tom. We hope you are painting beautiful colors across the sky.
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Master Painter 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 has been one of the most active teachers of screen art.
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Master Painter 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. Today, she works from her own little waterside bungalow in Essex, MD.
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Master Painter
Like much of his family, John Oktavec is a natural artist. He follows in the creative footsteps of his grandfather, William who brought screen painting to Baltimore, and his father Richard who inherited the family mantle. Their styles are interchangeable. John fills commissions from his studio in Anne Arundel County. He works for a commercial sign painting firm and enjoys taking screen art into futuristic realms.
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Anna Lipka, Westminster, MD, Apprentice to Tom Lipka
Anna Pasqualucci, Linthicum, MD, Master Painter
Brenda Foehrkolb, Chestertown, MD
Catherine "Pat" Michalski, Glen Burnie, MD
Clare Chesnavage, Charles Town, WVA
Jennifer Crouse, Baltimore, MD, Apprentice to Dee Herget
Jenny Campbell, New Orleans, LA
John Iampieri, Bishopville, MD
Lisa Penn, New Freedom, PA/Ocean Pines, MD, Apprentice to Anna Pasqualucci
Monica Broere, Highlandtown, MD, Apprentice to John Oktavec
Rosalee Velenovsky, Highlandtown, MD
Troy Richardson, Baltimore, MD
Please click here for an updated contact list.
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Jennifer Crouse, apprentice to Dee Herget
John Oktavec. Monica Broere
Anna Lipka, apprentice to Tom Lipka
John Oktavec, Master Painter
Jennifer Crouse, apprentice to Dee Herget
Monica Broere, apprentice to John Oktavec
Jenny Campbell's painted screen apparell
Dee Herget, Master Painter
Anna Lipka, apprentice to Tom Lipka
Tom Lipka, Master Painter
Catherine "Pat" Michalski
John Oktavec, Master Painter
Catherine "Pat" Michalski
Monica Broere, apprentice to John Oktavec
John Oktavec, Master Painter
Monica Broere, apprentice to John Oktavec
John Oktavec, Master Painter
John Oktavec, Master Painter
Catherine "Pat" Michalski
Centennial Event, photo by Erick Zygmont
John Oktavec, Master Painter
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