A vibrant Baltimore folk art tradition, screen painting can trace its roots back to a single instance of creative marketing on North Collington Avenue in 1913. Bohemian immigrant and grocer William Oktavec needed to take his produce out of the sun, so he depicted meats and vegetables on his shop’s window screens instead. While his granddaughter […]
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