Highlandtown Mural Tour

3201 Eastern Avenue,Baltimore MD 21224

25 April, 2021

Description

Highland town is a bustling working class neighborhood which has a variety of murals and art hubs, as well as traditional painted screens. Our meeting point will be a local coffee roaster which helps fund orphanages around the world! We will walk to many points of interest, including murals, arts organizations, public art sculptures, as well as a local restaurants which have been around for 100 years. This tour will reveal the tightly knit fabric of this working class community in which these murals went up. Located at the edge of Greektown, this town was founded by a single man who was asked to create this town by the mayor of Baltimore, to which he dragged his boat to the top of the centrally located hill and began this strange quest of settling the land to the east of Baltimore. We will learn about the major players behind the mural art pieces and the movements which aided in their funding. Tour goers will understand the components involved in putting a mural up, as well as the questionable legalities. We will also delve into the history of ‘painted screens’ a community art form specific to Highland town. It originated here and is sustained through this community.