Now she comes to visit with her daughter. His daughter loved the visits and the memories of being with her father. “He couldn’t do much physically, but he would regularly visit the museum with his wife and daughter,” Scheirer says, “because it was a beautiful place and it had access for his chair. Scheirer added him to the throng with delight.
One uses a wheelchair after a paralyzing accident. Many local people are pictured, each special to the staff. You might recognize the faces gazing out at the Bay in the new Maritime History mural. He also hides his signature in each piece he makes. He has a gift for interpreting the scientific data and converting it into artistic masterpieces that transport the viewer back to the beginnings of time. You’ll see his work everywhere in the museum. “But someone left and they called me back. “I applied a year before and didn’t get the job,” he says.
That’s when he learned of the Calvert Marine Museum, and in 1999 he began another career painting murals.
With time on his hands while recuperating, he tinkered around rebuilding cars metal work became another talent.Įventually his work was noticed and he was recruited for several historic restoration projects in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. We were given opportunities to work in every medium.”įrom there he earned a fine arts degree from Kutztown State University. “All of the instructors had worked as layout artists for production studios. “It was a great three-year program,” Scheirer says. It was a small private school designed and taught by veterans to produce functioning artists. He designed training aids for pilots and eventually received a high security clearance to create daily visual operational reports for senior brass.Īfter military service, he heard about a school back home in Pennsylvania called the York Academy of Arts. The Navy tested him and found he had an aptitude for drafting and illustrating. “It seemed like a good idea at the time,” he laughs. Scheirer’s wild ride began when he enlisted in the Navy in 1968, smack dab in the middle of the Vietnam War. “I haven’t met anyone else who can say they slipped on blue jeans to travel down a dark alley in the early morning hours to meet with a biker club to restore a vintage hog, then cap the day off wearing a tux for an exhibit installation ceremony up in an Inner Harbor penthouse.” His artistic toolbox includes airbrush painting, silk-screening, illustrating, graphic design, drafting, rebuilding cars and motorcycles and his specialty, mural painting. Whether it’s hand crafting a stunning steel eagle sculpture for a Pennsylvania courthouse or building free-form rocks and trees from concrete and rebar for a Boston zoo, he can handle it. “I’ve always had my hands in one art medium or another,” he says. It slowed him down, but it doesn’t stop him from doing the things he loves. An auto accident in 1987 shattered his pelvis. I had only hoped to graduate.”Īt 70, Scheirer looks 50 but moves like he’s 102. Back in high school, I never would have dreamed I’d have a career in art. “I get to pick the brains of an incredibly talented staff of experts in paleontology, estuarial biology and maritime history, then create the visuals that tell the stories. “I get to play,” Scheirer says with a wry smile. Artistic wiz Tim Scheirer is behind the curtain (and up on the ladder) helping to create a myriad of marvelously wonderful exhibits that tell the story of life here from pre-historic times to the present. Though we discovered he was simply an ordinary man, his wonderful skills dazzled the onlookers as he enlightened, encouraged, educated and invited us all to find our way home.Ĭalvert Marine Museum may not be Emerald City, but it is the place to become enlightened, encouraged and educated about life here in our Maryland home. “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain,” said the man behind the curtain to Dorothy and her friends as the Wizard’s true identity came to light.
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