Downtown Glen Ellyn is site of a new mural honoring artist Frida Kahlo. Work began Thursday, Sept. 24 on the 14-foot-high and 28-foot-wide mural gracing the wall of Olive ‘n Vinnie’s, located at 449 N. Main Street. The mural is scheduled to be completed later this week. The mural was designed by Glen Ellyn’s own Geoff Bevington and is being painted primarily by Bevington with some assistance by other artists and local residents, including children. The project is made possible thanks to the Village of Glen Ellyn, McAninch Arts Center, National Endowment for the Arts and Tim Elliott for their sponsorship of the mural. Bevington, a resident of Glen Ellyn, has pursued art, comics, design and mural painting as an avocation for nearly 35 years. He has painted more than 100 murals across the U.S. and France, most in support of literacy efforts as a 30-year member of Cartoonists Across America. Mural sizes have ranged from small paintings to the side of a 53-foot tractor-trailer that was painted in front of and in cooperation with the Library of Congress. For more information, visit www.frida2021.org.

Photo: Chip-Miller