Today's mural is on the side of the Westerwood Tavern. The Westerwood Tavern has been a Westerwood institution for over sixty years. While the name and owners have changes, that Cheers feeling of everybody known your name remains the same. Westerwood is a neighborhood of artists and the bar holds events to support artists. Today's mural is an example of their support of the arts.
The mural is most visible when headed west on Guilford Avenue. It evokes part Mexican alebrijes (as in the movie Coco) and part vintage Americana postcards. Local artist Beka Butts@bbutts_illustration created the mural. We actually featured Beka last November when she was working at the Day of the Dead exhibit for Casa Azul (see here). Beka trained at Savannah College of Art and Design and, fortunately, decided to bring her SCAD training back to Greensboro and share it with us!
Happy Saturday! May you have a chance to explore your community this weekend; whether it is Greensboro or elsewhere.
That is beautifully painted.
Posted by: William Kendall | Saturday, May 08, 2021 at 05:37 AM