Northeastern University is livestreaming an artist in action.
Boston’s own Cedric Douglas is getting a worldwide Internet audience as part of the university’s campaign to embrace street art over the past few years, which has brought artists with both local ties and an international presence to the campus.
The school recently set up the live-streaming camera near where Douglas is painting a mural at the school. People can follow a Web link to watch as the visionary, who holds a fine arts degree from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, uses spray paint to create a large portrait on the side of the Behrakis Health Sciences Center.
The work is part of the Northeastern Public Art Initiative, which began in 2014, a “mandate” from school President Joseph E. Aoun to turn the “campus into a canvas.”
Douglas, who is behind the “Up Truck,” a mobile public art lab, has done a lot of work to bring street art to the city’s neighborhoods.
Last summer, he lugged a foosball table around parts of Boston, and challenged strangers to play against one another.
He was also previously an Artist in Residence at the Northeastern Center for the Arts.
His latest work will feature the silhouette of a child holding a spray paint can and wearing a backpack. A stream of colors will extend from the can, creating a Tyrannosaurus rex and several other dinosaurs. Splashes of color will look like paint splatters on the wall.
Douglas is slated to finish his work by Sunday.
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