In May, Boston artist Cedric “Vise1” Douglas painted an 125-foot-long mural on one of the buildings of the former Medfield State Hospital off Hospital Road there, at the back of the property, overlooking a parking area, adjacent to the Charles River Overlook.

Depicting an egret, butterflies and native plants around a Medfield youth playing a violin, the mural is meant to evoke the “healing power of music, building on the hospital’s legacy of health and wellness,” according to a project press release.

The project was commissioned by the Cultural Alliance of Medfield, as part of its planning for year-round arts programs as it establishes a 24,000-square-foot regional performing arts and education center at the heart of the old hospital campus.


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Cedric "Vise1" Douglas using a projection to trace the sketch onto the wall for his mural at the former Medfield State Hospital, May 2021. (Courtesy Cultural Alliance of Medfield)
Cedric “Vise1” Douglas using a projection to trace the sketch onto the wall for his mural at the former Medfield State Hospital, May 2021. (Courtesy Cultural Alliance of Medfield)
Cedric "Vise1" Douglas painting his mural at the former Medfield State Hospital, May 2021. (Courtesy Cultural Alliance of Medfield)
Cedric “Vise1” Douglas painting his mural at the former Medfield State Hospital, May 2021. (Courtesy Cultural Alliance of Medfield)
Cedric "Vise1" Douglas painting his mural at the former Medfield State Hospital, May 2021. (Courtesy Cultural Alliance of Medfield)
Cedric “Vise1” Douglas painting his mural at the former Medfield State Hospital, May 2021. (Courtesy Cultural Alliance of Medfield)

 

Cedric "Vise1" Douglas's mural at the former Medfield State Hospital, May 2021. (Courtesy Cultural Alliance of Medfield)
Cedric “Vise1” Douglas’s mural at the former Medfield State Hospital, May 2021. (Courtesy Cultural Alliance of Medfield)
Cedric "Vise1" Douglas's mural at the former Medfield State Hospital, May 2021. (Courtesy Cultural Alliance of Medfield)
Cedric “Vise1” Douglas’s mural at the former Medfield State Hospital, May 2021. (Courtesy Cultural Alliance of Medfield)