Building Visual Worlds for Music: From Sketchbook to Stage A four-week creative workshop exploring how music becomes images, objects, spaces, and imaginary worlds. What would a song look like if you could step inside it? In this class, we’ll use music as a starting point for making art. Through drawing, collage, collecting, material experiments, and small models, we’ll explore how the sounds and feelings of a song can become a visual world—with its own colors, textures, characters, landscapes, and atmosphere. We’ll begin with things you already have around you: songs, photographs, objects, memories, dreams, and everyday materials. Each week, playful prompts and hands-on exercises will help you make connections between what you hear, what you feel, and what you create. You’ll explore how a small idea in your sketchbook can grow into an imagined space for a music video, performance, installation, or artwork. What we’ll explore: Turning sound, rhythm, and emotion into color, shape, texture, and movement Gathering references and building mood boards Creating drawings, paintings, collages, and material studies Mapping imaginary places and inventing impossible architecture Making small models and dioramas to explore ideas in three dimensions Connecting individual experiments into a world that feels like your own The class is open to artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, writers, and anyone curious about making things. You don’t need experience in drawing, set design, or live production—just a willingness to experiment. There’s room to follow your own interests throughout the four weeks. You’ll leave with a collection of visual experiments, ideas for a music-inspired world, and ways to develop it Each class meets live online for two hours, 7-9 EST every Tuesday for a month. If you can't attend a session, you'll receive a recording afterward, along with access to all course materials, references, exercises, and assignments so you can work at your own pace.