Building Visual Worlds for Music: From Sketchbook to Stage Music has the power to create places that don't exist yet. This workshop is about learning how to build those places. Whether you're an illustrator, painter, animator, filmmaker, sculptor, musician, photographer, designer—or simply someone who loves making things—this class is an invitation to explore visual storytelling through emotion, memory, color, texture, movement, and sound. You do not need to be a set designer or have any experience in live production to join. Together we'll learn how to listen to music differently, using songs as starting points for creating immersive worlds. Through drawing, collage, sculpture, writing, found objects, animation, photography, models, video, or any medium that inspires you, you'll develop your own visual language and discover new ways of translating feelings into environments. Throughout the workshop we'll explore questions like: What does nostalgia look like? How can color tell the story before anyone sings? What kind of world does a song live in? How do objects, light, texture, and movement create emotion? Along the way, I'll share my own process designing environments for musicians, touring productions, projection mapping, installations, and performances, showing how an initial sketch can grow into a fully realized visual experience. By the end of the course, you'll have created your own visual concept, learned how to communicate your ideas through sketches, mood boards, and presentation decks, and gained the confidence to pitch your creative vision—whether it's for a concert, an installation, a film, an exhibition, or a personal project. Each class meets live online for two hours. 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.