What does music look like? In 2026, students, seniors, and veterans across Napa County answered with a paintbrush. Through How I See Music, Festival Napa Valley’s free arts education workshop, participants listened closely to Aaron Copland’s Hoedown from the ballet Rodeo and painted what they heard, felt, and imagined.
Workshops reached every third-grade student at a non-charter school in Napa Valley Unified School District, along with students, seniors, and veterans throughout the county. A selection of their paintings filled the stage screens during Festival Napa Valley’s 2026 Symphonic Finale as the orchestra performed Hoedown live, and that artwork now comes together in this video installation.
Visit the How I See Music art installation in the rotunda at CIA at Copia in July and August 2027. Admission is free. While you’re there, head upstairs to the Chuck Williams Culinary Arts Museum, also free, home to more than 4,000 culinary artifacts.
