The Peabody Conservatory and the Schuler School of Fine Arts will come together for spontaneous collaboration on a given theme–an animal–on April 4th from 1:30pm to 5:30pm in the Bank of America Lounge in Leakin Hall. This idea was conceived within the graduate seminar Musique en image where our students discussed the close ties of the art of painting with film and music. Ekphrasis has been a part of cross-pollination among the art forms for centuries. It works both ways: a musical idea can serve as an impetus for a work of painting; we expect composers to react to the images as well. Professor Hans Guerin from the Schuler School will lead a group of his students and colleagues while Professor Ildar Khannanov and Mary Donovan Price will lead a group  of composers from the Peabody departments of Composition and New Media. This event is free and open to the public.