Sarah Kraning
Sarah Kraning is a painter with synesthesia whose work transforms music into large-scale visual art. Born with multiple forms of auditory-visual synesthesia, she translates sound into color, texture, and motion, creating paintings that function as visual scores. With early recognition from the Guggenheim Museum, Kraning has been compared to a modern-day Wassily Kandinsky. Her synesthetic practice spans studio painting, film, live concert painting, animation and projection design, education, speaking, and creative direction. In Kraning’s experience of sound, each pitch corresponds to a specific color on the visible spectrum, allowing her to translate music into color and motion in real time.
September 18, 2026
12:15 pm
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1:15 pm
Born with multiple forms of auditory-visual synesthesia, Sarah Kraning translates sound into color, texture, and motion in real time, and in this MODE presentation she shares how that neurological difference became the engine of her entire creative practice. A rare window into how perception shapes art, and an invitation for every person in the room to examine what drives their own creative intuition.
September 20, 2026
12:00 pm
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1:00 pm
A conversation with artists on what happens when photography moves beyond the still image, becoming experiences, installations, and objects that invite, and sometimes demand, participation. A discussion about where the medium is going and what it means to make work that exists in space rather than on a wall.
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