Claudia Hayden’s “The Music Series,” featured in The Art & Healing Power of Jazz exhibit, celebrates the expressive forms and emotional resonance of jazz through elegant, minimalist design. Each work in the series transforms fluid black lines into evocative representations of musical instruments and performers—saxophone, piano player, dancer, bass, musical note, and trumpet—capturing movement and rhythm with striking simplicity.

Hayden’s visual language draws from the improvisational spirit of jazz, embodying both the sense of community and the uniqueness of each performer. The series emphasizes music’s healing capacity, linking abstract form and creative gesture in compositions that are both lively and meditative. Through these dynamic silhouettes, viewers are invited to reflect on music’s transformative power and the enduring relationship between art and sound.