Have you ever thought of using music as a subject for art? When the author discovered that her third graders studied jazz in music class every February, it seemed an opportune time for her to simultaneously focus on music in art, specifically through the work of African-American artist Romare Bearden. To familiarize her third-grade students with various musical instruments and introduce the unit, she borrowed a number of instruments from other teachers and set them up in the middle of the room as a still life. As students drew them, they experimented with the sounds they made and listened to Romare Bearden Revealed, a recording by the Branford Marsalis Quintet inspired by Bearden's artwork and including one of his own jazz compositions, "Seabreeze." They also carefully looked at and discussed a number of Bearden's collages based on musical themes and subjects, comparing and contrasting the elements of music with the elements of art.