What if your paint was alive?
Explore bacterial painting as a different kind of creative medium in this two-part hands-on workshop with ASCUS Art & Science. Whether you’ve tried agar art before or this is completely new to you, no experience is needed. Just bring your creativity with you.
Two agar plates will serve as your canvas in this workshop as you paint with living, naturally pigmented bacteria to create artworks. Come with a few ideas in mind and we’ll help you develop and experiment with them in the lab.
Session 1: Making & Painting - 8th October
1.5 hours 6:15 to 7:45 pm
We’ll introduce you to agar art, the bacteria we’ll be working with and how their natural pigments can be used as a creative medium to draw on agar plates.
Session 2: Collection Day - 13th October
1 hour - 6:15 to 7:15 pm
Come back to see what has grown and photograph your finished agar art pieces!
We’re excited to be running this workshop in partnership with ASM as a part of ASM’s Annual Agar Art Contest so if you would like to enter the competition, we will help you prepare an entry.
If you fancy, you will get to print of one of the plates on a piece of textile, which you can collect from the Lab in the following days.
What if your paint was alive?
Explore bacterial painting as a different kind of creative medium in this two-part hands-on workshop with ASCUS Art & Science. Whether you’ve tried agar art before or this is completely new to you, no experience is needed. Just bring your creativity with you.
Two agar plates will serve as your canvas in this workshop as you paint with living, naturally pigmented bacteria to create artworks. Come with a few ideas in mind and we’ll help you develop and experiment with them in the lab.
Session 1: Making & Painting - 8th October
1.5 hours 6:15 to 7:45 pm
We’ll introduce you to agar art, the bacteria we’ll be working with and how their natural pigments can be used as a creative medium to draw on agar plates.
Session 2: Collection Day - 13th October
1 hour - 6:15 to 7:15 pm
Come back to see what has grown and photograph your finished agar art pieces!
We’re excited to be running this workshop in partnership with ASM as a part of ASM’s Annual Agar Art Contest so if you would like to enter the competition, we will help you prepare an entry.
If you fancy, you will get to print of one of the plates on a piece of textile, which you can collect from the Lab in the following days.