A photo of yellow and purple orchids, Cattleya triane - one of over 4000 species native to Colombia.
Photo Credit Orchi - Wikipedia commons.
Welcome to Art in the Lab's series of low key, one hour, drawing sessions where we draw from science. One short warm up followed by 10 five-minute drawings curated around a scientific theme.
In honor of Brain Awareness week, this session will focus on sensations that are mediated by physical force - mechanosensation - which governs senses of touch, stretch, hearing and motion. We have some beautiful images curated for this session. We hope you can join us.
Of note: This is not a kid focused event, although children are very welcome to join in together with their favorite interested grown ups. Please don't leave your child unattended in front of the screen, as we don't edit the images or topics for children. In this session, we will be looking mostly at microscope images and pathology slides. That said:
Our events are always free and everyone is welcome. If drawing will lift someone up, please invite them to draw with you. If you can, donate to your favorite social justice or environmental organization. Do what you can. Even a 5 minute drawing is better than no drawings. Take care of yourselves and each other.
A very nice afternoon of cell staining and drawing through the microscope to explore the different blood cell types.
Art in the Lab is back for its first in-person session in two years and so delighted to partner with Genspace for an afternoon exploring the different cell types in blood:red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.
This event will be held in two different modalities -
Online one hour drawing session 12/11 at 1-2pm. FREE
In person drawing session 12/12 1-3pm FREE
Notes:
You must be masked and vaccinated to attend this event (required for entrance to the college, and strictly enforced in the lab) We're limiting capacity to 30% of our usual.
Your signup gets you your own microscope table, so your ticket means you may bring up to *two* people that you don't mind sharing space with.
This art in the lab will explore the neuroscience of touch this is our SIXTH year joining in celebrating the awesomeness that is Brain Awareness Week . Thank you, Dana Foundation! RSVP so we can save your space at the microscope.
Welcome to this series of low key, one hour, drawing sessions where we draw from science. One short warm up followed by 10 five-minute drawings curated around a scientific theme. RSVP
What are the cells that make our hearts. How does the heart beat? This session will explore building a heart (cardiac development), and the cell types that work together to make your heart beat. In the image above, Tessadori and colleagues describe the development of pacemaker cells in the zebrafish, an important model system for developmental genetics.
Of note: This is not a kid focused event, although children are very welcome to join in together with their favorite interested grown ups. Please don't leave your child unattended in front of the screen, as we don't edit the images or topics for children. Adults like science and drawing too. In this session, we will be looking mostly at microscope images, pathology slides and models of the cells that make the heart. That said:
Our events are always free and everyone is welcome. If drawing will lift someone up, please invite them to draw with you. If you can, donate to your favorite social justice or environmental organization. Do what you can. Even a 5 minute drawing is better than no drawings. Take care of yourselves and each other. .
What is the molecular basis of regeneration? What information do regenerating limbs need "know" where to grow back from and to? Draw pictures from beautiful movies and stills of regenerating nerves and cardiac cells. RSVP
Photo: TSánchez-Iranzo, Héctor, et al. “Tbx5a Lineage Tracing Shows Cardiomyocyte Plasticity during Zebrafish Heart Regeneration.” Nature Communications, vol. 9, no. 1, Jan. 2018, p. 428. www.nature.com, doi:10.1038/s41467-017-02650-6.
Lower image and so much mofre information here. http://www.mun.ca/biology/desmid/brian/BIOL3530/DEVO_14/devo_14.html
“Axolotl Genome Slowly Yields Secrets of Limb Regrowth.” Quanta Magazine, https://www.quantamagazine.org/axolotl-genome-slowly-yields-secrets-of-limb-regrowth-20180702/
More information https://www.ibiology.org/cell-biology/axolotl-limb-regeneration/
Online drawing sessions are back! One short warm up followed by 10 five-minute drawings curated around a scientific theme. FREE with RSVP
This week - feathers! Development, morphology, evolution. This will be fun, and you know you want to see peacock feathers under a microscope.
The feather is a complex ectodermal organ with hierarchical branching patterns. It provides functions in endothermy, communication, and flight. Studies of feather growth, cycling, and health are of fundamental importance to avian biology and poultry science. In addition, feathers are an excellent model for morphogenesis studies because of their accessibility, and their distinct patterns can be used to assay the roles of specific molecular pathways. - quote and image From Chen et al (2017)
One very nice hour each week making drawings from scientific subjects.
Sixth in a series of low key, one hour, afternoon drawing sessions where we draw from science. One short warm up followed by 10 five-minute drawings curated around a scientific theme.
Together with Dr. Victoria Ruiz, this session will explore coexistence, community, resilience and diversity through the lens of microbes.
Victoria Ruiz is an Assistant Professor at St. Francis College and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at NYU Langone medical center. She obtained her PhD in Pathobiology from Brown University, and she completed her postdoctoral work at New York University Langone Medical Center. Her primary research focuses on the effects of environmental perturbations of microbial communities on host immunity and physiology. In addition to research, she is passionate about increasing equity and inclusion in STEM and developing innovative pedagogical strategies to improve learning outcome for undergraduate students interested in pursuing STEM fields.
From the Nature Collection on Microbial Ecologies
The interactions, population dynamics, and distributions of microbes are fundamentally important to both environmental and human health. Although there is great benefit in understanding the biology and ecology of microbes for their own sake, there is also broader ecological knowledge to be gained from the study of microbes. Increasingly, ecologists ask if microbes follow the same ecological ‘rules’ as macro-organisms. Systems microbial ecologists build simplified microbial communities from the ground up to test existing hypotheses about the rules governing species coexistence and competitive dynamics. Microbial biogeographers study the assembly and distributions of microbial communities across space, both independently of and jointly with the free-living species with which they associate. Regardless of scale, the unique biology of microbes provide ecologists with a puzzle in terms of unifying ecological theories.
Always free, just RSVP.
Solidarity
Art in the Lab Stands in full solidarity with Black Lives Matter and worldwide protests condemning and demanding justice for police brutality and an end to systemic racism. Our events are always free and everyone is welcome. Even a 5 minute drawing is better than no drawings. If drawing will lift someone up, please invite them to draw with you. If you can, donate to your favorite social justice organization. Do what you can. En esta lucha estamos todos juntos. El pueblo unido jamás será vencido
The fourth in a series of low key, one hour, afternoon drawing sessions. One short warm up followed by 10 five-minute drawings curated around a scientific theme.
Things are better together - just ask the ants. Alone they can lift more than 50 times their body weight and they can work together to lift things even heavier.
This week we celebrate and highlight these amazing social insects and one of NYCs best science outreach effort - BIOBUS! Biobus Chief Scientist Christine Marizzi has curated some great images for us to draw, based on this recent Biobus activity that you can try at home.
Image Credit: Eleanor Spicer Rice, PhD and Alex Wild - Dr. Eleanor's Ants of NYC
Free! Just RSVP!
Solidarity
Art in the Lab Stands in full solidarity with Black Lives Matter and worldwide protests condemning and demanding justice for police brutality and calling for an end to systemic racism. Our events are always free and everyone is welcome. Even a 5 minute drawing is better than no drawings. If drawing will lift someone up, please invite them to draw with you. If you can, donate to your favorite social justice organization. Do what you can. En esta lucha estamos todos juntos. El pueblo unido jamás será vencido
One very nice hour each week making drawings from scientific subjects.
Fifth in a series of low key, one hour, afternoon drawing sessions where we draw from science. One short warm up followed by 10 five-minute drawings curated around a scientific theme.
This week: Beyond the Individual
“It appears that there is no individuality in the classic biological sense. We have no anatomical individuality: most of our cells are microbial. No physiological individuality: we are joined in co-metabolism with our microbes. No developmental individuality: the microbes help build our guts and our immune system….” - Scott Gilbert Holobiont by Birth .
In the era of the Anthropocene, noticing microbial worlds seems more important than ever. Simply put, sustaining life requires sustaining symbioses. Noticing these symbioses and their wondrousness is a critical step. - Margaret McFall-Ngai , Noticing Microbial Worlds
This week we celebrate and highlight the collusion of organisms that make up our bodies - drawing from slides curated by Beth Tuck and the community at Genspace. Genspace is the world’s first community lab—a place where anyone can learn and work on biotechnology. Since 2009, Genspace has served the greater New York area by providing STEM educational outreach, classes for adults, cultural events, and a platform for science innovation at the grassroots level.
Free! Just RSVP
Solidarity
Art in the Lab Stands in full solidarity with Black Lives Matter and worldwide protests condemning and demanding justice for police brutality and an end to systemic racism. Our events are always free and everyone is welcome. Even a 5 minute drawing is better than no drawings. If drawing will lift someone up, please invite them to draw with you. If you can, donate to your fave social justice organization. Do what you can. En esta lucha estamos todos juntos. El pueblo unido jamás será vencido
The third in a series of low key, one hour, afternoon drawing sessions.
Bones, and shells, calcite crystals in your inner ear that are essential for equilibrium and balance. A deep sea gastropod covered in scales of pyrite. How do living cells make rocky components?
This week we celebrate and highlight minerals made by living things. We’ll draw images ranging from organismal, to microscopic and consider, explore and imagine how biominerals are and can be used by designers and engineers.
Image above: Otoconia from review by Kniep, 2015
Image below: Gastropod with pyrite foot scales from Anders Warén, et al 2003
Solidarity
Art in the Lab Stands in full solidarity with Black Lives Matter and worldwide protests condemning and demanding justice for police brutality. Our events are always free and everyone is welcome. Even a 5 minute drawing is better than no drawings. If drawing will lift someone up, please invite them to draw with you. If you can, donate to your fave social justice organization. Do what you can. En esta lucha estamos todos juntos.
The second in a series of low key, one hour, afternoon drawing sessions.
This week we celebrate and highlight the art and science based nonprofit ART+BIO Collaborative with images inspired by their education, outreach, and research programs in the Southwest. We’ll draw stunning flora and fauna and explore Desert Ecology through the predator-prey relationships of the unique animals of the Chihuahuan Desert.
Free but RSVP required:
The first in the a series of low key, afternoon drawing sessions. This weeks feature - #DotsAndStripes! Striped animals, dotted animals, and molecular basis of pigmentation patterns, like tabby cat (stripes) and cheetah (dots). Image from Kaelin et al doi: 10.1126/science.1220893
RSVP on Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/drawing-from-science-dots-and-stripes-tickets-105314610836#
retinal ganglion cell axons, confocal micrograph by alison dell
Art in the Lab is five years old! To celebrate and to promote exhibition opportunities at the intersection of science and art - we plan an exhibition showcasing art made or inspired by science and open to all participants and friends of Art in the Lab.
Works will be exhibited in the Callahan Center Gallery of St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY from March 4- May 4, 2020.
Interested in exhibiting your science-inspired creative work? Submit Here (Submissions Close on February 20, 2020)
It is both valentines day weekend and the coldest time of year. Come explore protective coverings such as skin, scales, feathers, and shells. RSVP to reserve your space at the microscope.
Its winter and we are layering up to stay warm - but what about the outer coverings of our fellow birds and beasts who use feathers, fur or scales? In this fun, low key drawing session, participants will have access to microscope slides of many creature-coverings, including human skin, snake skin, fish scales and butterfly wings. We’ll present a short talk on how we think and have thought about "cutaneous appendages" (the sciencey way of saying - hairs, scales, or feathers). Registration is capped so each participant can have unlimited time at their own microscope. Basic art supplies are provided, but feel free to bring your own. The butterfly wings are super awesome, so this might be a good time for painters to bring their favorite brushes.
Art in the Lab’s 2020 focus is structure/material/form. Biodesign interested? Please come say hello.
This Art in the Lab will focus on aquatic communities and organisms as well as the quality of drinking water. Participants are encouraged to bring a water sample from home to test for basic parameters, pH, nitrate, phosphate and turbidity. Basic art supplies are provided, but feel free to bring your own.
"Water is a key resource, citical for environmental health and economic growth. Anthropological Activities contaminate water, impacting its overall quality." This lab was co-organized with Marie Boutin an honors student at St. Francis College, performing her research on water quality and environmental stewardship. Please help spread the word about the work she is doing to survey Brooklyn's knowledge of its neighborhood environmental burdens.
FREE! RSVP required so we can save your space at the microscope.
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Delighted to give a short talk on Art in the Lab: Drawing from science to promote student and social engagement - U619
The line up for the day is really exciting and free with RSVP - hope to see you there.
This art in the lab will explore the neuroscience of touch this is our fourth year joining in celebrating the awesomness that is Brain Awareness Week . Thank you, Dana Foundation! RSVP so we can save your space at the microscope.
We are delighted to participate in and respond to the Environmental Empathies exhbit at SFC. Curated by Katherine Gressel, the show explores the connection between empathy and action around climate change. The exhibiting artists ask us to consider those experiencing the effects of climate change, and the plant and wildlife being impacted.
As part of the exhibit, Mary Mattingly’s edible garden and soil library invites visitors to collect local soil samples to both test and observe/draw under microscopes at SFC’s next Art in the Lab event on February 20. We will be be looking at cultured organisms from soil, and performing basic testing of soil samples that participants bring.
Bring some earth from your neighborhood, or just bring yourself. As always art supplies are provided, but feel free to bring your own. FREE but RSVP so we can save your space at the microscope.
We are super excited about this Art in the Lab, devoted to heart and lungs in honor of the Great American Smoke Out. and supported by the Truth Initiative
We will discuss and present a variety of clinical slides to inspire an afternoon of low key drawings and investigations. As always, the event is free, but space is limited. RSVP to reserve your space at the microscope. Basic art supplies are provided, but feel free to bring your own.
You grew from a single cell to the complex organism reading this event description. And you are not alone. Most organisms grow through the process of cell division. As adults, cell division helps maintain and heal our bodies. Uncontrolled cell disvision, however leads to cancer. In this Art in the Lab, supported by the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB); we invite you to draw to explore one of the basic moves of the cell using St. Francis College's extensive collection of teaching slides and models. For our lab activity we will be doing a quick and easy cell stain to examine normal and cancer cell morphology under a microscope. Special guest TBA. As always, basic art supplies are provided, but feel free to bring your own. FREE but RSVP to save your place at the microscope.
Thanks to the American Society for Cell Biology COMPASS fund for supporting this event.
This Earth Day's Art in the Lab is inspired by zoologist, inventor and speculative fictionist Verrill A. Hyatt’s 1940 book, Wonder Creatures of the Sea. Join us for a relaxed afternoon of drawing all kinds of water creatures from the teaching models and slide collections of Mercy College. 4/21 1-4pm As always free but RSVP required.
Inspired by The Beautiful Brain, an exhibit of Santiago Ramon y Cajals' drawings currently at NYU Grey Gallery, we are hosting TWO neuroscience themed art in the lab events. Both events invite participants to draw from some of Cajal's favorite subjects, including slides of the retina, cortex and spinal cord. This second event dovetails with our third year of partnering with the Dana Foundation to celebrate Brain Awareness Week.
As always, events are free, but space is limited so RSVP is required - sign up now so we can save your space at the microscope.
We are so inspired by the Beautiful Brain exhibit of Santiago Ramon y Cajals' drawings currently at NYU Grey Gallery, we are hosting TWO neuroscience themed art in the lab events. Both events invite participants to draw from some of Cajal's favorite subjects, including slides of the retina, cortex and spinal cord.
As always, events are free, but space is limited RSVP is required - sign up now so we can save your space at the microscope.
At this valentines themed art in the lab we will focus on the matters of the heart. We will draw from anatomical models as well as carry out a simple cell staining technique (Wright stain) to visualize different cell types in the blood.
As always the events is free but RSVP required to save your space at the microscope.
Copy copy copy. Come draw and explore one of the basic moves of the cell using St. Francis College's extensive collection of teaching slides and models. For our lab activity we will be doing a quick and easy cell stain to examine normal and cancer cell morphology under a microscope. Our microscope drawing inspiration will come from looking at cells dividing in animals and plants, during development as well as structures that do regenerate (hydra) and don't (mammalian spinal cord). As always, basic art supplies are provided, but feel free to bring your own.
Celebrate Earth Day and the springing of Spring with a Saturday afternoon of Art in the Lab at the Dobbs Ferry campus of Mercy College, overlooking the majestic Hudson River. We are delighted to host featured artist - Ellie Irons.
We provide basic art supplies, but feel free to bring your own. We'll have light coffee and snacks as well.
Location: Mercy College Visions Lab, Main Hall Room 315, 1-4pm. RSVP HERE
We are Pleased to Confirm our Second Annual Exhibition. featuring work made at Art in the Lab events in 2016.
Including work by: Matthew Addison, Anna Bellard, Alison Dell, Kris Dikeman, Raquel Esquives, Samaria Filosa, V. Gail, Irina Ellison, Nicola Gordon, Genie Ilmenev and Leonardo Vasconcelos-O'Neill, Chandi Lancaster, Leah Leonardo, Rob Swainston, Darya Warner and Joe DiGiorgis, Anne Whitman, Raida Yazdani
Please join us at the opening reception
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
4:30pm – 6 pm
Callahan Center Galleries
180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, NY
Art in the Lab is delighted to collaborate with the Morbid Anatomy Museum on a three-event series celebrating the historical context of science aesthetics.
Its winter and we are layering up to stay warm - but what about the outer coverings of our fellow birds and beasts who use feathers, fur or scales? In this fun, low key drawing session, participants will have access to microscope slides of many of creature-coverings, including human skin, snake skin, fish scales and butterfly wings. In addition to a short talk on how we think and have thought about "cutaneous appendages" (the sciency way of saying - hairs, scales, or feathers), we’ll provide some short suggested readings to power conversation after the event. Registration is capped so each participant can have unlimited time at their own microscope. Basic art supplies are provided, but feel free to bring your own. The butterfly wings suggest this might be a good one for painters to bring their favorite brushes (see image below).
Wednesday, December 14 6-9pm, Anatomy labs at St. Francis College. As always, the event is free but you MUST RSVP to save your space at the microscope.
