STEM From Dance is exciting young minds about science and technology through a unique route—the arts. Since 2012, the New York City-based organization has been using dance to inspire girls, especially those from underrepresented minority backgrounds, to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) to diversify these fields.

Pollution often conjures images of smokestacks rising into the sky or dirty water flowing down a stream. But what about the pollution beneath our feet—the contamination moving among particles of soil or between grains of sand?

When Dr. Kevin Mumford agreed to host an artist at his environmental engineering laboratory at Queen’s University, he expected a painter or sculptor to appear. Instead, creative coder Owen Fernley walked through the door, marking the beginning of what would become a surprising and memorable two weeks for the research group.

Want to witness architecture come alive? Now you can with Philip Beesley’s Meander, the largest living architecture sculpture in the world, which is permanently on display at Tapestry Hall in Cambridge, Ontario.

Portuguese fibre artist Vanessa Barragão creates stunning underwater seascape tapestries that carry a message about the environment. Armed with latch and crochet hooks, discarded yarn scraps, and visions of the sea, she handmakes immense pieces that often center around coral reefs.

For nearly a decade, the Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences (CPNAS) has hosted monthly D.C. Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER) salons to foster conversation and collaboration between scientists, artists, and the public.

As the coronavirus swept across the globe this spring, the Scripps Research Center for Computational Structural Biology in association with the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank drew attention to the virus’s structure through art.

“We come from the stars,” says artist and astronomer Dr. Annette Lee. But she doesn’t just mean the atoms that make up our physical beings, as told by astrophysicists.

The Exploring Life Through SciArt exhibition united the science and art communities of East Lansing, Michigan. Organized by the Michigan State University Science Communication Organization (MSU SciComm) in 2019, this exhibition featured original science-art collaborations created by university science students and local artists.

Catie Cuan, a performer, choreographer, and technologist, lives by the notion that “dance is harmonious with everything.”

Coding is often used as a functional tool, such as for building websites or analyzing data. But for creative coder Zach Lieberman, code is an artistic medium.

Why paint with watercolours when you can paint with antibiotics? Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Vineetha Zacharia found a unique way to blend her science with her love of art. She paints with an antibiotic called actinorhodin, which is one of the colourful byproducts of the bacterium she studies.