Klari reis bacteria and cells for kids

Artist Klari Reis creates art in Petri dishes. Like the cultures you would expect to find there, the daubs of colour bloom, bleeding paint seems frozen in time, whisps and tendrils reach across the glossy surfaces reminding us of past science lessons and images from under the microscope.

The desire to peer closer is inevitable.

This is art and science on two levels. Not only does the art look like biological forms but the artist Klari Reis experiments with the reactions of acrylics, oils, dyes and epoxy polymer to achieve these mesmerising effects.

In the UK all art teachers talk about turning STEM into STEAM.

Klari reis bacteria and cells for kids video

STEM subjects in schools are Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. You turn it into STEAM by adding ‘Art’. What would a curriculum be without art?

I’ve been talking to Klari Reis about her work and she’s provided some great information for us and our students.

She has also kindly contributed images for a