How to Create Agar Art with Living Microbes

Step inside the creative process with Agar Art 2015 winners Maria Peñil Cobo, Mixed Media Artist, and Mehmet Berkmen, PhD, Staff Scientist at New England Biolabs. During their multiyear collaboration, Maria and Memo have created astonishing works of art using living microbes. Find out how they meld science and art with this behindthescenes howto video guide. Inspired Submit your own agar art to ASMs Agar Art 2017 contest through April 27, 2017 Prizes include up to 200 in Amazon gift cards and the chance for your art to be featured in the Agar Art Gallery at ASM Microbe 2017 June 15, 2017 in New Orleans, LA. Submissions must be highresolution photos of an organism(s) growing on agar. Submitting artists must be ASM members ( or work with an official ASM Agar Art partner organization to create the submitted piece. Questions Contact communicationsasmu