A sample of what is coming can be found in the (highly popular!) galleries below, containing over 1,400 pictures and movies of microfluidic devices, cellular micropatterns, microstructures, and cells in general (most unpublished, often unpublishable to be honest, but all free for you to download and enjoy -- keep visiting, we add new pictures almost every week!):

Welcome to the FolchLabART website! Scroll to the bottom of the page for the link to our gallery. All our art is now for sale through SeattleOnCanvas. (We use all the proceeds to produce more art.) We have now organized two exhibits in Seattle and one more is underway in Barcelona for March 2011... Below are the pictures from the exhibit in the Harborview Hospital in Seattle and the on-going exhibit at the UW Meany Hall. You can also view the original pictures here and the UW News story. Click the image below to see the actual framed pictures.

NEW! If you are interested in buying high-resolution prints, we have made all the above (and many additional works) available on canvas (a less expensive packaging process than paper and framing) through SeattleOnCanvas. The average price for a print (24"x18", ready to hang) is $180, depending on size. After subtracting the production cost (~$110), SeattleOnCanvas transfers the money to the University of Washington (free of overhead), and the Folch lab students use it to produce more art. You will be supporting education!

In addition to our own work, we plan to bring art students into the lab to build microdevices and generate visually-arresting micrographs, which will be shown in exhibits and books.
In particular, as educators we are attracted by the mental exercise that our images trigger in inquisitive minds ("What is this?"). We will seize that moment and we will use art as a bait to introduce scientific concepts to minds in such receptive states.
We are interested in the educational experience of blurring the lines between science and art. We call this concept BAIT, for Bringing Art Into Technology.