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SUMMARY:Bacteria as an Embroidered Stitch Workshop
DESCRIPTION:2024 UCSF Library Artist in Residence\, Ruth Tabancay\, 
 presents “Bacteria as an Embroidered Stitch.”\n\nJoin us for a craft 
 that celebrates what’s seen under the microscope! In this hands-on 
 embroidery workshop\, artist Ruth Tabancay will teach participants how to 
 make two types of stitches that resemble bacteria as seen microscopically 
 and mealworms in actual size! Instructions will be provided on how to 
 create embroidery set in Petri dishes. Experience is helpful but not 
 necessary to participate.\n\nThe workshop is presented on Earth Day\, April 
 22\, to draw attention to the extreme problem of plastic pollution that is 
 overwhelming the planet.\n\nWhat to bring\n\nThis is an in-person workshop. 
 All materials will be provided.\n\nRegistration is required and open to 
 UCSF ID badge holders. Admission for this workshop is FREE.\n\nInspiration 
 for the workshop\n\nAs a bacteriology major and medical student\, Ruth 
 Tabancay has developed a long-standing and intimate visual relationship 
 with micro-organisms\, as seen through a microscope. Using characteristics 
 of bacteria and fungi (e.g.\, shape\, color\, relative size\, flagella\, 
 endospores\, arrangement\, and immunofluorescence)\, she embroidered 
 microorganisms and set them into Petri dishes. Her series\, What’s In You 
 and On You: Normal Flora and Pathogens\, depicts more than 50 kinds of 
 microorganisms rendered in hand embroidery\, identifiable by their stitched 
 characteristics. \n\nThis led to her series\, Adapting to New Substrates. 
 Combined with her research into living organisms’ ability to digest 
 plastic\, she created a series of art works of embroidered organisms on 
 various kinds of plastic discards. Mealworms such as Tenebrio molitor\, 
 Tenebrio obscurans\, and Zophobas morio have been shown to digest 
 polystyrene (Styrofoam)\; Bacillus pseudofirmus\, low density polyethene 
 (LDPE)\; Ideonella sakaiensis\, polyethlene terephthalate 
 (PET).\n\nAccomodations\n\nUCSF welcomes everyone\, including people with 
 disabilities to our events. To request a reasonable accommodation for this 
 event\, please contact Dylan Romero by emailing dylan.romero@ucsf.edu as 
 soon as possible.\n\nQuestions?\n\nContact Dylan Romero at 
 dylan.romero@ucsf.edu if you have questions about this event.\n\n\n\nImage 
 credit: Dana Davis
LOCATION:CL216\, Parnassus
ORGANIZER;CN="UCSF Library Special Events":MAILTO:librarynews@ucsf.edu
CATEGORIES:Archives and Special Collections, Artist in Residence, Makers Lab, ZSFG
CONTACT;CN="UCSF Library Special Events":MAILTO:librarynews@ucsf.edu
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URL:https://calendars.library.ucsf.edu/event/14072688
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