Megan Biesinger paints lungs covered in flowers on her agar plate for the art competition. She uses a drawing on paper towels underneath the plate to trace the image in translucent bacteria paint.

Cheryl Ann Lipstreu, an artist from Belews Creek, is in the middle of what she calls “an exceptionally busy but fantastic, very productive summer” — and that’s not even counting her appearances on ...

When plein air painters gathered along the Carmel coastline in the nascent 1900s, setting their easels in the sandy loam long before there was a scenic road or paved pathway, and well before the sea ...