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Hunter Cole (formerly Hunter O'Reilly) is an internationally shown artist and an experienced geneticist. She reinterprets science as art through the creation of living artworks, abstractions, digital art and installations confronting issues related to biotechnology in our culture.Hunter Cole has created a series of Living Drawings with bioluminescent bacteria. These Living Drawings depict the cycle of life and death calling attention to our own mortality. Cole creates controlled line drawings using bioluminescent bacteria. The bacteria then grow on petri dishes. Bacteria become collaborators in the art as it grows and dies.Hunter Cole teaches biology, genetics and art at Loyola University Chicago. She created two new courses including: Biology through Art, and BioArt: Exploring Living Organisms through Art. Biology through Art helps students from all disciplines to think outside the box. This course focuses on several areas in the biological sciences from molecular biology to human anatomy. Students view microorganisms, use DNA as an artistic medium, create music based on DNA sequence, and see anatomy as art. Contemporary artists that use biological concepts and biological materials in their art are discussed. The BioArt course focuses on art that incorporates living organisms. The course also looks at art that incorporates actual blood as a medium in the art.Specialties: painting, digital art, photography, video, installation and drawing with bioluminescent and genetically engineered bacteria

Listed skills include Art, Drawing, Molecular Biology, Science, and 21 others.