bioart

Microbes strut the catwalk in Bioart fashion show

Student dressed in a yellow raincoat covered in fake leaves with spiralled pink pool noodles on their headVisual art student Delia Poirier walks the runway as Lyme disease (JUSTIN ELLIOTT @jel_media/University of Windsor)

By Kate Hargreaves 

Black mold, salmonella, E. coli and even brain-eating amoeba took over the CAW Student Centre March 16. 

What sounds like a health and safety nightmare was not, in fact, a biohazard but rather a Bioart fashion show coordinated by School of Creative Arts professor and Canada Research Chair Dr. Jennifer Willet.