Bloom Research promotes artistic inquiry within the context of the biological sciences with “Consilience: Artists Presentation Initiative". This lecture series features both nationally recognized and emerging artists who employ the disciplines of Biology and Environmental Science for crossing boundaries, making connections, and creating new categories for cultural production. These artists’ practices, though often poetic and discursive by nature, are nevertheless actively informed by the rigors and intellectual intricacies of scientific investigation. The presenters in this lecture series use varied scientific methodologies as their muse, and—on occasion—as their medium as well.