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Get your DoT

IN THE STEM PORTRAIT

Become Part

of the Work of Art

GET YOUR

HAND-DRAWN DOT

PLACED FOR YOU

IN THE

STEM POINTILLISM
PORTRAIT

This is the one and only official website connecting you

to the live drawing being created in Los Angeles. 

Always free. Always fun.

This project is open to everyone!

Dot Highlights

Emily I.
Science Dot

“I want to be a veterinarian when I grow up. I will be taking many biology classes in college so I will know how to help animals that are sick or injured.”

Award Winning Project!

Artist, David Ilan, wins the prestigious Mensa Foundation Intellectual Benefit to Society Award for the STEM Pointillism Project. Foundation President, Marie Mayer, presented David with the award at the American Mensa Annual Gathering event in Indianapolis.

Featured Live Event

Variety Boys' & Girls' Club

At live events, students have the opportunity
to watch an exciting presentation
from a professional in a STEM field,
witness their dot being placed in the
STEM Pointillism Portrait,
and learn to draw using only dots. 

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This event at The Boys' and Girls' Club
in East Los Angeles featured
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Senior Systems Engineer Dr. Mike Sievers.

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Dr. Mike Sievers talks to the kids about what it will take to travel to Mars.

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Looking at 3D images of Mars taken from the Curiosity rover.

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Dr. Mike Sievers talks to the kids about what it will take to travel to Mars.

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Getting a dot in the STEM Portrait.

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Getting a dot in the STEM Portrait.

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Getting a dot in the STEM Portrait.

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Getting a dot in the STEM Portrait.

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Learning to draw using only dots.

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Learning to draw using only dots.

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Dr. Mike Sievers and Artist David Ilan

photos by Emily Ilan

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