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The word for art in ancient Greece, is techne, a word from which technique and technology are derived —terms that are applied to both scientific and artistic practices. Science and art, more often than not, are known to have been placed in two completely separate categories. Recently however, a greater emphasis has been placed on the importance of the similarities between science and art, as opposed to the differences along with the need for the two subjects to be recognized as connected. Science has long been viewed as a subject associated with logic, analyzation, and discovery, whereas the subject of art has always been viewed as being associated with creativity, emotion, and self expression. As opposed to 20 years ago, science and art are no longer being viewed as mutually exclusive. It is of immense significance to recognize that science and art are alike in that they are both a means of investigation and consist of ideas, theories, and testing out those ideas and theories whether in a laboratory or art studio. For this reason, a scientist should be able to appreciate art just as much as an artist should be able to appreciate science. With naturetech, we see women who have vastly explored this relationship between art and science and are currently contributing to the conversation about their intersection. Their playful interpretations of the world around them offer new and creative thinking about subjects that were always kept separate.