Curious about fungi? Have a love affair with color? Combine your interests and explore the realm of color created from mushrooms. They have long been used as a source of natural color, yielding some of nature’s most vibrant colors. In this workshop, artist, farmer and creator of the Mushroom Color Atlas Julie Beeler will teach students how to identify and unlock the hidden colors within easy to identify wild mushrooms and transform them into dyes, pigments, paints and inks.
The workshop will begin with a day in the forest, where participants will learn to identify and forage for dye mushrooms with guidance from Julie. The following two days will be spent in the studio, exploring various mushroom dye techniques, including making pigments, inks, and watercolors. Participants will learn how to extract dyes from mushrooms and create their own pigments. By the end of the workshop, they will have mushroom-dyed fiber samples, a hand-dyed bandana, pigment, paint, ink samples, and an instructional craftbook, along with a solid understanding of how to find, forage, and identify dye mushrooms.
*Members enrollment opens Feb. 20. Public enrollment opens March 6.