Enjoy at talk about the Mushroom Color Atlas and discover the stunning and diverse range of colors derived from the kaleidoscopic fungi kingdom. Hear about my process, learn how to forage and identify dye mushrooms and discover how to transform the color into dyes, pigments, paints and inks.

Enjoy a conversation with Raíz Symbiotisk, an artist-curator duo that teams up Emma Wood and Pamela Vázquez. They will discuss the inspiration and research behind their current Textile Center exhibition, "Archive II: Regeneration." We will also hear from exhibiting artists Julie Beeler, Lucero Paniagua Ortuño, and Kelly Wilson.

Curious about mushrooms for colour? In this online virtual demonstration, designer, artist, educator and creator of the @mushroomcoloratlas Julie Beeler, will teach how to extract and unlock the ‘tinctoria’ of common, easy to identify wild mushrooms.

She will cover general mushroom dye techniques, types of mushrooms and walk through the process of making dye baths and dyeing the fibre. She will talk about basic mushroom identification skills for a variety of dye mushrooms, discussing habitat, ethical foraging and safety. There will be a demonstration on how to yield a myriad of colours on wool, silk and cellulose fibres. We will transform the dye and explore the process of lake making to create mushroom pigments that can be used in a variety of forms ranging from water colours, inks, crayons, pastels and paint for fibre. This is a virtual class taking place on October 4 from 4-6pm BST/ 8-10am Pacific Time with @plants_and_color.

This is one two hour class taught live over Zoom. There will be an opportunity to ask questions of Julie during the live session. The live class is limited to 20 attendees. The class will be recorded and provided to them for review for two months. 

Calling all you indigo growers! Whether you have a small pot of indigo growing on your porch, a larger plot in your garden or you dream of growing indigo someday, the opportunities are endless when working with fresh leaf indigo.

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Fiber enthusiasts! Curious about fungi & natural pigments? Combine your interests and learn how to use mushrooms to create beautiful, vibrant, and nontoxic dyes perfect for any natural fiber.   Often forgotten in the realm of textiles, mushrooms have long been used as natural dyes, yielding some of nature's most vibrant colors. Artist, farmer, and aspiring mycologist, Julie Beeler, will go through various dye techniques, as students explore the myriad of shades these forest friends offer us. She will cover general mushroom dye techniques, types of mushrooms and walk through the process of making dye baths and dyeing the fiber. Julie will teach everyone about the lake making process which is a great way to extract pigment from the mushroom dye baths, and convert the pigment into a solution for painting and printing. Learn the process of lake making and techniques for storing and using the pigment. Play with mixing mushroom pigments and explore different ways to mix, bind and apply the paint with natural materials. Students will leave with fiber samples, mushroom pigment samples, a large hand-dyed silk scarf, and an instructional craftbook including mushroom dye recipes.

These workshops are only open to Los Angeles Mycological Society members. Become a member! It is an annual $25 fee and you will get access to their forays, newsletter and workshops. 

The morning workshop will be held from 10am-1pm and will focus on using mushrooms to create beautiful, vibrant dyes perfect for any natural fiber. In class we will cover general mushroom dye techniques, types of mushrooms and walk through the process of making dye baths and dyeing the fiber. Students will create a mushroom color chart featuring a myriad of colors from these forest friends on wool and silk fiber. The provided instructional craftbook will allow everyone to continue their exploration in more depth on their own at home.

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The afternoon workshop will be held from 2-5pm and will focus on extracting pigments from mushrooms to make paints and inks perfect for any artist. In class we will unlock the pigments of commonly found Southern California and West Coast dye mushrooms. We will cover the lake making process which is a great way to extract pigment from dye baths, and convert the pigment into a solution for painting and printing. Learn the process of making inks and play with mixing pigments into paints by exploring different ways to mix, bind and apply the pigment with natural materials. The provided instructional craftbook will allow everyone to continue their exploration in more depth on their own.

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Often forgotten in the realm of textiles, fungi has long been used as a natural dye, yielding some of nature's most vibrant colors! Learn to use mushrooms to create beautiful, vibrant dyes perfect for any natural fiber. Artist, farmer, and creator of the Mushroom Color Atlas Julie Beeler will guide students through various dye techniques as students explore the myriad of shades these forest friends offer us. Students will leave with wool fiber samples for the rainbow of colors they create, a large hand-dyed silk scarf, and an instructional craftbook including mushroom dye recipes. No previous experience necessary, though a fantastic workshop for practicing dyers.

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Curious about natural pigments? In this workshop, designer, artist, educator and flower farmer Julie Beeler, will teach a variety of techniques to extract pigments and transform them into inks and paints. You will play with organically grown botanical flowers and wild foraged mushrooms.

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Curious about fungi? Have a love of fiber? Combine your interests and learn how to use mushrooms to create beautiful, vibrant, and nontoxic dyes perfect for any natural fiber.

Artist and flower farmer, and mycophile, Julie Beeler will teach participants how to unlock the ‘tinctoria’ of three different, commonly found West Coast dye mushrooms. Students will dye a total of 6 mini skeins of locally raised Spring Coyote Ranch churro wool that can be used in a variety of projects from fingerless gloves to a cowl.

In class we will cover general mushroom dye techniques, types of mushrooms and walk through the process of making dye baths and dyeing the fiber. We will wrap up the class making a lake pigment with the dye baths and setting it up to strain, rinse and dry. The instructional craft-book will allow everyone to continue their exploration in more depth at their own pace.

Students should bring the following supplies:

• Apron if you want to protect your clothes

• Gloves if you want to protect your hands

Workshop Tuition: $120 which includes materials fee

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Curious about fungi? Have a love of fiber? Combine your interests and learn how to use mushrooms to create beautiful, vibrant, and nontoxic dyes perfect for any natural fiber.

This online Zoom workshop with Botanical Colors will take place on one Saturday, November 12, 2022. The workshop will be broken into two sessions. We will start at 9am Pacific and finish at 2:30pm Pacific. We will have 1 hour in between each session.

In this mushroom dye & pigment workshop I will teach you how to extract and unlock the mushrooms ‘tinctoria’ of common, easy to identify wild mushrooms. I will cover general mushroom dye techniques, types of mushrooms and walk through the process of making dye baths and dyeing the fiber. We will transform the mushroom dyes and explore the process of lake making to create mushroom pigments that can be used in a variety of forms ranging from water colors, crayons, pastels and paint. There will be Q&A about everything we covered in the class, discuss best practices for foraging, review a list of available resources and more.

The workshop includes a materials kit. It will include 4 different dye mushrooms, pre-mordanted fiber, supplies to make ‘lakes’ from your dye baths and an at home equipment list.

You will get the most out of the workshop if you are prepared and follow along doing the steps with me while at home. If you find that style is too fast paced you can follow along and then at your own leisure create your mushroom dyes and pigments. The Zoom recording of the workshop and online will be posted the same day. It will remain up for you to review for 90 days.

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I will be giving a live online demonstration with mushroom pigments, paints and inks with Art Tool Kit. Located in Port Townsend, WA they make expedition-proven tools for sketching and painting, for urban and wilderness adventures. Art Tool Kit believes that art can be not only a tool for self-expression, but for communication, exploration, and scientific inquiry. I couldn’t be more thrilled to talk about the interconnectedness of mushroom pigments to inspire people to connect with nature and create art anytime, anywhere, every day.

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Calling all you urban indigo growers! Whether you have a small pot of indigo growing on your porch or a larger plot in your garden, the opportunities are endless when working with fresh leaf indigo. Learn different techniques for creating a range of blues from light to dark on silk, wool and cotton fibers. We will make a variety of different indigo baths and vats, explore processes for mixing, binding and finishing indigo dyed pieces. Play with freshly extracted pigment to paint and print on fabric.

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Our local White Salmon Arts Council does amazing things for our community and they host quarterly artists chats. I am honored to have been invited to talk about my work and hope you can join me.

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Fiber enthusiasts! Curious about fungi & natural pigments? Combine your interests and learn how to use mushrooms to create beautiful, vibrant, and nontoxic dyes perfect for any natural fiber. I will teach students how to unlock the famed Dyer’s Polypore ‘tinctoria.’ Everyone will create a mushroom color chart that will document the colors of this famed mushroom across different fiber types. We will cover general mushroom dye techniques, types of mushrooms and walk through the process of making dye baths and dyeing the fiber. I will teach everyone about the lake making process which is a great way to extract pigment from the mushroom dye baths, and convert the pigment into a solution for painting and printing. Learn the process of lake making and techniques for storing and using the pigment. Play with mixing mushroom pigments into inks by exploring different ways to mix, bind and apply the pigment with natural materials.

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Join me for a discussion about the Mushroom Color Atlas on Feedback Friday hosted by Botanical Colors. At the beginning of the pandemic Botanical Colors started hosting a weekly online gathering that grew out of their tradition of a weekly Q&A post. They have now hosted over 80 Feedback Friday events with artists, designers, researchers, scientists, makers and dyers from around the world.

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Join me in conversation with the Surface Design Association and Studio Art Quilt Associates weekly Textile Talk series about the Mushroom Color Atlas. Discover the stunning and diverse range of colors derived from the kaleidoscopic fungi kingdom. Hear about my process, learn how to forage and identify dye mushrooms and discover how to transform the color into dyes, pigments, paints and inks.

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I will be introducing attendees to the fascinating alchemy of natural dyes in my demonstration Colors from the Dye Garden. I will show you how to discover the dye plants growing around us and teach how to unlock a plant's natural ‘tinctoria.' I will share some of my favorite, easy-to-grow dye plants, with tips on how to extract unique and colorful pigments for textile dyeing and other new forms of botanical artwork, including sample project ideas.

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Natural Dyers! Painters! Curious about what to do with that leftover dye bath? Interested in making your own botanical pigments? The lake making process is a great way to extract pigment from natural dye baths, and convert that pigment into a solution for painting and printing. In this class, I will guide the group in making lake pigments from dye plants grown at my flower farm, Bloom & Dye. Learn the process of lake making and techniques for storing and using the pigment. Play with mixing pigments into inks by exploring different ways to mix, bind and apply the pigment with natural materials. Each student will take home samples on fabric and paper, a set of watercolor paints, along with a craft notebook full of recipes and instruction.

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For people curious about fungi and fiber and combining their interests to learn how to unlock the mushrooms ‘tinctoria.’ In this beginner mushroom dyeing workshop, in collaboration with Flora from Plants & Colour in the UK, you will learn how to extract and unlock the mushrooms ‘tinctoria’ of common, easy to identify wild mushrooms. This is a virtual class taking place on October 28 from 8-10am Pacific Time.

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