The Sitka Center for Art & Ecology hosts their annual Art Invitational every October and I am honored to be included amongst this year’s artists. The show is on view October 16-18 from 11am-5pm at the Oregon Contemporary. There are over 300 works inspired by nature and ecology. All purchases support Sitka’s nonprofit programs promoting arts and nature access for all.

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Join me and Botanical Colors for a three-day immersive workshop, October 9–11, exploring the vibrant world of mushroom dyes. We’ll forage for wild fungi, extract luminous color in the studio, and finish the weekend with a handmade traveling stitching kit filled with your own mushroom-dyed threads.

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Step into the hidden world of mushroom color! Though often overlooked, fungi hold some of the most surprising and gratifying hues in nature. Join me for this hands-on workshop. You'll journey from forest to studio: we begin with an inspiring day in the woods, learning to spot, identify, and respectfully forage dye mushrooms while deepening your understanding of the mycological world.

Back in the studio, you’ll transform your harvest into dazzling dyes, pigments, paints, and inks—unlocking a spectrum of color you never knew mushrooms could hold. Through guided demonstrations and creative play, you’ll explore extraction techniques and experiment with the full palette these forest friends offer.

You’ll head home with the confidence to find and identify dye mushrooms on your own, plus a beautiful collection of your creations: a mushroom color chart, a hand-dyed bandana, pigment and ink samples, and a detailed instructional craftbook to continue your journey into the art of mushroom color.

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I am thrilled to be part of the four-day celebration of mushrooms (and all fungi)! The Radical Mycology Convergence is so mush more than a conference, and not quite your typical festival. With dozens of ways to celebrate and engage with fungi, the Convergence offers something for everyone. I will be offering up a mushroom dye demonstration on Saturday, September 26 and the next day on Sunday, September 27 we will be transforming the dyes into mushroom pigments. The RMC is immersive training, friendly competitions, evening entertainment, international art, and citizen science.

A family-friendly, inclusive event that is meant for anyone excited about mushrooms – beginners welcomed!

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I am delighted to be part of Adoration of Light, an exhibition curated by Iris Sullivan Daire (@dreambirdstudio) at Astoria Visual Arts (AVA). This remarkable group show celebrates the color yellow and the many natural sources of its brilliance, bringing together artists who explore pigments and dyes from the natural world. It is a true honor to exhibit alongside this inspiring group of artists whose work reflects the beauty, complexity, and wonder of yellow found in our environment. Adoration of Light will be on view throughout September at AVA in Astoria, Oregon. The opening reception is Saturday, September 12.

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This August I’ll be at the Denver Botanic Gardens for a colorful series of workshops and an evening talk celebrating the vibrant pigments hidden in plants and fungi. Join me for a half-day Painting with Natural Pigments workshop, a two-day immersive Creating Natural Pigments from Flora & Funga course where you’ll harvest, experiment, and transform materials into lake pigments and watercolor paints to take home in your own handmade palette, or the evening talk Color Stories from Fungi, where we’ll explore the surprising palette of mushrooms and swatch their colors together.

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Step into the vibrant world where art and ecology meet. In this hands-on, two day workshop you’ll discover the hidden spectrum of color within wild mushrooms and learn how to transform them into dyes, pigments, inks, and paints. Explore sustainable practices while experimenting with mushroom dye techniques, lake pigments, and ink making. Along the way, create a dye journal of swatches, craft a bottle of mushroom ink, and mull your own paint. Together, we’ll unlock fungi’s alchemy and leave with tools, recipes, and inspiration for future creative exploration.

For those already captivated by the world of fungi, SOMA Camp January 16-19, offers a unique way to dive deeper—through forays, cooking demos, microscopy, DNA lab, gourmet food and the incredible colors of mushrooms! I’m delighted to be a keynote speaker alongside David Aurora and Gabrielle Cerberville, and I’ll also be leading a hands-on, half-day immersion into the vibrant art of mushroom-based dyes and pigments. Come explore, experiment, and discover the stunning colors mushrooms can bring to your work.

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Ready to dive into the magical world of fungi and natural color? Whether you are enchanted by the beauty of wild mushrooms or fascinated by the art of botanical dyes, this workshop offers the perfect blend of science, creativity, and hands-on exploration. All week long we are going to be tapping into the colors hidden in nature’s most surprising places! Join me as we go on a vibrant journey through the funga and flora kingdoms.

You will learn how to unlock the mesmerizing hues from wild mushrooms and easily grown plants while discovering sustainable practices that feel refreshingly radical in today’s world. Throughout this workshop, we will roam through the property, gathering natural treasures for dyeing, while discussing ethical foraging and identification skills. Then, in the dye studio, we will create a kaleidoscope of colors, delving into the art of over-dyeing and learning to achieve stunning results on different fibers like wool, silk, and linen. Imagine turning leaves into blue, roots into reds, and blossoms into brilliant yellows and mushrooms into the rainbow beneath your feet.

Everyone will create their own Japanese-inspired, handmade dye journal to house all these beautiful swatches. From eco-printing your cover to stitching it all together with your custom-dyed thread, this journal will be a beautiful keepsake of your colorful adventure. Expect plenty of opportunities to explore the farm’s natural wonders, ask all your burning questions about foraging and dyeing, and soak up the beauty of the land around you.

This workshop is ideal for those with experience in natural dyeing who want to take their practice to the next level — and have a lot of fun doing it! Students will leave with an understanding of how to work with dye mushrooms and plants to achieve a range of colors across a variety of natural fibers (wool, silk & linen), in-depth expansion of mordanting techniques to optimize vibrant hues, exploration of overdyeing techniques between funga and flora, basic eco printing and itajime shibori skills, techniques for naturally dyeing paper, and learning the Japanese stab binding method.

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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.

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*Members enrollment opens Feb. 20. Public enrollment opens March 6.

I am thrilled to be part of the incredible line up at the All Things Fungi Festival in Sussex, England. This annual festival is where art meets science and you can delve into the world of Kingdom Fungi, from soil health to mental wellness. It is a celebration of art, culture, and community.

Join me for a presentation and discussion about fungal alchemy–transforming mushrooms into dyes, pigments, paints and inks on Friday. The following day I will be giving a workshop where participants will unlock nature’s hidden color palette. Everyone  will discover how to identify dye mushrooms, extract their unique colors, create mushroom-based pigments and paints, and make their very own ATFF mushroom-dye bandana.

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Curious about mushrooms for colour? In this online virtual demonstration I will teach you how to extract and unlock the universe of colours lurking inside fungi. Working with natural colorants is a time-honoured, hands-on, rich experience. Learning to extract these natural colours—which requires making countless decisions with our eyes, hands, and aesthetic intuitions—gives us an intimate connection to the hues and their fungi sources. 

I will cover general techniques for coaxing pigment from mushrooms and walk through the process of making a lake using different types of mushrooms. We will talk about basic mushroom identification skills for a variety of dye mushrooms, discussing habitat, ethical foraging and safety. I will demonstrate how to make watercolor paint using the lake pigment and you will see mushroom pigments can be used in a variety of forms ranging from oil paints, inks, crayons, pastels and printing making ink–perfect for any artist. 

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Ready to dive into the magical world of fungi and natural color? Whether you are enchanted by the beauty of wild mushrooms or fascinated by the art of botanical dyes, this workshop offers the perfect blend of science, creativity, and hands-on exploration.

Join me as I take you on a vibrant journey through the funga and flora kingdoms. You will learn how to unlock the mesmerizing hues from wild mushrooms and easily-grown plants while discovering sustainable practices that feel refreshingly radical in today's world.

Over the course of this workshop, we will create a kaleidoscope of colors, delving into the art of over-dyeing and learning to achieve stunning results on different fibers like wool, silk, and linen. Imagine turning leaves into blue, roots into reds, and blossoms into brilliant yellows and mushrooms into the rainbow beneath your feet.

Everyone will create their own dye journal to house all these beautiful swatches, this journal will be a beautiful keepsake of your colorful adventure. Expect opportunities to explore the stunning landscape of the Salish Sea, ask all your burning questions about foraging and dyeing, and soak up the beauty of the land around you. This workshop is best for those with experience in natural dyeing who want to take their practice to the next level — and have a lot of fun doing it!

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