Description
Step into the hidden world of mushroom color! Though often overlooked, fungi hold some of the most surprising and gratifying hues in nature. Join Julie Beeler—artist, farmer, and creator of the Mushroom Color Atlas—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.
About the Instructor
Her work has been featured by The New York Times, Popular Science, The Smithsonian Institution and The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, among others. Julie created the Mushroom Color Atlas website to celebrate the resplendent chromatic universe hidden within the fungi kingdom. Her book The Mushroom Color Atlas, published by Chronicle Books, is a comprehensive primer on the universe of colors lurking inside fungi. It is equal parts art book, field guide, and dye-making workshop. Julie founded Bloom & Dye, a natural dye studio and farm in the Pacific Northwest ideally situated for foraging mushrooms, growing fresh-cut color, and creating fine art.
Learn More
www.juliebeeler.com
Materials List
You will need to bring:
For the field trip to the forest students need to bring: water bottle, sack lunch, collecting basket or bag, knife for cutting mushrooms. Participants must wear good sturdy shoes for walking in the woods. Participants need to bring layered clothing and be prepared for weather, including rain gear.
For the work in the fiber studio they can bring an apron and pen. If they want to wear gloves in the dye pot they need to bring a pair.
Provided by instructors:
Julie will provide a mushroom dye chart, various fiber samples, dye mushrooms, dye pigments, paint, paper, printing making materials, silk bandana, and other various supplies and tools to make and create the different samples along with books and a craft notebook that includes mushroom dye recipes.