Total cost of Workshop: $200 (includes $25 reg fee and $25 materials fee)
Date: Wednesday, Mar 19th, 2025 (9am-4pm)

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 nature’s colors, this workshop offers the perfect blend of science, creativity, and hands-on exploration. In this day-long workshop we are going to be tapping into the colors hidden in nature’s most surprising places!

Join artist, farmer, and Mushroom Color Atlas creator Julie Beeler as she takes you on a vibrant journey through the fungi kingdom. You will learn how to unlock the mesmerizing hues from wild mushrooms and transform them into dyes, pigments, paints and inks. Julie will cover general mushroom dye techniques, dyeing different paper samples. She will explore the process of lake making to create mushroom pigments that can be used in a variety of forms. You will learn different extraction methods for making inks and mull your own watercolor paint. Everyone will create a mini accordion book to record and capture the color. You will assemble a few different mushroom dyed paper samples and everyone will take home some sample mushroom paint and an instructional craftbook including mushroom dye recipes. Throughout class we will have opportunities for questions and discussions on everything we cover in the class, including best practices for foraging, reviewing a list of available resources and more.

Please bring the following to the course:

• • Writing pen & note-taking supplies
  • Apron (if you prefer to protect your clothes)
  • Gloves (if you prefer to protect your hands)
  • Water bottle
  • Small jars to bring home any left over dye baths

Instructor Will Provide:

• • Dye mushrooms, mushroom paint and mushroom ink
  • Mordanted paper for dyeing
  • Materials for pigment, paint, ink making
  • Materials for zig-zag notebook
  • Instructional craft notebook
  • Limited samples, examples and resources
  • Various supplies necessary to teach the class

Instructor Bio

Julie Beeler is an acclaimed designer, artist, and educator inspired by the natural world. 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 unveil and celebrate the resplendent chromatic universe hidden within the fungi kingdom, making it accessible to people around the world. Her book The Mushroom Color Atlas, recently 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. In every form her effort is a timeless reference that will be used for years to come.

After a 20-year career at the vanguard of interactive design, 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. She can be found online at juliebeeler.com.