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Mushroom Display Table
Check out the awesome diversity of color, shape, smell, size and texture of mushrooms, both wild and cultivated. Books and other reference materials are available to help you learn more about the amazing world of mushrooms.
Spore Printing Table
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Stop by the Spore Printing Table and try your hand at making a print. You'll learn more about spores and have a cool print to take home.
Prints take some time to develop (hours), so stop by early or plan to pick up your print the next day.
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Mushroom Identification Table
Check out the Mushroom ID Table for a display of fresh, wild mushrooms collected each morning during the festival forays. Test your identification skills and see if you can put a name to each mushroom.
Explore the magic of nature through coloring and clay sculpting with the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
Join us for a meaningful day of crafting and connection with nature! We will be working with air dry clay to create magical sets of forest friends and offering forest and mushroom-themed coloring activities.
We'll also be selling some mushroom-themed items, so come check it out!
We'll also be selling some mushroom-themed items, so come check it out!
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Each year, more than 100,000 people experience the wonder of nature at Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens in all its seasons. This nonprofit botanical escape is a place to play, to contemplate, to learn, to relax, to touch, to smell, to feel, to enjoy, to be inspired, and to experience the simple joy and beauty of life.
Take a guided tour of the MCBG Mushroom Collection! The Gardens is home to more than 160 species of wild mushrooms during fall and winter. They also offer mushroom identification workshops with local naturalist and mycologist (and MCMC Club Member), Mario Abreu. |
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Mushroom Paper Making with Liz Vermillion
Paper from mushrooms?! Not only is it possible, but the results are gorgeous. Come learn the craft from Liz Vermillion during this interactive demonstration. Liz will take you through the steps needed to turn polypores to paper.
Liz Vermillion makes soaps, tinctures, salves, art and more. You can find her creations at the festival and on her website, Liz's Cottage.
Redwood Time Sewing Circle--Embroidery with Mushroom-dyed Threads—with Anne Beck & The Larry Spring Museum's Redwood Time project
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Redwood Time returns for a second year on Sunday, November 16th, featuring our community-made fabric model of Fort Bragg’s iconic redwood round. Follow our progress on our new community-created timelines and join us in completing the sewing of the tree rings using mushroom-dyed threads. We invite you to connect in silence, in conversation, and through making as we explore alternative notions of time, timelines, and our relationships to the land and to one another.
This is open to people of all ages and skill levels; if you can’t sew, we will teach you some basic stitches. |
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Redwood Time is a community collaboration initiated by The Larry Spring Museum in Fort Bragg, and artist Anne Beck.
Redwood Time is a communal re-envisioning of the monumental Redwood Round on Fort Bragg’s Main Street. Cut from the ‘largest Redwood tree known to have grown in Mendocino County’, the round functions as roadside spectacle, as tourist attraction, and as a monument to the timber industry and the (un)settler town that grew around it. What do we see when we look at the round today? What do we hope to see tomorrow? In the spirit of exploring these questions, we have created a 1:1 scale fabric maquette of the 18’ wide Redwood Round. Through unfolding events considering a multiplicity of histories, species, natural philosophies, and concepts of time itself, we will adorn this round with a new timeline. This is a community endeavor, and we hope you all will join us! |
Anne Beck is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and landlooker living in the hills of Northern California. Her creative practice arises from a deep curiosity and wonder for worlds inside and out. She sees art-making as a contemplative tool for metabolizing history and experience, expanding awareness and understanding, and for opening new channels of being. Her work takes form as paintings, textiles, artist books, collaborative installations, and social practice inquiries - all with a keen interest in material research and storytelling.
Beck’s studio and collaborative work has been exhibited internationally, most recently at the Biblioteca de Mexico in Mexico City, Ex-convento San Juan Bautista in Tiripetio, Mexico, and Dream Farm Commons in Oakland, California. Her artist books are held in special collections including Yale, Columbia, UCLA, and School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. |
The Larry Spring Museum celebrates Larry Spring’s DIY Spirit of Amateur Inquiry as a means to open up his collection to new creative possibilities. We imagine the Museum as a constellation of art and science wonders where community engages through collaborative action.
The Museum is committed to building a more creative and inter-connected Downtown Fort Bragg through the following initiatives:
- Sustaining Larry Spring’s collection as a unique piece of Fort Bragg’s history.
- Opening up the collection to new possibilities by engaging with an inclusive range of artists, makers and other creative beings.
- Collaborating with local, regional and national cultural institutions to create dynamic accessible programming.
