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A World of Mushrooms
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
If you have mushrooms you've found at home or on the foray, you may bring them to the spore printing table to try out the process.
Prints take some time to develop (hours), so stop by early or plan to pick up your print the next day. |
Stop by the Spore Printing Table and try your hand at making a print.
Mario Abreu will show you steps for taking a successful print and tell you more about the mushroom structures that you'll interact with in the process. You'll learn more about spores and have a cool print to take home.
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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 crafts with the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens!
🪄🍄 Kids and families of all ages are invited to join us for a day of crafting and connection. We will have fun activities in-store, including magic nature wand-making, clay sculpting, and fun fungi coloring pages.
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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Mushrooms for Color with Felicia Rice and the International Mushroom Dye Institute (IMDI)
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Felicia Rice and the International Mushroom Dye Institute (IMDI) host an exhibit featuring fiber arts and textiles of all kinds, prints, paintings, handmade paper, sculpture, and experiments using mushroom and lichens for dyes, pigments, and pulp.
Miriam C. Rice's book, "Mushrooms for Dyes, Paper, Pigments & Myco-Stix™, her definitive work on her pioneering research will be for sale at the exhibit. 
Felicia Rice is Miriam Rice’s youngest daughter. She is a book artist, arts educator, and the sole proprietor of Moving Parts Press in Mendocino. After her mother’s death in 2010, Felicia became active with the IMDI. She has been the director of the IMDI, when Dorothy Beebee, Miriam's longtime collaborator, stepped down in 2011.
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The Larry Spring Museum's Redwood Time: Sewing & Weaving with Mushroom and other Natural-dyed Threads—with Anne Beck, Matilda Hernandez-Miyares, and Shoshanna Zambryski-Stachel
Redwood Time, a community collaboration initiated by The Larry Spring Museum in Fort Bragg, returns to the festival, featuring our community-made fabric model of Fort Bragg’s iconic redwood round. We invite you to sit at the table with us to sew and weave with fibres dyed with mushroom dyes and other color gleaned from the Redwood Forest. This is a community endeavor, and we hope you all will join us! Your creative contributions will be on display at the Redwood Time Exhibition at the mill site in April 2027.
This is open to people of all ages and skill levels; if you can’t sew or weave, we will teach you the basics.
This is open to people of all ages and skill levels; if you can’t sew or weave, we will teach you the basics.
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Redwood Time is a community collaboration initiated by The Larry Spring Museum in Fort Bragg.
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 and a fabric forest within which the fabric round will live.
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 and a fabric forest within which the fabric round will live.
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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:
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