I am offering an adult workshop at the Decordova Sculpture Park & Museum this May--
please come!
Art, Science, and Nature: Mushrooms and Microbes
Explore science-based artworks using the mysterious world of New England wild and culinary mushrooms. Instructor will guide students to find their way through the wonderland of shapes as they explore scraping techniques in watercolor and scratchboard. Students will: produce a mushroom spore print to create an artwork that shows the genomes of soil creatures; explore soil science and geology as they make their own paints from deCordova mud; sample unusual paints ground from turquoise and lapis lazuli (provided by the instructor); and create a drawing of tree roots intersecting deCordova’s sculptures, threading it through with real mycorrhizal fungal “branches”.
