Mushroom City Art Festival
October 25th, 2025
Carrie Murray Nature Center
1901 Ridgetop, Gwynn Oak 21207
About The Mushroom City Art Festival
Join us for Mushroom City Art Festival! The festival was first hosted in 2013 and has been held at Gwynns Falls Leakin Park since 2015!!
$25- no one turned away for lack of funds! Children 12 and under for free!
Schedule
- 1pm Opening Circle with Harmony Works
- Carrie Murray Nature Classroom – Talks
- 2 pm Michael Weese – The Art of Extraction
- 3 pm William Padilla Brown – Truffles or Cordyceps
- 4 pm Neşe Devenot –
- 5 pm Just Knaub – Functional Foods: Gourmet Mushrooms in Your Body
Workshops
- 2pm Stamp carving with Blu
- 2:30 – 3:30pm Soil remediation with Baltispore
- 3pm Yoga with Naadiya Hutchinson
- 4pm Shiitake log inoculation with Dylan Moran
- 2-4pm Harmony Works sound bath
Music by the Fire
- 2 Sahffi
- 3 Josie Baltimore
- 4 Marian McLaughlin
- 5 Dave Heumann & Adam Fisher (woods behind the fire circle)
Forays (leaving from fire circle)
- 1:30 Sam Eff
- 2:30 Holly Burke (plants)
- 3:30 Ashley ML
- 4:30 Sam Eff
Crankie Performances:
- Grandmother Mycelium by Foxfire
- Baba Yaga by Martha Simons
- Mushroom crankie & music performance with Canopy
- Children’s Art making Activities with the Carrie Murray Nature Center
- 1-6:30 Family Craft Table – air dry clay & large paper mache mushrooms
Artists and Vendors:
Dirt Vulture
Close Call Studios
Freedom Pallette
Mushroomworks
The Rural Mushroom
Mushroomlife
Mycosymbiotics
Taylor Made Pretty Things
Cosmic Silkworm Designs
Food Vendors:
Foraged
Maat Kitchen
Mr. Truff
Get inspired by this mysterious mycelial life form
Workshops
Learn about how mushrooms can help the health of people and the planet, Take a hands on workshop on how to grow mushrooms, or explore their magical properties.
Art Exhibits
Enjoy multi-media installations and exhibits encompassing the multitude of mushroom possibilities. Using the mushroom as inspiration, Local Artists depict a variety of themes using all painting, performance, and more!
