Mushroom City Art Festival 2025 Schedule

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!!

$10 – no one turned away for lack of funds!

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 – 3:30 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
Food Vendors:
Foraged
Maat Kitchen
Mycosymbiotics

Parking

Location:
The Carrie Murray Nature Center is located at 1901 Ridgetop Rd, Baltimore, MD 21207,
south of Windsor Mill Road. This event will be held at the Fire Circle area at the end of Ridgetop
Road, just past the Nature Center. The location is marked with a star on the map below.
Parking:
Consider carpooling, if possible! Parking is limited, and we want to be mindful of other visitors to
the Nature Center. Please drive slowly and observe all posted signs. Parking options include:
1. The Ridgetop Road parking lot can accommodate around 10 vehicles. (Indicated with the
number 1 on the map below.)
2. The Bus turnaround at Hutton Ave/Ridgetop Rd. Please park only in the area marked in
yellow on the map below (along the edge of the bus circle).
3. Parking lot at Eagle Drive (from here, we recommend walking south away from Windsor Mill Road and crossing ver to Ridgetop Road along the Granite Pipeline – in red on the map below.)