The Art and Science of Mushrooms

Date: 

Saturday, October 26, 2019, 9:30am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street

Instructors: Erica Beade and Harvard graduate student James Mitchell

Learn about the science of mushrooms through observations of local fungi, and then try your hand at capturing different mushroom types. Artist and educator, Erica Beade, will introduce techniques for achieving more accuracy, volume, and texture in drawings, while Harvard scientist James Mitchell will provide an overview of local mushrooms based on specimens in hand.

$55 members/$60 nonmembers

Advance registration required.