Description: As the Northeast mushroom season begins to feel the chill, join South Asian diasporic visual artist, Sneha Ganguly, at the Falaha Center for Spiritual Agriculture, for an intimate workshop exploring papermaking with mushrooms.

Sneha’s creative and spiritual practice work through the intersection of fine art and mycology.  She uses collage and painting, with wild foraged mushroom papers and pigments, to illustrate a modern mythology depicting fungal science, symbiotes, animisms, and teachings from the forest.  Alongside a demonstration covering mushroom-based paper-making materials and techniques, the workshop will weave together topics such as artmaking with mushrooms, foraging wild mushrooms, medicinal polypores, and the emergence of myco-materials. 

If weather permits, we will begin outside on the trail so please come prepared.  Warm up indoors with a cup of mushroom chai and light refreshments.  All participants will receive an original mushroom paper artwork as a gift.  

Sneha is co-founder of POC Fungi Community, a grassroots organization that aims to increase access and representation for BIPOC in mycology.  She is a Teaching Assistant for Indoor Speciality Mushroom Production with Cornell Small Farms.  She is also Community Outreach Coordinator for the New York Mycological Society.

Cost: $60 per person

Instructor: Sneha Ganguly

Group size: 6-person minimum; 10-person maximum