Dip in with ecological artist Elissa Callen and textile artist Julie Beeler, creator of the Mushroom Color Atlas, who are deriving natural pigments from mushrooms as an alternative to synthetic colors and dyes. Callen’s locally-sourced natural materials ground her work in the time and place where it is created.

Equal parts art book and field guide, Beeler’s Mushroom Color Atlas contains 825 colors derived from 40 mushrooms. Dyes derived from plants and fungi give artists a stunning new palette and personal connection to their materials. Their biochemical experimentation to coax color from mushrooms makes their work as much science as it is art.