IMDI Gallery: MUSHROOMS | COLOR | ART AND CRAFT

Artists, crafters, makers! Families, children, students!
Submit a photo of your work — and connect!

About the Gallery 

The IMDI Gallery exhibits artworks and craft from around the world that use mushroom dye fungi and their pigments. 

  • Discover what innovators are creating around the globe!
  • Learn which mushrooms people are experimenting with!
  • Connect with other artists and makers!

What to Submit 

Anyone can submit these items:

  • Textiles (crochet, felting, knitting, weaving…)
  • Art, both 2D and 3D (collage, drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture…)
  • Mushroom papers
  • Other experiments using mushroom pigments

How to Submit

  1. Create an account.
  2. Submit a small donation of $20 to add up to 3 items to the gallery.
  3. Upload a photo of your item.
  4. Fill in the information fields.

Your Donation

Your donation of $20 helps keep Miriam C. Rice’s book Mushrooms for Dyes, Paper, Pigments and Myco-Stix™ in print and supports travel grants to the IFFF Symposium held every two years.

Miriam C. Rice (1918–2010) was an artist and researcher who unlocked the full spectrum of color from mushrooms. She believed art was critical to our lives as individuals and to the very fabric of our communities. We are building this online gallery to honor the values that inspired Miriam’s life’s work.

Contribute your items to the Gallery with a donation!

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Artist: Liza Johansson
Medium: Boiled pigment from different fungi
Mushrooms: Many species, including various Cortinarius, Bolitopsis grisea, Phaeolus schweinitzii, Tapinella atrotomentosa and Hapalopilus rutilans
Colors: cream/beige, green, grey, lavender, orange, pink, purple, red, yellow
Size: about 30 x30 cm wide and 75 cm high
Year: 2012

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Artist: Liza Johansson
Medium: Paper from mushroom
Mushrooms: Polypores, some mixed with fungi for pigment. Some paper are made from residual fungi from a dyebath.
Colors: green, red
Size: 20 x 20 cm
Year: 2012

Cosmic Wheel.

Artist: Kristina Zimbakova
Medium: Fungi, lichens, soft pastel and acrylic on handmade fungal paper. Hymenochaete rubiginosa, Stecherinum fimbriatum, Junghuhnia nitida, Astraeus macedonicus, Peniophora incarnata, Terana caerulea, Trametes cinnabarina and 6 unidentified species.
Mushrooms: Numerous lignicolous fungi.
Colors: blue, brown, yellow
Size: 37 x 34 cm
Year: 2021.

Summit of Storms

Artist: Kristina Zimbakova
Medium: Fungi (Pisolithus arrhizus, Antrodia malicola, Trichaptum biforme, Xenasmatella vaga and 1 unidentified species) and lichens (Lasallia pustulata, Usnea sp.) on handmade fungal paper from numerous wood-inhabiting fungi.
Mushrooms: Numerous lignicolous fungi.
Colors: brown, yellow
Size: 39 x 37 cm
Year: 2023

The One-Eyed

Artist: Kristina Zimbakova
Medium: Ink, acrylic and fungi (Coltricia cinnamomea, Fuscoporia sp., Steccherinum ochraceum, Trichaptum biforme & 2 unidentified species) on handmade fungal paper from a range of wood-inhabiting fungi. Framed with glass.
Mushrooms: Numerous lignicolous fungi.
Colors: brown, lavender, purple
Size: 36 x 38 cm (without the matt and frame).
Year: 2024

Birch Trees

Artist: Kirsten Fink
Medium: Mushroom-dyed wool
Mushrooms: Various
Colors: black, blue, brown, cream/beige, green, grey, orange, red, yellow
Size: 15 x 19 cm
Year: 2024

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