Mushroom City Art Festival 2026!

Join us this year for forays, talks, children's art making activities, crankies by the fire, shiitake tea, music, workshops and more!!
About this Event

Fire Circle

12 pm Opening Ceremony with Nicholas Tomaskovic-Devey (Harmony Works)
1 pm - Geraldine
2 pm - Randi Withani
3:30 pm - Sahffi
4:30 pm - Gnome Hatz (feat. Miles Gannett, Dave Heumann, David Bergander, Sean P. Finn, Shelly Work, and Christopher Brown)Crankie Performances:6:30 pm by The Firefly Crankie Collective,

Gazebo

1 pm Harmony Works
3 pm Sasha Miles
4 pm Loam [Mike Drakos]

Workshop
2-4pm Shiitake log inoculation with Dylan Moran

Forays (leaving from fire circle)

1pm Sam Eff (The Mushroomworks)
2pm Ashley ML (The Rural Mushroom)
3pm Daniel Foshee (Mushroom Nerds)
4pm Jared Urchek
5pm Bodhi Vasilopoulos (Nature’s Love & Wisdom)

Talks in the Lodge:

2pm Charlotte James - Mycelium, Memory, and Liberation
3pm Nese Devenot – Carlos Castaneda & the Power of Psychedelic Stories
4pm Justin Knaub – Wild Sourced Scents and How to Capture Them, What Makes Your Mushrooms “Medicinal” -A Deep Dive into Bioactive Compounds and Dosing Idealogy
5 pm Forager's Folly - Native Mushrooms of Baltimore

Children’s Art Making Activities:1-6:30 Family Craft Table – air dry clay & large paper mache mushrooms

Artists and Vendors:

Mushroom Nerds
MMM Labs
Forager's Folly
Brain Dead Boob Art
Mel Ou Art
Life Art Fungi
KnewBein Collection
Ren's Crochet Way
Tullula Studio
Townsendcreekart
The Rural Mushroom
Kuzya Kreations
Alan Parker
Mother Bishop Jewelry
JG Studio
Suuuneater
Summer Blake

Food Vendors:
Maat Kitchen
Mr. Truff
Summercraft Kombuchamore

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.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.