Community Workshops

Through playful, experimental, and hands-on experiences with fungi, we invite New Yorkers to deepen their connection with nature and learn from fungi, our greatest teachers, to build, nourish, restore, and heal.

Curiouseed @ Swale House

As part of Governors Island 2019 public season Intelligent Fungi was a three month exhibition and workshop series to celebrate the fungal wisdoms and a platform for fellow soil builders, educators, artists, citizen scientists, mycologists to collaborate, experiment, and tell the stories about human fungi symbioses. 

Visitors were invited to take a self guided tour to examen mushroom specimen, watch mycelium running, take a mycorrhizal meditation and appreciate fungal arts. Throughout August and September, Curiouseed held weekly workshops and invited the public to get hands-on with water restoration, experiment with mushroom paper making, and survey the mushroom species in NYC neighborhoods with local mycologists, artists, citizen scientist and interdisciplinary educators.

This program was gratefully housed at Swale House on Governors Island, part of artist Mary Mattingly’s food justice initiative.