Making With Mycelium

4160 Whiteside Street,Los Angeles CA 90063

13 May, 2023

Description

Did you know you know you can grow mushrooms into flower pots? Sam and Martin will be presenting a beginner workshop on how to start your journey working with mushrooms and their ability to grow mycelium into solid objects. They will guide you through their respective approaches to working outside of a lab that you can do in you your own home. You will leave the workshop with a basic understanding how to take your first steps into making your own mycelium work. http://www.samkshoemaker.com/ https://www.martinalexanderstudio.com/ Agenda: Hour 1 -Class begins, hellos -Martin presents slides introducing mycelium, mycomaterials, applications of mycomaterials -Martin shares recent/ongoing work and relationship to mycomaterials -Sam shares recent/ongoing work and relationship to mycomaterials Hour 2 -Sam leads a demo on making a mycomaterial planter using stockinette. -Martin leads a demo on utilizing spent substrate -Throughout our demos we explain how we would prepare our environment, incubate our materials, and then dry our materials Hour 3 -Sam presents on bulk material processing and sterilization using his own slides -Sam follows with spawn, agar, and a preview of DIY lab strategies to further this work on a small or commercial budget -Martin and Sam conclude, Open the floor to questions