Felicia Rice’s praxis extends from traditional book making techniques all the way to cyber-art. In her book structures word and image meet and merge.
02/07/2025
IFFS2025, the International Fungi & Fibre Symposium
January 12-19, 2024
Teror, Gran Canaria, Spain
In 1999, IMDI board members, Miriam Rice and Dorothy Beebee helped found the International Fungi & Fibre Federation, a loose network of curious foragers working and playing together to explore the world of mushroom dyes and pigments.
In January, the 20th International Fungi & Fibre Symposium was held in the Canary Islands of Spain at a beautiful convent. There were 87 participants from 19 countries. Host Palma Christian of Spain organized everything and, with her crew of volunteers, facilitated the show, day after day, for a full week. !Gracias por todo!
All week dye baths were going full bore up on crest of the hill beyond the convent. Volunteers had gathered and dried enormous quantities of six mushrooms before the symposium to ensure there would be enough to work with. It was a herculean feat given how dry the winter had been.
On Thursday, Julie Beeler, author of the beautiful new book,"The Mushroom Color Atlas" , taught a incredible workshop on how to make lake pigments and generously donated the leftover pigments to Felicia's class the next day.
On Friday, Rice taught a workshop on making artists' books using inks made with mushroom pigments. She had printed the title page in Mendocino, which was also used as a poster for the symposium.
