In–Person Workshop Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, Classroom B (Third Floor) Instructor: Kathy Liu, PhD candidate | Aizenberg Biomineralization & Biomimetics Lab Price: $30 members / $35 nonmembers When you look around nature, you can glimpse brilliant rainbows everywhere—on the surface of a bubble, on butterfly wings, after a rainy day, or through a…
Holographic Chocolate: The Secrets of Structural Color
In–Person Workshop Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, Classroom B (Third Floor) Instructor: Kathy Liu, PhD candidate | Aizenberg Biomineralization & Biomimetics Lab Price: $30 members / $35 nonmembers In nature, brilliant colors appear in myriad places—along the surface of a bubble, on butterfly wings, after a rainy day, or through a windowpane. Remarkably, many…
Painting with Mushrooms
In–Person Workshop Instructor: Artist and Educator Rachel Mirus Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, Classroom B (Third Floor) Price: $40 members / $50 nonmembers You may have foraged, grown, or eaten mushrooms, but have you painted with them? Many mushrooms and lichens can be used to make inks in a spectrum of earthy colors. Rachel…
The Art and Science of Mushrooms
In–Person Workshop Instructors: Artist and Educator Erica Beade and Rachel Swenie, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, Classroom B (Third Floor) Price: $50 members / $60 nonmembers Learn about the science of mushrooms through observations of fungi, then try your hand at capturing…
All Creatures Small–A Papier Mâché Workshop
In–Person Workshop Instructor: Artist Gail Boyajian Location: Harvard Museum of Natural History, Classroom B (Third Floor) Price: $175 members / $220 nonmembers Over five half-days, artist Gail Boyajian will guide you from start to finish as you build and paint a papier mâché animal using everyday materials. Inspired by the HMNH museum galleries, students will…