Julie Beeler

Julie Beeler is an acclaimed designer, artist, and educator with a deep love and curiosity for the natural world. She created the Mushroom Color Atlas to benefit what she values most: education, creativity, collaboration, community, and the environment. Her book The Mushroom Color Atlas, recently published by Chronicle Books, is a gorgeous primer on the universe of colors lurking inside fungi. Equal parts field guide, dye-making workshop, and art book, it is a timeless reference that will be used for years to come. Her work has been featured by The New York Times, Popular Science, The Smithsonian Institution and The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, among others. For seven years, she was on the faculty of PNCA and OCAC in Portland. After a 20-year career at the vanguard of interactive design, Beeler founded Bloom & Dye, a natural dye studio and farm in the Pacific Northwest ideally situated for foraging mushrooms and growing fresh-cut color.