Name: Hidden Figures in Mycology & Black and Brown: The New My(e)cologists with Maya Han
Start: 2026-08-14T15:15:00-0600
End: 2026-08-14T16:15:00-0600

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Welcome to the largest wild mushroom happening in North America, the 46th Annual Telluride Mushroom Festival! This program of the Telluride Institute, a 501c3 non-profit, offers a plethora of events ranging from foray and mushroom ID sessions, to hands-on demonstrations and lectures—all led by regionally, nationally, and internationally-known experts, (and we cannot forget the wide variety of social and cultural events offered, along with the famous Mushroom Parade!) there is plenty for everyone, every day.

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Hidden Figures in Mycology & Black and Brown: The New My(e)cologists with Maya Han

Friday August 14, 2026 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT

Sheridan Opera House @ 110 N Oak St, Telluride, CO 81435

Join Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, writer, and filmmaker, Maya Han, for an hour together showcasing the "Hidden Figures of Mycology" where we will share a screening of her film Black and Brown: The New My(e)cologists along with snippets from her New York Myco Film Fest and Q&A about this emerging movement in mycology.

Maya's works give visibility to hidden histories, with recent projects focused on the natural sciences, environmental justice, and ecofeminism. She is an awardee of the 2026 New York State Council on the Arts NYSCA Artist Grant and 2024 Puffin Environmental Arts Grant, and her work has been presented internationally at spaces including the Harlem Film Festival, New York NY; Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin; The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; and the Busan International Film Festival, South Korea.

Maya Han, Black and Brown: The New My(e)cologists 25 min.
Fungi are foundational to our planet, literally buttressing the entire earth through their extensive underground mycelial networks. Mycology, or the study of fungi, has traditionally been associated with (Northern) Europe where it is a recent discipline and one that has benefitted from, yet eclipsed or erased, Indigenous and African diasporic cultures’ long and rich histories with the fungal kingdom — histories which span millennia and embrace the scientific, culinary, medicinal, and shamanistic. This short documentary recenters the gaze back on Black relationships with nature via the fungal world. This world, unlike the green realm of plants that photosynthesize, is characterized by the brown — the rich, dark, loamy soil and umber-y tree bark in or on which many fungi dwell, to the brown melanin most mushrooms contain, as well as the colloquial term for common cap-and-stem LBMs, or “little brown mushrooms”.

Black and Brown: The New My(e)cologists spotlights, in intimate and poignant portraits, the exciting citizen science and eco-activism of three American women trailblazers of African and Caribbean heritage — Journei Bimwala, Maria Pinto, and Maren Fossi — who are restoring myco-cultural histories and changing the ways we access, study, and think about nature and fungi.

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Maya Han

Artist + Filmmaker + Cultural Programmer

Maya Han is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, writer, and filmmaker whose works give visibility to hidden histories, with recent projects focused on the natural sciences, environmental justice, and ecofeminism. She is an awardee of the 2026 New York State Council on the Arts... Read More →

Friday August 14, 2026 3:15pm - 4:15pm MDT
Sheridan Opera House

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