Britt Bunyard in the Trailer for Look Down Not Up
Free and Open to the Public!
Location: Madeline Island Museum
Summary: Fungi are weird, fungi are cool, and fungi are beautiful. But how much do we really know about them?
For starters, they do much more than just rot things. They control pretty much all life on our planet and are everywhere.
Britt Bunyard’s lecture will present fascinating stories and beautiful photos of amazing fungi featured in his latest book.
Discover the crazy, wonderful life that goes on all around us, mostly hidden in plain sight.
For general audiences. No knowledge of mycology is required, and all levels of mycological questions are encouraged.
Speaker: Britt Bunyard, PhD, is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal Fungi. He has collected fungi and lectured throughout North and South America, Europe and Asia. He was the subject of an ***award-winning documentary film “Look Down Not Up”.
Britt has worked academically as a mycologist his entire career, teaching a number of university courses and writing scientifically for many research journals and popular science magazines. He has served as an editor for mycological and entomological research journals, and mushroom guide books.
A popular evangelizer on all things fungal, Britt has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, PBS’s NOVA and Wisconsin Foodie television programs; and interviewed or quoted in Discover magazine, The Atlantic, Vox, Vogue, Forbes, Saveur, Eating Well, Hobby Farm, Women’s World, and other magazines and newspapers. Britt serves as Executive Director of the Telluride Mushroom Festival.
He has authored several books, including Amanitas of North America (2020; The FUNGI Press), The Beginner’s Guide to Mushrooms (2021; Quarry Books), Mushrooms and Macrofungi of Ohio and Midwestern States (2012; The Ohio State University Press), and most recently The Lives of Fungi (2022; Princeton University Press).
In 2021 Britt was awarded the Gary Lincoff Award “For Contributions to Amateur Mycology,” by the North American Mycological Association—NAMA’s most prestigious honor for American mycologists.
*** Look Down Not Up follows an interdisciplinary team of mycologists, mountaineers, journalists, and adventurers into Nepal’s Sagarmatha (Everest) National Park to document rare and undiscovered mushrooms and, in the process, to reflect on culture, climate, and the resilience of the human spirit.
