GUEST SPEAKER: Denis Benjamin
WHEN: Friday, September 22, 2023, Doors at 7 p.m., Talk at 7:30 P.M. CST
In-Person Meeting Location: Uptown Marq at 3320 Harmon Avenue, Park on street or in the Retail and Leasing garage on Duncan Ln. Enter at parking garage. Meet at the “Club House” on the SECOND FLOOR.
Online Streaming: via YouTube
Cost: $0+ Sliding Scale Donation
(Free with Registration. Space is limited and your donation supports the mycologist.)
ABOUT THE TALK
Join mycologist and artist Denis Benjamin for a talk on the sociology of mushroom poisonings. The author of Mushrooms: Poisons and Panaceas will help you understand who gets poisoned and why? ☠️
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Denis Benjamin, born in South Africa, emigrated to the USA in 1970. He practiced pediatric pathology at the children’s hospital in Seattle and later at Cook Children’s in Fort Worth. He became a hiker and mushroom enthusiast, spending much of his leisure time on the eastern slopes of the Cascades. Now retired from medical practice he devotes his energy to natural history and documenting his travels, flowers and mushrooms with photography and watercolors. The latter was inspired by a workshop with the noted Russian botanical artist (Alexander - Sasha - Viazmensky). The delicate transparency and vibrancy of watercolors proved to be the ideal medium to capture the images of nature. He attended botanical illustration at the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle. He is author of Mushrooms: Poisons and Panaceas (1995, WH Freeman and Co. NY, NY) and Musings of a Mushroom Hunter: A Natural History of Foraging (2019 Tembe Press, Fort Worth, TX). He now lives in Fort Worth and is a Research Associate at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. He is a member of the Southwestern Watercolor Society (Dallas), the American Society of Botanical Artists and a Signature member of the Society of Watercolor Artists (Fort Worth). Juried shows include Society for Watercolor Artists, Trinity Arts Guild, Fort Worth Botanical Gardens, Southwestern Watercolor Society, Irving Arts Association, CampFire TX.