41st Annual Telluride Mushroom Festival

Linnea Gillman has been with the Telluride Mushroom Festival from the beginning. She has an MS in mycology from Virginia Tech, is retired from the USDA Forest Service where she worked on mycorrhizal fungi, and is a co-author of Wild Mushrooms of Telluride.

Art Goodtimes is an American poet, basketweaver and politician in Colorado ... a founder and driving force of the Mushroom Festival. Goodtimes was first elected to the San Miguel County Board of Commissioners in 1996 as a Democrat, switched to the Green Party of Colorado in 1998 and... Read More →

Ashley Smith, founder of Sage Advice Telluride, and former Program Director of the Telluride Academy, joins the Telluride Mushroom Festival management team as Festival Manager in 2019 to provide oversight and support to the many logistical objectives that come along with creating... Read More →

Britt Bunyard, PhD, is the founder, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief of the mycology journal FUNGI. Britt has worked academically (and played very amateurishly) as a mycologist his entire career, writing scientifically for many research journals, popular science magazines, and books... Read More →