Invocation of the Mushroom People
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Date & Time
Sat, Mar 25 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Address (map)
214 Helena Ave
INVOCATION OF THE MUSHROOM PEOPLE: Gallery Talk + Guided Meditation + Dinner
With the Alchemistress, Lindsey Ross & Christopher “Doc” Kelley PhD
Saturday, March 25th, 2023
6-9pm
Join us for a magickal evening of mushroom inspired photography, meditation, and cuisine at the Lindsey Ross Studio in the Funk Zone, Santa Barbara.
“The Mushroom People” is a new exhibition of surreal, large format photography by Lindsey Ross, The Alchemistress.
Attendees will enjoy an intimate gallery talk with the Alchemistress, guided “mycelium meditation” led by Doc Kelley of Psychedelic Sangha & Pacifica Graduate Institute, as well as a delicious mushroom inspired meal by Melissa Bishop with wine from Sandhi Wines.
The mushrooms are calling you!
$65 per ticket.Space is limited. Book now at exploretock.com/the-alchemistress or email studio@the-alchemistress.com
Doc Kelley
Christopher “Doc” Kelley is co-founder and organizer of Psychedelic Sangha. He received a PhD in religion from Columbia University where he studied Indo-Tibetan Buddhism with Robert A. F. Thurman. He is a part-time associate professor in Religious Studies at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, the New School University. He is also currently teaching at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara.
Lindsey Ross
Lindsey Ross is a California-based artist who specializes in the 19th century process of wet-plate collodion. Ross started working in this process in 2011 and quickly realized it was the ideal format for her artistic practice. She continues to push against the constraints of the process both in terms of the scale of her images and the illusions she creates within them. Using her custom built 32x24in Chamonix View Camera, she creates some of the largest images of this kind in the world.
Ross has participated in several artist residencies including Telluride Mountain Film Festival, The Squire Foundation and the Budapest Art Factory. Her work has most recently been exhibited at Andrew Smith Gallery in Tucson, Penumbra Foundation in New York City, Telluride Arts HQ and Thomas VanDyke Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.
Everyday humans are bombarded with information that forms their perception of reality. These versions of reality are incomplete. They omit vast amounts of information, among many things, the fairies in the mushroom forest.
– Lindsey Ross
The mushroom people are real because archetypes are real and metaphors matter. If you don’t believe me, just go ask them yourself! They’ll tell you.
– Doc Kelley
