Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez is the founder and director of the Green Art Lab Alliance; a network comprising eighty art organizations across Europe, the Americas, the Caribbean and Asia. The mission of the alliance is to foster relationships that contribute to social and environmental justice, akin to the interconnected nature of mycelium. She founded and directed the Nature Research Department at the Jan van Eyck Academie (Netherlands, 2017), the Van Eyck Food Lab (2018), and the Future Materials Bank (2020); a crowd-sourced database of sustainable materials for artists, designers and architects. She organised countless Reading Groups, Food Art Film Festivals and has been curator-in-residence, as well as writer-in-residence, in many art institutions worldwide. Her debut book, Let’s Become Fungal! Mycelium Teachings and the Arts, shares twelve teachings of the world of fungi. It was published by Valiz and is being translated into various languages. She is currently working on a book about Interspecies Wellness. She is based on a farm in Veracruz, Mexico.
