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Community Arts Programming

2023

• All You Can Zine, In-Person Guest Lecture for Creative Writing Undergraduates, Bowling Green State University, Ohio

• Draw & Dine Dumplings, Lead Facilitator, FOLD Festival, Rose Theatre, Brampton, ON

• Zines 101 Workshop Series, Lead Facilitator, Brampton Public Library, Brampton, ON

• Recipes for Connection: Food Zine Workshop, Lead Facilitator, Living Hyphen, Toronto, ON

• Paper Cut Foods for Asian Heritage Month, Lead Facilitator, Sir Winston Churchill Public School, Brampton, ON

2022

• Beyond the Plate Walking Tours, Lead Guide, Brampton Arts Organization, Brampton, ON

• Paint Your Produce Workshop, Lead Facilitator, Brampton Arts Organization, Brampton, ON

• All You Can Zine, Virtual Guest Lecture for Creative Writing Undergraduates, Bowling Green State University, Ohio

• Yue Moon III: Tiger With Wings, Co-facilitator, STEPS Public Art and Chinatown BIA, Toronto, ON

2021

• All You Can Zine, Virtual Guest Lecture for Creative Writing Undergraduates, Bowling Green State University, Ohio

• Harvest Garden: Artist Talk by Meegan Lim, SEAQueens Collective, Virtual

• Intro to Illustration: From Ideation to Execution, Virtual Workshop for EDGE Youth Art Show, Arts Etobicoke, Toronto, ON

• Yue Moon: Animated Light Workshops, Artist Mentee for Winnie Truong, STEPS Public Art and Chinatown BIA, Toronto, ON

• Yue Moon II Workshops, Artist Mentee for Paddy Leung, STEPS Public Art and Chinatown BIA, Toronto, ON

2020

• Yue Moon, Emerging Artist Facilitator, STEPS Public Art and Chinatown BIA, Toronto, ON

Solo Public Art, Exhibitions & Shows

2023

• “Mapping Memories”, My Neighbourhood Mural for Century Gardens, City of Brampton, Brampton, ON.

2022

• “Discovering Anne’s Story” and “Lights, Camera, Anne!”, The Anne and Maud Murals for the City of Pickering, Culture and Community Programming Team, Pickering Public Library and Pickering Museum Library, Pickering, ON.

2021

• Beyond the Plate, Brampton Window Activation Pilot Project, STEPS Public Art, ACCIDA Brampton, City of Brampton, ON

Group Public Art, Exhibitions & Shows

2024

• Daniels Block 2 Mural, Fuelled by Coffee Collective, STEPS Public Art & Daniels Corp, Brampton, ON (forthcoming)

2022

• Love Park Bell Boxes, Fuelled by Coffee Collective, Waterfront BIA, Toronto, ON

• Food and the City with Asian Arts & Culture Trust, Toronto, ON

• Systems of Love, PIXEL: Summer of Love Digital Screen Exhibition, Brampton, ON

• Yue Moon III: Tiger With Wings, Artist Mentee for Paddy Leung, STEPS Public Art and Chinatown BIA, Toronto, ON

2021

• META Arts Festival, Peel Region, ON

• Toronto Outdoor Art Fair 60, Toronto, ON

• OCADU Virtual GradEx 2021, OCAD University, Toronto, ON

• OCADU Virtual Major Works 2021, OCAD University, Toronto, ON

• Yue Moon: Animated Light led by Winnie Truong, Artist Mentee, STEPS Public Art and Chinatown BIA, Toronto, ON

• Yue Moon II led by Paddy Leung, Artist Mentee, STEPS Public Art and Chinatown BIA, Toronto, ON

2020

• Quarantine Qapsule, Myseum of Toronto

• VR Tea Base Market, Toronto, ON

• Exhibitor at Virtual Canzine

• Art Is Impact: Auction for Mental Health, Toronto, ON

2019

• “Exuberant”, Women’s Art Association of Canada, Toronto, ON

• Apathy is Boring Arts Showcase, KMAF, Toronto, ON

• Recess Night Market, Toronto, ON

• Jacki Lang Design Gallery, Stackt Market, Toronto, ON

Selected Publications and Press

2022

• Broken Pencil Mag, “Food zinesters hunger for more taste in writing”

• Femme Art Review, “Reconnecting through Recipes: Reflections with Meegan Lim”

• Eater, “The Ephemeral Appeal of Indie Food Zines”

• Queering Nutrition and Dietetics: LGBTQ+ Reflections on Food Through Art, LGBTQ+ Reflections on Food Through Art, Edited By Phillip Joy, Megan Aston

• Arts Help Editorial, “Toronto Chinatown Exhibit 'Yue Moon Illuminates Culture and Community”

• Interview with Toronto Chinatown BIA, Yue Moon 2022, Toronto, ON

• Urbanized / Daily Hive, “This lantern exhibit in Toronto will brighten your Lunar New Year”

• AGO Insider, Culture in the City - Yue Moon 完滿: Tiger With Wings 如虎添翼

• CBC Toronto, “Asian communities to celebrate Year of the Tiger with artwork, decorations, events in Toronto”

2021

• Brampton Guardian / The Star, “WHAT’S GOING ON HERE? Vibrant murals cover downtown Brampton storefronts”

• City of Brampton, “New public art pilot projects coming to Downtown Brampton”

• Amnesty Canada, The Matchstick, Issue 001 “Don’t Bite the Hand that Feeds You”

• Arts & Science Review “Leftovers: The Resurgence of Xenophobia in Chinese Cuisine”

• Broken Pencil Mag “Family, impulse and upheaval in ‘Just One Itch’”

• OCAD U Illustration Catalog, Toronto, ON

• Mélange Vol. 3, Toronto Youth Food Policy Council, Toronto, ON

• Interview with Toronto Chinatown BIA, Yue Moon 2021, Toronto, ON

2020

• Fashion Magazine “9 Canadian Art Exhibits You Can Visit Virtually Right From Home”

• Bay Street Bull “5 Artists Reflect on the Asian-Canadian Experience During the Pandemic”

• Broken Pencil Mag “Meegan Estelle Lim confronts a problematic binary in ‘MSG: The Craving for Cultural Embrace”
  

Achievements and Awards

• Best Political Zine, Harvest Garden, Broken Pencil Zine Awards, 2021

• 401 Richmond Career Launcher, OCAD U (2021)

• Toronto Outdoor Art Fair Career Launcher, OCAD U (2021)

• Above Ground Arts Scholarship (2020)

• Ada Slaight Scholarship (2017)

• Lifetouch Photography Award (2017)

Education

• OCAD University, BDes Illustration & Entrepreneurship/Social Innovation Minor (2017-2021)