Foo Wei Meng (Wei Meng)
George Town
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Foo Wei Meng was formerly trained in graphic design and visual arts with an MFA degree in photography. Since completing her formal education, she has developed her capacity as an educator, facilitator, programmer, coordinator, manager and trainer through various community-based work in her quest for a better understanding of the larger meaning and purpose of art and culture in society. The types of engaged communities include schools, residents, vendors, traditional arts and cultural practitioners and migrant workers.
As a believer in life-long learning through exchange and sharing, she contributes towards nurturing the younger generation of community arts practitioners in the Asian region through co-facilitating capacity-building programme organised by MCH, and also assessing and giving advice to community arts funding applicants and recipients for the Cultural Development Fund of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government from 2020 to 2024.
All these experiences have widened her views and deepened her understanding of what art-making and culture-making can do to transform positive change in the way humans perceive and engage with the world. Although she still creates personal photography works as an introspective exercise, she spends most of her energy and time exploring more effective and innovative approaches to managing, designing, facilitating, and evaluating community-based arts and culture initiatives.
As a believer in life-long learning through exchange and sharing, she contributes towards nurturing the younger generation of community arts practitioners in the Asian region through co-facilitating capacity-building programme organised by MCH, and also assessing and giving advice to community arts funding applicants and recipients for the Cultural Development Fund of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government from 2020 to 2024.
All these experiences have widened her views and deepened her understanding of what art-making and culture-making can do to transform positive change in the way humans perceive and engage with the world. Although she still creates personal photography works as an introspective exercise, she spends most of her energy and time exploring more effective and innovative approaches to managing, designing, facilitating, and evaluating community-based arts and culture initiatives.