curriculum vitae (lite)
In depth workshop and teaching info HERE

★ education ★
2019 Bachelor of Design, Illustration -- OCAD University★ published works - zines & comics ★
2024 The Tallest Star in the Sky – Self-published, debuted at CAKE Chicago and Thought Bubble UK. Made with the 2023 CupCAKE aware and mentorship with Zach Clemente (Bulgilhan Press).
2023 Angel – Self-published, debuted at VanCAF
2021 Good Chicken / 良い鶏肉 – Self-published, Broken Pencil Zine Award – Fanzine Category
2020 Restaurant Diaries – Self-published, Broken Pencil Zine Award nom. Exhibited at Seeing Providence
Chinatown: a relational reconstruction.
2019 From Yesterday – Old Growth Press – LGBTQ+ & BIPOC Small Press★ shows, festivals, & fairs ★
2024 Thought Bubble UK, Harrogate Convention Centre, Harrogate, Yorkshire
Prairie Comics Festival, Millennium Library, Winnipeg, MB
CAKE Chicago, Zhou B. Art Centre, Chicago, IL, USA
VanCAF, Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver, BC
2023 VanCAF, Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver, BC
2019 Comic Studies Society Symposium, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON
Zine Dream 12, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON
Canzine, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON; Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON
2018 /edition Art Book Fair, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, ON
Hamilton Feminist Zine Fair, hosted by SACHA, Hamilton Public Library, Hamilton, ON
OCAD U Zine Fair, OCAD University Atrium, Toronto, ON
Canzine, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON★ workshops, panels, & programming ★
2021 My Monsters Hold Me Soft – zine reading and guest artist, hosted by Story Planet.
Wee Asian Arts Channel – all ages video zine making workshop for Reel Asian Film Festival.
2020 Comics Out Loud with Old Growth Press - disability centric comics reading presented by the Canada Comics Open Library, Online
2019 – Next Page: Comics and Zines Creating Change – featured panelist on a TCAF panel facilitated by Fiona Smyth at TCAF – Toronto Comic Arts Festival★ exhibitions, installation, & public art ★
(Current 2024-5) Year of the Dragon Zodiac Banner, Chinatown, Winnipeg, MB. Commissioned by Downtown BIZ and Winnipeg Chinese Community & Cultural Centre.
(Current 2024-9) Chinatown Neighbourhood Banner Project, Chinatown, Winnipeg, MB. Awarded by the Winnipeg Arts Council and Downtown BIZ.
2023 "Magic Fish" for Lights on the Exchange, Exchange District, Winnipeg, MB
2022 Seeing Providence Chinatown: a relational Reconstruction, curated by Jeffrey Yoo Warren, 95 Empire
St, Providence, RI, USA
2019 Bai Sun, Window Space at XPACE Toronto, ON

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i actually LOVE the internet and having fun with my friends online, but the progression of net neutrality, the targeting of sex workers under SESTA/FOSTA, and more recently KOSA + all the lobbying from fundamentalists and oligarchical companies like MasterCard has made being online a TOTAL HELL HOLE!!! so i'm paying homage to old school webrings and spotlighting loved ones across the web ❤︎this is a WIP-constantly changing page! - maybe i'll be brave and link my personal neocities blog one day! (i built it with my own hands!) if you're a friend/mutual and want to be linked, hmu! i do not link wix sites because of their role in isrl's apartheid economy.

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My ex-roommate and bestie, Jade, started a discord for us to keep in touch and share our art/creativity! I suppose on some level we're an artist/creative collective - we've signed human rights petitions and run fundraising campaigns for causes like diyhrt(.)cafe too!📚 Check out our little bookshelf! ✨

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Natalie is available for: Workshops, school visits, teaching engagements, public speaking and other arts education gigs.

I have experience in all ages arts education and workshops including -★ Kid friendly comics and art workshops -- Great for teachers, librarians, and public programmers who are looking to bring comics into their classrooms and communities.★ Alternative literacy and storytelling programming and workshops through writing and drawing.★ Workshops that focus on telling personal stories through comics.★ Zine-making workshops.I currently hold a valid Child Abuse Registry Check from the Province of Manitoba and a Police Vulnerable Sectors Check (PVSC) from the City of Winnipeg - this means I am confirmed safe to work around children and other vulnerable persons.While I was living in Toronto, I completed the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) modules under a former employer.

Teaching Experience

★ Art Instructor at WAG QAUMAJUQ ★ 2022-present
Produced and delivered original and comprehensive curriculum for both youth and adult 10-week long or 1 week intensive courses at the Winnipeg Art Gallery QAUMAJUQ. -- Digital Drawing (Adults), Digital Drawing (Teens), and Graphic Novels (Teens).★ Art Instructor at FORUM Art Centre ★ 2024-present
Produced and delivered original and comprehensive curriculum for teen courses at FORUM. -- Teen Manga.★ Co-Facilitator for Story Planet WPG ★ 2024
Co-facilitated Story Planet's "StoryMaker" in-school program in two 5th grade classrooms alongside Rhael McGregor in the River East Transcona School Division in Winnipeg, MB.

Past Workshops

★ 2024 ★
Snoopy and the Red Barron Kids/all ages comics workshop at the Royal Aviation Museum for the Snoopy and the Red Barron exhibit from the Charles M. Schulz Museum.Atelier de ZINES / ZINES dans le jardin zine making workshop series with Maison des artistes in their sculpture garden throughout the summer.Pride Zine Crafternoon drop-in with ArtsJunktion at the Millennium Library.Collaborative Storytelling with Natalie 麥月明 workshop with VANCAF at the Roundhouse Community Centre, Vancouver.Reconnecting to Resistance, an all ages zine making workshop and learning circle with PAO! (Prairie Asian Organizers) at the University of Manitoba.★ 2021 ★
Video programming for Wee Asian Arts Channel – all ages video zine making workshop for Reel Asian Film Festival.

Past Panels & Programming

★ 2024 ★
Finances for Comic Makers, facilitated by Scott Henderson at the Prairie Comics Festival. Watch HEREPublic Speaking & Teaching for Artists, facilitated by Kathleen Gros at the Prairie Comics Festival, October. Watch HEREGuest speaker for Recipes for Resistance: A Food Zine Workshop by Christina Hajjar with the Prairie Art Book Fair at Plug In ICA.Spotlight on Cupcake Award Winners , with Award winners and mentors, Zach Clemente, Kat Fajardo, Eli Perez, and myself at CAKE Chicago.★ 2023 ★
Year of the Dragon banner painting workshop with the disability program at a local elementary school in Chinatown. See the Final product here.★ 2021 ★
Guest artist and zine reading for My Monsters Hold Me Soft workshop series hosted by Story Planet.★ 2020 ★
Comics Out Loud with Old Growth Press, a disability centred comics reading presented by the Canada Comics Open Library, Online★ 2019 ★
Next Page: Comics and Zines Creating Change, facilitated by Fiona Smyth at TCAF.

Public Art & Programming & Process

Misc Projects

February 2025 / 9p.

August 2024 / 56p.

The Tallest Star in the Sky

The Tallest Star in the Sky is a collections of short comics about how mother's haunt their children using both literal myth and scientific mythos. Featuring a story about the Harry Harlow Isolation in Monkeys experiments, a retelling of the Minotaur myth, and other esoteric interests.This comic was made through the CupCAKE award from the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) which provided me with printing funds and a mentorship. Thanks Zach Clemente (Bulgilhan Press) for the amazing mentorship!

October 2024 / 7p.

Ming Fan / 冥婚
'Ghost Marriage'

What does marriage mean for young Chinese women in feudal China? When faced with severe poverty, class disparity, and British colonialism.Spoiler-free image crops.

Featured in the cult of COMRAD Winnipeg Comics Anthology

because you look BONITA

2021 - ongoing / 12p.

Ghostface, I Like You!

Last night, ghostface called me and asked me about what I was watching! Now we keep running into each other and I think he's so nice and cute! TW for canon typical blood and gore.

2021 Fanzine / 32p.

Good Chicken

Good Chicken / 良い鶏肉
A perzine and fanzine based on a dream I had where Dabi (BNHA) and I unpacked our ptsd, desirability, apologies, and what it means to take responsibility for causing and carrying hurt. feat. my sister and a chicken. It doesn't cater to the BNHA universe, but it is not spoiler free.Winner of a Broken Pencil Zine Award in the fanzine category!! –“...A beautiful manifesto of graphic medicine”
– Fiona Smyth (Judge)Digital download available for purchase here ♡

2019 Old Growth Press / 20p.

from yesterday

A walk home on a rainy day with hands full of heavy groceries, the way the birds settle in the schoolyard. A family in a restaurant. From Yesterday is a publication released with Old Growth Press for their Summer 2019 launch. Through the retelling of mundane, but fleeting moments from childhood, From Yesterday features the progression of a year growing up in Winnipeg. There is no clear beginning, middle, or end, but rather an emotional progression that relies on memories.
In September 2020, Old Growth Press was asked to participate in Canada Comics Open Library programming, Comics Out Loud, where cartoonists did live readings of our work with blind accessibility in mind.The publication can be purchased in Toronto or at Page & Panel, the Beguiling, Another Story Bookstore, Art Metropole or directly from Old Growth Press' online shop.Purchase Online Here –

Prairie Comics 2025

Prairie Comics Festival Poster

I was asked to do the Prairie Comics Festival this year (2025) which is an absolute joy because it is my local festival and I've adored watching it grow into such an incredible event.Process: The main objective that I was asked of was to centre the communal aspects of the festival. I started with ideation thumbnails, rough and loose sketches, with a focus on showing people or creatures working together, as well as my own flavouring of "comics are magical".The Prairie Comics team (and my friends) were all drawn to thumbnail #2 with the note 'big comics, small world'. I took this rough sketch to an actual size refined sketch. This version, with handlettered text was presented at the Prairie Comics AGM, and from there it was taken to final. I had lots of fun designing these cute characters and making a poster that would be bursting with joy and community celebration!The Prairie Comics Festival is also adamantly pro-LGBTQ2S+ and often aligns with various human rights, so I felt very comfortable amplifying that in creative ways on the poster!See it on the website HERE-
More pics to come as we near the festival - printed posters and lanyards!

Winnipeg Chinatown 2024-2029

Chinatown Neighbourhood Banner Project

Winnnipeg Chinatown 2025

2024 Year of the Dragon Zodiac Banner

I was asked to work on the Winnipeg Chinese Cultural Community Centre (WCCCC) and Downtown BIZ’s annual zodiac banner project for the Chinatown area again. The BIZ and the WCCCC wanted the banners to be created by the community and for the community, building on what we did last year.In early December, we hosted workshops with Victoria Albert’s disability program, which is in an area with a lot of newcomers, refugees, and other marginalized people, to make art together. Public art brings people together, it engages the public, it offers education, it brings joy.In the story of the Great Race of the Chinese zodiac, the snake finished the race following the dragon. It attached itself to one of the horse's hooves because it knew it couldn’t swim across the river. In western cultures the snake often represents evil and deceit. In the zodiac, the snake is seen as clever, charming, and intuitive. To me, the snake is not just clever, but it is a creature of resilience. It's hated and feared by many, but in the Great Race, it finds a way to reach the finish line despite all odds.When the workshops are done with the kids, I have absolutely no clue what the final banner is going to look like. I can try to prep compositions all I want, but the kids themselves end up steering the boat and creative direction. In the making of this banner, I wanted to find a way to show the variety of the snakes painted and have a different composition from the Year of the Dragon Banner last year. I always really want the kids to be able to point at the banner and notice their art! I arranged the various snakes coming out from an abundance of peonies for my desire and hope for collective prosperity, wealth, and warmth for all who my find themselves in positions where they must be resilient like the snake!I hope that we can see the resilience and intelligence in the snake, to be generous and smart, as Chinese people always have been, because the littlest dragons will always find a way to reach the finish line anyway. Peace and prosperity, warmth and wealth to all who find themselves needing the snake’s resiliency.新年快乐 / Sun Ngin Fai Lok - Happy New Year!
恭喜发财 / Gong Hei Fat Choy - Prosperity and Good FortuneCHÚC MỪNG NĂM MỚI ! 새해 복 많이 받으세요!!!!more pics TBA

Winnnipeg Chinatown 2024

2024 Year of the Dragon Zodiac Banner

Winnipeg Chinese Cultural Community Centre (WCCCC) and Downtown BIZ’s annual zodiac banner design competition took on a new form for the 2024 year of the Dragon. Rather than their usual contest format, I was asked to involve members of the community in the art making process. With community facilitation support from Pauline Leung, and overall support from Jori Pincock from Downtown BIZ, this took the form of art workshops with the disability program at Victoria Albert Elementary School. The kids helped me paint some dragons that I then digitally collaged and painted on until it transformed into the current banner!Rather than a contest, this years Zodiac Banner was a community and public art project with Victoria Albert Elementary School’s disability program to co-create this year’s Chinatown Zodiac Banner for the Year of the Dragon! It was unveiled at the New Year Banquet celebrations at Kum Koon Garden organized by the WCCCC on February 13th. I was invited to sit at the Downtown BIZ table with all the wonderful folks that helped make this project happen, as well as give a speech on the banner itself. You can read my speech below!Two Chinese idioms translated to English, for peace and prosperity for the communities:
A spark ignites a prairie fire;
A drop of water penetrates stone.新年快乐 / sun ngin fai lok - happy new year!
恭喜发财 / gong hay fat choy - prosperity and good fortune
身体健康 / sun tai gin hong - good health!Thanks to Pauline Leung, Jori Pincock, tamara rae birch, Nelia Husack and Kathy Tang from Victoria Albert Elementary School along with the wonderful kids and staff!, Sign Source for production, and the folks at Downtown BIZ! Additional thank yous to the stakeholders - Tina Chen, Amy Zhang, Kwok Ngan, Shawna Dempsey, and Alan Wong.

XPACE Window Space

Bai Sun

Literally translating to, “honouring the gods,” Bai Sun is an installation that reimagines household altars - traditionally used for gods, ancestors and luck - as a way to honour memory, family, and history. The pieces embody spaces where our family’s cultural ties are strongest - restaurant, household, gravesite, factory, etc. The main piece of the installation is reminiscent of the calendars given away at Chinese food restaurants around the new year. Recreating these spaces through key objects invokes feelings of nostalgia and familiarity. This installation is a means of remembering and rekindling with the artists’ family and history.Documentation by Polina Teif.WINDOW SPACE
Natalie Mark and Sharon Ma, Bai Sun
July 5 - August 3, 2019Info and documentation on Xpace's website –
Read exhibition essay by Amanda Low –

TRANZAC Tiki Room

Night 4 Zines

Night 4 Zines was a publications-based event that acted as an alternative to traditional publishing launches. Organized by students, artists, and designers, a non-transactional space was provided for an informal book launch with community programming. Night 4 Zines was created with the intent to showcase traditionally uncentred voices and narratives within the Toronto self-publishing community.Our experiences as marginalized creators are felt privately so why not celebrate our successes together.Night 4 Zines was coordinated by myself with support from Sheila Sampath’s Nano Publishing course. Thank you to participating artists and those who were not able to make it: Rakshanda Khan, Vincy Lim, MAKE! SHIFT! LOVE! [Keet Geniza], Loretta Miauw, and Rabeea Syed. Thank you Seiji & Kaythi for their activist book club “Patchwork Primer” and for sharing a brief history of lesbian publishing. Thanks to Megan Amanda for the beautiful photos and Sheila Sampath (the Public) for the guidance and encouragement.Co-Programming:
Patchwork Primer (How Do We Find What We’re Not Looking For?)Hosted by Seiji & Kaythi –
Patchwork Primer is a compiled publication and book club workshop that focuses on histories of lesbian publishing. Attendees were invited to read as a group from several text excerpts giving a brief account of the role of lesbian publishing in western history and challenges that arise in small-scale publishing.

Toronto Pride 2017

DIY Love: Queer Knowledge & History: Then, Now, and Forever

DIY LOVE 2017 was a public wheat pasting workshop at Pride Toronto’s 2017 Street Fair in celebration of LGBTQ2S+ activist knowledge facilitated by a group of LGBTQ2S+ artists, designers, writers, and curators. With the intention of creating a wall that celebrates queer knowledge and history, parade goers had the opportunity to wheat paste using pre-made and donated posters, co-create with the posters, or simply make their own!The project is supported by OCAD University, Xpace Cultural Centre, and Toronto's larger LGBTQ2S+ community. We would like to thank the artists and groups who kindly donated posters and other content to the project: Anthea Black, OCAD U Student Press, Patterns Magazine, The Public, Francis Tomkins & Yasmin Emery, and Mary Tremonte.
This project was created by Lex B., Will Carpenter, Kaythi, Natalie Mark, Seiji, John Wigle, and Maya Wilson-Sanchez.Read full Artist Statement HERE –
Print ready, high-resolution scans of each poster can be downloaded here for you to print at home! –
On site photos compiled by XPACE –