Meghan Walley

Some of my life’s earliest memories are of interactions with the natural world: tiny crabs skittering out from under rocks, icicles forming on fallen branches that lay across a creek, the smell of blackberries fermenting in the cooling August dusk.

I have diverse interests, from art and writing, to science and ecology, to archaeology and museums. These many facets share a goal: to channel my sense of wonder through art and storytelling, facilitating connections with science, history, and culture.

Curriculum Vitae

  • Degrees

    2018 - MA, Archaeology, Memorial University of Newfoundland

    2015 - BA Honours, Major in Anthropology, Minor in Geography, McGill University

    Courses

    2024 - AHVS 488K: Exhibition Planning and Design, University of Victoria

    2023 - CSIL 110: Digital Tools for Illustrators, Emily Carr University of Art and Design

    2023 - CSIL 114: Illustrating Nature, Emily Carr University of Art and Design

    2021 - FNLG 108: The Sechelt Language I (sháshíshálhem I), Capilano University

    2020- HERM 339: Conservation, Athabasca University

  • Solo Exhibitions

    2025 (Upcoming) - Ecologies, The Gumboot, Robert’s Creek, BC

    2024 - Solo Exhibition, The Gumboot, Robert’s Creek, BC

    2023 - Solo Exhibition, Brassica, Gibsons, BC

    Group Exhibitions

    2025 (Upcoming) - Forager’s Moon Long Table Dinner and Art Show, The Living Room Studio, Gibsons, BC

    2025 - FOG, Sunshine Coast Arts Council, Sechelt, BC

    2024 - Sunshine Coast Art Crawl, The Living Room Studio, Gibsons, BC

    2024 - Celebrate the Coast, Persephone, Gibsons, BC

    2023 - Sunshine Coast Art Crawl, Living Room Studio, Gibsons, BC

  • 2024 - Nature Drawing Workshop (Ages 6-9), Pender Harbour Community School (Instructor)

    2018 - Archaeological Illustration Workshop, Labrador Institute, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Instructor)

    2018 - Community-Based Oral History Interviewing Workshop, BOLDfest Annual Conference (Co-Instructor)

    2018 - Oral History in Archives Workshop, International Federation for Research in Women’s History Annual Meeting (Instructor)

    2017 - Archaeological Illustration Workshop, Labrador Institute, Memorial University of Newfoundland (Instructor)

    2016 - Archaeological Illustration Workshop, Newfoundland and Labrador Archaeological Society (Co-Instructor)

     

  • 2025 (Forthcoming) - Forager’s Moon, collaborative self-published zine (co-edited and contributed essays and digital illustrations)

    2020 - Review of Spirits of the Coast: Orcas in Science, Art and History by Martha Black, Lorne Hammond, and Gavin Hanke (Eds). BC Studies.

    2020 - Review of Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth: Gender, Shamanism, and the Third Sex, by Bernard Saladin D’Anglure. Arctic 73(1).

    2019 - Incorporating Nonbinary Gender into Inuit Archaeology: Oral Testimony and Material Inroads. Routledge: London, UK.

    2018 - Exploring Potential Archaeological Expressions of Nonbinary Gender in Pre-Contact Inuit Contexts. Études/Inuit/Studies 42(1).

    2018 - “Joan Nestle”, The Queer Bible: www.queerbible.com/queerbible/2018/1/16/joan-nestle-by-meghan-walley

    2017 - InDIGnant: Archaeology by and for Activists, Feminists, Punks, Queers, Anarchists, and Coprolite Disturbers, collaborative self-published zine (edited and contributed poetry and illustrations)