love this Wing on Wo & Co exhibition (and kicking myself for not getting one of the ceramic norigae before they sold out...) curbed.com/2020/12/wing-o…

The Chinatown Core Block Association is troubled by these claims that seem to fly in the face of hundreds of Chinatown businesses that have been inexplicably CUT OUT of this program, we're calling on NYC Department of Small Business Services AGAIN, to explain this omission. www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-…

And the #My2020Hero award goes to…Mei Lum, who runs a community initiative using art + activism to fight displacement in NYC’s Chinatown. Home base is the Wing on Wo & Co storefront that’s been in her family for generations. LISC NY lisc.org/our-stories/st…

New plant baby! Frankie will be keeping our double happiness wedding guest board company. Beautiful planter from Wing on Wo & Co

What a loss for the community. Rest in power Corky Lee, the undisputed Asian American photographer laureate. He was always a presence at events, protests, vigils, celebrations, and has now left us with the largest repository of photographs documenting Asian American activism.

Four sets of mothers, daughters, and granddaughters on continuing the legacies of the Chinatown mom-and-pops that raised them. Meet the mothers and daughters fighting to keep Chinatown alive vogue.cm/NP7LEGd

We're so excited to see #RubingerFellow Mei Lum Wing on Wo & Co featured in Vogue Magazine! Mei and many other mom-and-pops in NYC's Chinatown are fighting to keep their legacies alive in the midst of #COVID19 vogue.com/article/chinat…

You can support Wing on Wo & Co's community initiative The W.O.W. Project by shopping our #AAPIHeritageMonth collection. We'll be donating 30% of sales to their mission to grow, protect, and preserve Chinatown through art, culture, and activism. strandbooks.com/metalist/aapi_…

Spent yesterday Wing on Wo & Co helping to paint the most beautiful mural led by JESS X. SNOW Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center Mei Lum, titled “The Future of Our Asian Community is Safe.” The mural (on Mosco Street) features WOW Project youth and community elders 💛 💛

🫖 Meet Nancy, Lorraine, and Mei, three generations of women behind Wing on Wo & Co, the oldest operating store in NYC’s Chinatown. Wing on Wo & Co. has been offering fine porcelain since its founding in 1890. 📸: June Kim

At 26 years old and with zero formal training in running a business, Mei Lum became the fifth-generation owner of Wing On Wo & Co., the Chinatown business her great-great-grandfather Walter Eng founded in the 1890s thecut.io/3ftUC6t

A recent NYT Magazine photo essay about NYC waking up included our mural w/o acknowledging the artist JESS X. SNOW and the community org Wing on Wo & Co who made it possible. This is perpetuating the invisibility of Asian America. Acknowledge who we are. Say our names.

As if it wasn’t bad enough fashion designers use Chinatown as a backdrop and people as photoshoot props, designers like Prabal Gurung are now erasing our bilingual land acknowledgements that pay respect to the Lenape people and their enduring relationship with lenapehoking

i also supported these 💥 orgs who give me hope: - WOW Wing on Wo & Co doing 🔥 cultural organizing in Chinatown - Chayn 💖🌈 supporting survivors of abuse - Justice Democrats building a fierce progressive caucus in Congress - People Powered my 🌍 democracy home i invite you to join me!

ICYMI—Explore art and activism in Manhattan's Chinatown with Tomie Araj, artist and cofounder of ChinatownArtBrigade, and Mei Lum, Met Civic Practice Partnership Artist-in-Residence and cofounder of the W.O.W. Project at Wing on Wo & Co. 🎥 Watch ↓ metmuseum.org/events/program…