TEACHING
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RESUME
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DIANNE ZIMBABWE
Visual Artist, B.A. Studio Art;

English Language Educator, M.A. Applied Linguistics
website: diannezimbabwe.com
email: dzimbabweart@gmail.com

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PROFESSIONAL PROFILES                                                                  

  • Creative Teaching Artist: Organizes, develops and facilitates multi-cultural, inter-generational workshops
  • Tutor: Observes closely and patiently encourages students to set positive constructive goals
  • Lively, humorous, creative approach to language, social studies, literature, education, math and science
  • Strong artistic foundation that keeps growing daily
  • Intermediate Proficiency in Microsoft and Google suites, Photoshop
  • Intermediate level of reading, writing and conversing in French
  • Strong "people" skills 

EXPERIENCE                                                                                         

  • Science:

    Owl Box project and owl awareness workshops

    Nature Walks: Herbs, Roots, Clouds

    Childbirth preparation classes

  • Social Studies:

    Walking tours of historic sites in Highland Park Roxbury

  • English Language Learning and Literacy:

    Family story-writing coach
    G.E.D. math/science/writing classroom and tutoring
    English language instructor/tutor for English Learners

  • Creative/Expressive Arts:

    Creative problem-solving through visual arts
    Modeling a positive approach to life, confidence, self-esteem
    Integrates visual arts with critical social studies/science/literacy

    Transforms poetry and visual arts into socially responsive performance arts

  • International Practice:

    Interprets between French and English for traditional arts workshops
    Debut as solo exhibiting artist, St. Thomas Parish, Jamaica, WI, 1984
    Practiced/taught portraiture, landscape, botany, bookmaking, abstract design, Jamaica, WI, 1984-85

  • Visual Artist:

    Printmaking and Photography
    Bogolan – traditional Malian mud painting 

    Drawing, Illustration and design 

    Acrylics on canvas 
    Self-taught in watercolors, clay, basic sewing and weaving

  • Performance Artist:

    Monthly readings of prisoners' poetry and prose

    Afro-Brazilian dance performance, "Iwa Pele" by Isaura Oliveira, 2001

EDUCATION                                                                                           

  •     Afro Flow Yoga Teacher-in-Training
  •     Creative Entrepreneur Fellowship, Arts & Business Council Boston
  •     Master of Arts, Applied Linguistics, U Mass Boston
  •     Haitian Language Intensive (learning/praxis), UMass Boston 
  •     Art and cultural tour of Mali, West Africa
  •     Docent (training/praxis), Discover Roxbury, Byron Rushing, other historians
  •     English Teacher (training/praxis), Berlitz Boston 
  •     French language (learning/praxis)
  •     Malian master artist AlFousseiny Kelly, Bogolan studio intensive
  •     Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art, Simmons College 
  •     Independent studies: art, music, dance, folklore, oral history of Africa and Diaspora, 1970-present 
  •     Art and art history studies tour of Italy, 1970