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