Citizenship: Canadian and U.S.(Colorado)
Languages: English/French
QUEBEC Workshops
“…a highlight for me was Rae Marie Taylor’s workshop. A master class in facilitating artists’ most honest and imaginative work”
Eileen Kennedy, workshop participant.
2024 Facilitator. Creative Writing workshop at BORDERS. CANUSA Poetry Symposium. Stanstead.
Facilitator of the Creative Writing workshop L’ATELIER LUDIQUE with 4 colleagues at Le Festival international de poésie. Trois rivières.
2016 Maison de la Littérature. Workshop leader for ‘Creative Writing for Native and Immigrant Women’ for the Comité femmes du Centre québécois P.E.N. international (recommended by Laure Morali). Quebec City.
2014 Storyteller and artist facilitator. Childrens’ Creativity workshops as guest author during ImagiNation Writers’ Festival, Morrin College. Quebec City.
MONTRÉAL, QC. Teacher, Lecturer
1993-2004 Professor, Dawson College
English Department: Professor. Established and taught Dawson’s first Native American/First Nations Literature course. Taught Creative Writing Workshops and The Short Story
Concordia University, Simone de Beauvoir Institute
1995-1997 Founder and Professor of Native/First Nations Women’s Literature
Research Associate, 1994-’98, member of Fellow Seminar on Autobiographical Writing.
Co-coordinator of First Nations Women’s Reading Series
1995 and 1996 Presenter/participant. Colloquia on First Nations Research sponsored by Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Centre for community and Ethnic Studies.
NEW MEXICO, U.S.A.
Conference Coordinator for Recursos de Santa Fe and its Santa Fe Literary Center. 1990-1992
Literary conferences :
Co-Director (with Melissa Pritchard). The Santa Fe Writers’ Conference.
Coordinator. The Taos Conference on Writing and the Natural World
Coordinator. Chicana Poetry Festival
Coordinator. The New Fin de Siècle, the Writer in the 90’s
Coordinator of Archaeological Conferences:
Kachinas in the Pueblo World; World View and Ritual
Indian Art of the Great Plains, in collaboration with the Museums of New Mexico and Pueblo artists and storytellers.
Common Threads: Pre-hispanic Historic and Contemporary Fiber Arts, in collaboration with the School of American Research, the Art Institute of Chicago and New Mexico Weavers
Professional Guide and interpreter in Art and Archaeology of the Southwest. In French and in English 1989-‘93
Examples of tours guided in French for the State Department of the United States:
Conseillers de l’Afrique francophone en politiques d’art
Conseillers de l’Afrique francophone en politiques de relations inter-tribales
Les Directeurs du Musée de la Pologne
And in English for Recursos de Santa Fe:
Western States Art Federation
Vermont Folklife Center,
Southwestern Association of Indian Art
The New Britain Museum of American Art,
UCLA Friends of Archeology National Advisory Board,
Coalition for Quality Children’s Media
Coordinator For (Native and non-Native) Author Appearances at The Bookroom, (independent bookstore) 1989 – 90
Translator of the Paul Coze documents for the Museum of the Institute of American Indian Art 1992
Creativity workshops for young children, ages 5-10, in my artist studio 1991-’93: Full or half day creativity workshops while their parents were visiting the area Southwest Adventures destination management company.
QUEBEC, QC:
College de Limoilou:
Fine Arts Professor and Coordinator 1984 to 1988. Drawing/Painting/Art History
English Second Language Professor 1968-1984: Teaching: language acquisition; report and creative writing, translation. Involved in department development, curriculum development.
Director, Modern Languages Department 1976 to 1979
Chairwoman for REIMP (Research, Experimentation and Implementation of a modular program for ESL). 1976 to 1979
Member, Executive Committee for Provincial ESL Pedagogical Committee, Quebec Ministry of Education 1976-1979