OPTION 2
Comic
Zine
Zine
Connect
OPTION 2
Teachers participate in a 75 minute orientation session with LEARN.
Teachers use or adapt LEARN’s List of Guiding Questions to explore students’ personal experiences and reasons for learning French.
Teachers collaborate with artists to guide students in creating comic zines about their personal experiences and motivations for learning French. Artists provide three in-person workshop sessions, each lasting 60 to 90 minutes.
Students reflect on their experience and use of French, then celebrate and showcase their completed project with the school and/or broader community.
Teachers share project outcomes and student work with LEARN.
LAURENCE DEA DIONNE shares their time between three loves: drawing, stories, and family. In their life, and through their works (among others: Nuances, Zen & the Ephemeral, and the Homeward series written by author Francis McNamee), this artist promotes bilingualism, a testament to their Montreal origin, in addition to wellness; most notably mental health and gender identity. Equipped with a bachelor’s degree in art education from Concordia University, Laurence teaches comics in the public system and in the community; sharing the magic of art and speaking to the importance of wellness throughout the world.
SCOTT MACLEOD was born in Canada and his family are of Scottish, Irish, English and Norse descent. He moved to Montreal in 1970 where he was educated in both French and English. MacLeod holds a BFA specialization in printmaking and photography and an MA in Art Education from Concordia University. He attended The Banff Centre on the Tevie and Arliss Miller scholarship, studied master works at The Uffizi Gallery in Florence on the Elizabeth T. Greenshields Scholarship and represented Canada at the European City of Culture Festival in Dublin. His work has been collected by a number of corporations and museums. He is a fellow at The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico and a recipient of the William Blair Bruce European Travel Fine Arts Scholarship from the Canadian Scandinavian Foundation and an affiliate at COHDS Concordia Oral History and Digital Storytelling lab at Concordia University, during his graduate work he specialized in oral histories.
He has worked for LEARN Quebec and Artist Inspired Grants ELAN since 2020 offering zine and comic book workshops through their art in school programs. He encourages a no mistakes approach to learning through the arts. He also teaches privately, consults and lectures on better business and creative art practices. His company MacLeod 9 Productions has produced and collaborated on 8 animated and 2 documentary film projects with the National Film Board of Canada to produce educational films, graphic novels and web content as teaching tools for schools, libraries, Parks Canada, museums and the public. All of his work can be seen at MacLeod 9 Productions and for an overview watch his film reel .
In 2017, 2018, 2022, 2023 and 2026 he attended the SIM Residency in Reykjavik Iceland to create and complete his current film and graphic novel project Norse Women’s Saga Series on women in from the Norse Sagas during the settlement of Iceland, Scotland, Greenland and Newfoundland.