Maman Disait ("What maman said")
Dedicated to 
Rita L. St. Germain Côté, 1919-1982 (Maman)
Proverbes en Français--Collages
by
Rhea Côté Robbins
Maman Disait--Artist Statement
Bibliography
Show Catalogue 
*Sales, postcards/collages info below

List of Proverbes en/in Français/French --(for lesson plans: mix/match, proverb search, translation)
List of Proverbes en/in Anglais/English --(forlesson plans:  mix/match,  proverb search, translation)
List of Proverbes in Français/French/Anglais/English --(Answers, language lesson, folklore unit)
Maine Learining Results
Possible lessons from collages in:
  • English Language Arts
  • Modern and Classical Languages 

  • (ELEMENTARY GRADES 3-4Identify idiomatic expressions in their own language and the second language.*)
  • Social Studies
  • Visual and Performing Arts
Lesson Plans (Some links may be broken)
Proverb Links (Some links may be broken)
Selection of collages
Schedule of the show
Press

UMVA Showcase Spring 2024--Nancy Coyne, Winslow Myers, Rhea Cote Robbins, Martha Maloney, UMVA Showcase Spring 2024

French proverbs echo from past, Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel Tuesday, July 17, 2007
UMFK Acadian Archives exhibit "Maman Disait" opens December 2
 'Maman Disait' opening at Franco center, Lewiston Sun Journal, Friday, April 21,2006
Hudson Museum Exhibit "Maman Disait" Celebrates a Mother's Proverbs
Featured in ECHOES, Rediscovering Community, No. 73, "French in a Frame," by Kathryn Olmstead
Women in the Curriculum and Women's Studies Program: Fall 2006 Lunch Series
Magog, QC, Weekly
Memories of Maine
"Listen to your MOTHER," Maine Sunday Telegram, Portland, ME, 9-24-2006


*Sales:  If you would like to purcahse a set of the postcards of the collages, more info here:
http://www.fawi.net/proverbes/MamanDisaitsales.html
For more information or if you would like the show to come to you and to Contact the artist,  Rhea Côté Robbins,  email: rjean.cote@gmail.com
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Collages are for sale, contact the artist, Rhea Côté Robbins,  email: rjean.cote@gmail.com.  If you would like to commission a work, please write!