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Geraldine Robarts  
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1987-1998 Consultant Trainer for various rural community projects in Kenya (refer to section'Development Consultancies')
1989 Visiting Professor at McGill University, Canada. Department of Ethnographic Studies.
1987 Consultant to McGill University to select sculptures for the joint Kisii-Unuit Sculptures Exhibition for the National Museum of Canada and U.S.A.
1985 Organised and conducted a workshop for youth at Nairobi Bahá'í Centre. Taught papermaking and making crayons using vegetable dyes.
1983-1984 Developed and designed the new UNESCO Sourcebook for Art Education: Traditional Techniques in Art Education from East Africa (206 pages, printed 1985 in five languages).
  Designed an educational kit of 300 slides for Art school teachers on the use of traditional artistic techniques from West Africa. Produced and wrote a video film on these materials.
1982 Organised and conducted workshops on papermaking, dyeing, weaving, wax printing and claywork for the kindergarten Headmistresses Association of Kenya
1981 Organised and conducted handicraft workshops for youth on papermaking and the use of vegetable dyes at Kenya Institute of Education.
1980 Organised and conducted handicraft workshops for primary and secondary school (in conjunction with Kenya Institute of Education, Nairobi)
1977-1979 Lecturer in Painting and Head of the Painting Department, Kenyatta University Collge, Nairobi.
1974-1977 Lecturer on the Crafts Training Programme at YMCA Crafts Training Centre, Shauri-Moyo, Nairobi. Design consultant for the development of micro-industries for Kenya and export markets in ceramic, leatherwork, screen printing and jewellry making.
1964-1970 Lecturer in Art Education and lecturer in Audio-Visual Communications, Makerere University, Kampala. Teaching post-graduate students for the Diploma in Education as well as B.Ed students as teachers for East Africa.
1968-1969 Supervised mural paintings on village shops by school children, Kisugu, Uganda. Organised an exhibition of children's art in the Uganda Museum.