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Florence Arquin, Director of the Kodachrome Slide Project for the American Council on Education in Cooperation with the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs is at present assembling units of Kodachrome slides on various aspects of life and culture in Latin America. These are to be made available for teaching purposes in this country.

Though primarily an artist and photographer, she has been working on the art education filled for many years and has lectured extensively on this and allied subject in the Latin American field.

She is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received her Masters Degree in art education after completing requirements at the National University of Mexico, in which country she has lived for extended periods.

She has photographed aspects of life in the United States for use by educational agencies in Latin America.

She has organized and directed art departments at both the elementary and high school levels in Illinois; was Assistant to the State Director of the Federal Art project of Illinois for three years; was a staff member of the Art institute of Chicago from 1939 to 1942, education Department, and collaborated with the Museum of Modern Art, Cleveland Museum, the Albright Gallery in Buffalo and the Milwaukee Art Institute on a research project made possible by a grant from the Chicago Education Board. A summary of the results of this program has recently been published in a book called "The Art Museum Comes to the School" by Linda Powell, Harpers, 1944.

She has exhibited paintings in annual Chicago exhibitions, international water color exhibitions, museums, galleries in Philadelphia, Kansas, New York, Springfield, Illinois, etc. In 1944 she had a one-man exhibition of oil paintings in the Benjamin Franklin Library in Mexico City.

She has been a guest lecturer in the Art Institute of Chicago for the membership series and participated in the recent posado seminar. She has also appeared as guest lecturer for the Chicago Junior Lecture college system and for many of the teachers training institutions and teachers colleges in the middle west; was a lecturer and consultant at the George Peabody and Fiske Universities; in American workshops in 1944; and has recently spoken on Latin American art at both Goucher College and Springfield College, Massachusetts. 

She is also known as an art critic and contributes to various art journals.