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12 Ca. 1950

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Florence Arquin
Hotel Belmont
Chicago 14, Illinois

Master's Degree in Art Education: 
Awarded by School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Post Graduate Studies:
National University, Mexico City.

Organized Art Department:
Flossmoor Public School; taught classes part-time 1933-1936.

Organized Art Department:
Libertyville Township High School; taught art classes, History of Art Lectures, part-time 1934-1937.

Supervisor of Easel Painting:
Exhibitions and Gallery Projects for Federal Art Project of Illinois, 1935-1938.

Assistant to State Director in charge of Public Relations and Art Teaching Programs for Illinois, Federal Art Project, Illinois, 1938-1939.

Museum Instructor, Education Department at Art Institute of Chicago:
General Education Board Grant, 1939-1942, for experiment in secondary education (high school project). Joint report including findings from Chicago Art Institute, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, Cleveland Museum, Albright Gallery of Buffalo, and Milwaukee Art Institute, published 1944 (Harper & Brothers), "The Art Museum Comes to the School" - Lydia Powell.

Kodachrome Photographer:
Mexico and Yucatan: The Mexican Way of Life, 2,000 slides, 1942-1944.

Kodachrome Photographer:
Life in Vermont, 1944, for use in educational institutions of Central and South America, sponsored by American Council on Education, Filmstrip Division.

Director, Kodachrome Slide Project:
June 1944-June 1945, for American Council on Education, in cooperation with office of Co-ordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Organization of sequences of Kodachrome Slides in specific fields of Latin American Studies, and preparation of accompanying teacher's guides for each of 33 such sequences.