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ca. 1951
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 Division, also
Exhibitions and Gallery Projects for Federal Art Project of Illinois, 1935-1938.

Assistant to State Director
In charge of Public Relations and Teaching Program 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 of 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. 

Consultant and Specialist:
Summer 1945, United States Office of Education, Division of Inter-American Educational Relations. Latin American workshops at 11 Universities in the United States. Lectures, conferences on Latin American materials, and use of visual aids, etc. 

Exchange Specialist:
Department of State, Division of International Exchange of Persons, October 15, 1945-May 13, 1946. Assignment to photograph in Kodachrome, aspects of life and culture in Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador and to give lectures at Bi-National Cultural Institute in those countries. 

1947 - Kodachrome Photography:
Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti. Lectures at Universities and Inter-American Institutes in each of these countries.

1947 - Lectures - Mexico:
Guest lecturer for International Council of Museums, meeting jointly with Unesco in Mexico City. Special lectures at the Palace of Fine Arts; the Embassy of the U.S.A; the Mexican-American Cultural Institute, and for the Brazilian Embassy.