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Biographical Notes
Florence Arquin
Belmon Hotel
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

Supervisor of Easel Painting Division, also
Exhibition and Gallery Projects for Federal Art Project of Illinois, 1935-1938

Assistant to State Director
In charge of Pubic Relations and 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 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, Film-strip 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 Kodachrome, aspects of life and culture in Brazil, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador and to give lectures at Bi-National Cultural Institutes in those countries.

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