Inspiring Women Magazine November 2023

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Embracing Culture:
Supporting the Target
Project, Awesome Blossoms
Frances Durocher, an archaeologist
and art historian and graduate of
the University of Michigan, earned
her PhD in World Art and
Museology from the University of
East Anglia, UK. Frances is an AWC
Berlin member and active with the
FAWCO DEIB Team. Over the next
year, Frances is giving a series of
art tours in Berlin where all the
proceeds will go towards the FAWCO
Target Project, Awesome Blossoms.
After years of fieldwork in Australia, Kenya,
and Peru, Frances earned an MA in the Arts
of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas and a
PhD in World Art and Museology. She has
worked for museums in the US, Peru, UK,
and Europe. She teaches and provides
multicultural art classes and archaeological
programs for children and gives art tours in
various Berlin state museums. She was also
part of the 2022-2025 FAWCO Target Project
Selection Committee.
Frances Durocher standing next to August Gaul's
Reclining Lion in the James Simon Galerie entrance to the
Pergamon Museum. Photo credit: Jana Lilian Kaiser
Ishtar Gate,
Pergamon
Museum
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