Françoise Schein

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT FRANÇOISE SCHEIN

Specialties: art, urban art, socially engaged art, human rights art, pedagogy, arts education, sculptures with multi media. Her main talents : Adaptability, persuasion, creativity, patience and persistence Languages : Fluent in French, English and Portuguese. Notions of Flemish Françoise Schein was born in Brussels. She graduated with a Magna Cum Laude in architecture and urban design from the La Cambre Brussels School of Visual Arts and Architecture. She also received an MA in Urban Design at Columbia University in New York in 1979. Thereafter she studied one year at the N.Y.U University, Art Department before starting to work in NY as an artist concentrating her major interest on urban issues, culture at large and democracy. Since 2004, Françoise Schein holds a tenure position at the School of Fine Arts in Caen in Normandy as a Sculpture and Urban Art & Design professor. Prior to hold her tenure position, F. Schein was a visiting professor at various universities and art\'s schools. She lives and works in Paris and follows her projects all over the world. Schein’s work is centered on the mental map-making of places and the multiple layers of information that define it. For more than 30 year, she has been pursuing the construction of a world série of large-scale artistic projects centered on democracy issues and the human rights. Schein has invented a very humane methodology for the pedagogical production of her work, involving all kinds of people from a variety of social classes and ages Françoise Schein is the Founder and the Director of the NGO Association INSCRIRE created in 1997. In the course of her career she has received a great amount of grants and supports from public, institutions and private donors to help produce her art engaged in the relationship between knowledge and democracy. As a social entrepreneur, F. Schein has always succeeded in realizing her dreams by convincing people, cities, institutions and individuals to support her cause, which is yours as well.