Special Projects for Under-served Facilities
At the Bay Area Rescue Mission, a residential rehabilitation center, Francesca has been working since 2017 with the Fountain Project to develop a curriculum for art and social awareness. She teaches art classes for the women’s division, including water-color and figure drawing. She also gives classes in Qi Gong, a Chinese movement meditation form practiced for health, balance, and anger management. Working with ‘at risk’ homeless people fulfills one of her basic tenets, that art should be used as an instrument for social change.
