Lola Fraknoi, Director of Community Programs
Lola Fraknoi was born in Lima, Peru and educated in the United States. She holds an MFA from the California College of the Arts (CCA).
Lola has dedicated her professional life to working with seniors. Her strengths include her collaborative spirit, developing programs that inspire, create community, and engage body and mind.
She worked at Bethany Center Senior Housing for 10 years beginning in 1990 when she organized, fund-raised and publicized the development of Salud!, the tallest mural in San Francisco. Lola directed a documentary about the creation of Salud! that has been screened all over the world. She returned to Bethany Center to open Ruth's Table, a new center for creative learning rooted in the life of artist Ruth Asawa.
Besides working at Bethany Center, she has worked as Director of Art with Elders and as Director of Holocaust Survivor Services. Her work with Holocaust Survivor Services took her and a group of survivors to Washington, DC. The documentary, Bashert, follows the group to the 10th Anniversary of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, and back to the Bay Area. The film won many awards.
lfraknoi@ruthstable.org
415.821.4515 ext 26
Lola has dedicated her professional life to working with seniors. Her strengths include her collaborative spirit, developing programs that inspire, create community, and engage body and mind.
She worked at Bethany Center Senior Housing for 10 years beginning in 1990 when she organized, fund-raised and publicized the development of Salud!, the tallest mural in San Francisco. Lola directed a documentary about the creation of Salud! that has been screened all over the world. She returned to Bethany Center to open Ruth's Table, a new center for creative learning rooted in the life of artist Ruth Asawa.
Besides working at Bethany Center, she has worked as Director of Art with Elders and as Director of Holocaust Survivor Services. Her work with Holocaust Survivor Services took her and a group of survivors to Washington, DC. The documentary, Bashert, follows the group to the 10th Anniversary of the Holocaust Memorial Museum, and back to the Bay Area. The film won many awards.
lfraknoi@ruthstable.org
415.821.4515 ext 26
Jerry W. Brown, Executive Director
Jerry W. Brown, CASP, is Executive Director of Bethany Center Senior Housing, Inc. in San Francisco, California. Mr. Brown has held this position for over twenty years.
Bethany Center serves low-income seniors and younger disabled adults through HUD subsidized housing with supportive services allowing them to age in peace and avoid premature institutionalization.
Bethany Center has won many state and national awards for its service model. Mr. Brown is an active member of Aging Services of California and Leading Age. He speaks regularly at state, national and international conferences on housing with supportive services.
jbrown@bethanycenter.org
415.821.4515 ext 11
Bethany Center serves low-income seniors and younger disabled adults through HUD subsidized housing with supportive services allowing them to age in peace and avoid premature institutionalization.
Bethany Center has won many state and national awards for its service model. Mr. Brown is an active member of Aging Services of California and Leading Age. He speaks regularly at state, national and international conferences on housing with supportive services.
jbrown@bethanycenter.org
415.821.4515 ext 11
Monica Lee, Artist in Residence
Monica Lee has been a professional photographer in San Francisco for 30 years. Her works, including three books, have been published nationally and internationally. Monica has spent the last decade volunteering in her children's SF Public schools working on classroom projects, art auctions, and wherever she was needed. Most recently, Monica has devoted her time to her life-long passion for making art. She has been influenced all her life by her 90-year-old father who can always be found making and building things. She has taught dozens of craft workshops in the Bay Area with participants ages 2-99 and focuses on using repurposed, recycled and found materials in her work.
Monica lives in San Francisco with her husband Jonathan Rapp, their children Elana and Samuel Rapp, and their beloved dog Herby. Monica is excited about the artistic possibilities that serving as an Artist-in-Residence for Ruth's Table brings for the residents and the community. Aiko Cuneo, guest artist
Aiko Cuneo is the daughter of Ruth Asawa. After graduating in 1972 from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, she assisted Asawa on public commissions.
Aiko works as an artist in residence in public schools, gives workshops in museums, and arts organizations like SCRAP. She worked with The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco on Asawa’s 2006 Retrospective and exhibition catalogue, Contours in the Air. We are excited to have Aiko teaching workshops at Ruth’s Table. LOGO AND BRAND DESIGN
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