Mona Garcia

Our concept for a premier training center for artistic development and healthful aging was first conceived by founder and president, Mona Blocker Garcia, many years ago. Understanding, personally, how stifling life’s pressures can be to the creative spirit; believing that women, specifically mature women, are underrepresented in the artistic community, Ms. Garcia envisioned a haven for those women — one that provided a nurturing, protective environment, conducive to the fulfillment of their true promise and potential.

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Building 98 at Fort D.A. Russell has been specially selected as the International Woman’s Foundation headquarters. Formerly an officer’s club and bachelor officer’s quarters, Building 98 is historically a place where officers came to relax and fellowship with their peers. It now stands as a physical reminder of the camaraderie that service men and women shared with each other, and with the local and international communities.

The most exciting treasure contained within its walls are two rooms of oil-on-plaster murals painted by German prisoners of war interned at the camp between 1943 and 1945.

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