Causes: Art Museums, Arts & Culture, Performing Arts, Visual Arts
Mission: Why?For Love & Art believes that viewing art unleashes powerful, creative and unique experiences for people and that sharing these experiences greatly elevates quality of life psychosocially, cognitively, spiritually and physically. How?For Love & Art partners with the community outreach programs of fine museums around the world and showcases their collections individually, (Virtual Museum ArtBooks), or in group presentations ("Courting the Art Experience"). Professional and volunteer caregivers actively engage participants to reflect, recollect and share their experiences while viewing museum masterpieces. Fear, loneliness and boredom transform into beauty, joy and magic of life. This modality is clinically termed, "therapeutic art. "What?For Love & Art is a 501(c)3 nonprofit enterprise whose mission is to bring the Art Experience to people with limited mobility. We stimulate art appreciation, while empowering caregivers to love people in creative and transformative ways. Simply, we use museum art to "love on" people.
Results: As of December 31,2021:Partnered with 30 fine museums around the world. Gave over 4,170 "Courting the Art Experience" group presentations to over 46,500 residents in senior communities and isolated others. Placed 365 Virtual Museum ArtBooks as memorial gifts in hospices, hospitals and senior venues. Trained over 400 caregivers. Touched nearly 1,000,000 individuals. With the challenges the pandemic brought, we instituted Virtual therapeutic art sessions via ZOOM, providing 444 hour-long sessions to 6,820 isolated and suffering seniors from around the world, using art to instigate global unity in serious times.
Target demographics: People with Limited Mobility: Seniors, the sick and infirm, those with end of life issues. People in hospitals, predominantly children and veterans.
Direct beneficiaries per year: Patients, residents and caregivers in VA Hospitals in various cities, Senior Communities, Hospitals
Geographic areas served: Senior Communities, Hospices, and Hospitals all over the world.
Programs: "Celebrating the Art Experience" An hour long therapeutic art program during which residents of senior communities are engaged by volunteers to share their experience while viewing masterpieces from our partner museums on big screen community televisions. Fear, loneliness and boredom transform into Beauty, Joy and Magic of Life!Virtual Museum ArtBook Endowment: An individual or group fundraises $750.00 & chooses an eligible healthcare facility (hospice, hospital, VA Medical Center) to endow a Virtual Museum ArtBook in memory of a chosen other. The perfect memorial gift that brings art and what art provides - mind, body and soul - to the infirm at the grassroots.
Mission: Why?For Love & Art believes that viewing art unleashes powerful, creative and unique experiences for people and that sharing these experiences greatly elevates quality of life psychosocially, cognitively, spiritually and physically. How?For Love & Art partners with the community outreach programs of fine museums around the world and showcases their collections individually, (Virtual Museum ArtBooks), or in group presentations ("Courting the Art Experience"). Professional and volunteer caregivers actively engage participants to reflect, recollect and share their experiences while viewing museum masterpieces. Fear, loneliness and boredom transform into beauty, joy and magic of life. This modality is clinically termed, "therapeutic art. "What?For Love & Art is a 501(c)3 nonprofit enterprise whose mission is to bring the Art Experience to people with limited mobility. We stimulate art appreciation, while empowering caregivers to love people in creative and transformative ways. Simply, we use museum art to "love on" people.
Results: As of December 31,2021:Partnered with 30 fine museums around the world. Gave over 4,170 "Courting the Art Experience" group presentations to over 46,500 residents in senior communities and isolated others. Placed 365 Virtual Museum ArtBooks as memorial gifts in hospices, hospitals and senior venues. Trained over 400 caregivers. Touched nearly 1,000,000 individuals. With the challenges the pandemic brought, we instituted Virtual therapeutic art sessions via ZOOM, providing 444 hour-long sessions to 6,820 isolated and suffering seniors from around the world, using art to instigate global unity in serious times.
Target demographics: People with Limited Mobility: Seniors, the sick and infirm, those with end of life issues. People in hospitals, predominantly children and veterans.
Direct beneficiaries per year: Patients, residents and caregivers in VA Hospitals in various cities, Senior Communities, Hospitals
Geographic areas served: Senior Communities, Hospices, and Hospitals all over the world.
Programs: "Celebrating the Art Experience" An hour long therapeutic art program during which residents of senior communities are engaged by volunteers to share their experience while viewing masterpieces from our partner museums on big screen community televisions. Fear, loneliness and boredom transform into Beauty, Joy and Magic of Life!Virtual Museum ArtBook Endowment: An individual or group fundraises $750.00 & chooses an eligible healthcare facility (hospice, hospital, VA Medical Center) to endow a Virtual Museum ArtBook in memory of a chosen other. The perfect memorial gift that brings art and what art provides - mind, body and soul - to the infirm at the grassroots.
4848 Lemmon Avenue Ste. 100-623, Dallas, TX 75219
855-427-8669
Arts & Culture
Dallas
