Art Angel volunteers showcase and discuss masterpieces from our partner museums to delight, astonish, intrigue, and comfort folks who need it most. For Love and Art Project:
Bringing the Art Experience to Those with Limited Mobility!
“In service of community, sparkling opportunities surprisingly arise.”
As a hospice volunteer, I challenged Miss Billie to regain enough strength in her failing limbs to allow us to visit the city museum. Loving art as much as she did, she gave it her best effort, yet could not surmount the toll of her years. So, like the mountain coming to the prophet, I began bringing pieces of the museum, gift shop postcards, to Miss Billie. Their power and beauty created a blessed respite from worldly trials and tribulations and celebration ensued! Art enlivens and nourishes, stimulates and sustains-indeed, some call it food for the soul. Our museums simultaneously protect, display, explain, and share these gems with a grateful public. Still, there are those individuals who have the desire but lack the mobility to visit our cultural repositories. Designed to work in harmony with museum outreach programs, community charities, and qualifying healthcare facilities, For Love & Art delivers the Art Experience to them. Consistent with their mission of community service, our partner museums have generously provided imagery of their popular works, with apt commentary. These vibrant images displayed in ArtBooks are then donated to area hospices, hospitals, Senior Living Communities, VA Medical Centers, and similar venues. Caregiver volunteers share the masterpieces of these great museums with their residents sparking conversation, reflection, recollection and celebration. Philanthropic organizations and individuals collaborate in our mission by endowing ArtBooks to worthy facilities in their communities. I invite you to take action now, help fulfill the project in your community and heighten the quality of life for hundreds of individuals who otherwise would not be able to share in the Art Experience... For Love & Art.
