FOR LOVE & ART

In 2010, Founder Mark Lombard combined his passion for art with community service as a hospice volunteer. Working with Miss Billie, a hospice patient, Mark shared museum post cards to provide therapeutic engagement and improve the quality of her life. Encouraged by the positive response from Miss Billie, Mark began offering art presentations to other patients and senior groups. In 2013, For Love & Art received 501(c)(3) status, and Mark began recruiting volunteers to help deliver art presentations to seniors and the terminally ill. He also began forming partnerships with local, national,
and international museums.
The program that was created by Mark is formally called “Celebrating the Art Experience” (CAE). The CAE program is delivered daily to senior facilities across North Texas and is an hour-long therapeutic engagement that creatively and effectively elevates the psychosocial, cognitive, spiritual, and physical quality of life for those with limited or no access to this quality of life enhancing experiences, bringing a sense of well-being into diverse communities of seniors living with physical and mental barriers.
Serving as performance artists, our “Art Angel” Docents showcase imagery from one of our 31 partner museums, which include, local museums the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Sid Richardson Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Kimbell Art Museum, and Meadows Museum, national partners include Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, The Getty, and the Art Institute of Chicago, and international partners Israel Museum in Jerusalem, National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Belvedere Palace Museum in Vienna, the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. Each museum partner has agreed to a partnership at no cost to For Love & Art .