For Love and Art

Specialties

We are a 501©3 organization that brings the Art Experience to those with limited mobility. Our commitment is that all people embrace beauty, joy and magic of life through the power of art!

We do this by endowing Virtual Museum ArtBooks to hospices, retirement communities, hospitals, and similar communities. Custom-​dedicated according to donor specifications, these digital ArtBooks contain over 1,000 vivid artworks from our ten prestigious partner museums. Virtual Museum ArtBooks are used as tools by volunteers and caregivers to engage people to reflect, recollect, and celebrate life. Sharing art eases fear and loneliness and other end of life tribulations; it immediately bolsters spirits and liberates people from the ugliness of everyday life.

Without donations, we are but a good idea. Please consider «Adopting a Hospice» today and furnishing a healthcare community in memory or honor of a loved one. Virtual Museum ArtBooks are $ 500 each, tax-​deductible, with volume discounts.

History

Established in 2010.

For Love & Art started as a project in a leadership course by Mark Lombard, who blended his passion for art with his service to community as a hospice volunteer. Mark was impressed by how his patient, Miss Billie, reacted to souvenir postcards from local museums; in the moment, she was young again, beautiful, and vital again, free from her everyday worries and fears. Mark dubbed this phenomenon «the Art Experience, being made real.» His project, bringing this Art Experience to those who could not visit museums, was further defined by Katherine Moloney, Art Educator at The Carter Museum, who suggested using digital frames to convey the experience simply, and at relatively low cost. Lombard then approached museums coast to coast and asked them to donate imagery from their collections to populate the ArtBook, and ten agreed to partner with him and this mission: The Carter, AIC, Crystal Bridges, The DMA, The Getty, The Kimbell, The Meadows at SMU, The Met, The NGA, and The Phillips.

Meet the Manager

Mark L.

Manager

Mark B.W. Lombard was born and bred in rural Lancaster County, PA, his father a doctor and mother a community servant. Graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in 1978, Lombard joined his father’s practice in hyperbaric medicine, during which time he would travel to NYC and DC to photograph celebrities with his friend Gary Lee Boas. At 30, in search of a career, Lombard accepted a temporary position as Admissions Officer at Temple University School of Dentistry. Surprisingly proficient, he became Director of Admissions the following year, and served as such for 16 year. During this time, Lombard discovered a passion for both art and bridge. Partnering with Mark Hupert, a young medical fellow at Penn, their «brilliant partnership» resulted in multiple national and local victories. Their bridge partnership became life partnership, and Lombard followed Hupert to the Metroplex. In 2007, Lombard discovered hospice work and was named 2013 Volunteer of the Year by TNMHO for FL&A.