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Love & Art Children’s Foundation

Founded in 2003 in Los Angeles, California, the Love & Art Children’s Foundation was born out of the desire to reach out to children in need and to offer them, through the arts, a way of expression, empowerment and hope.

The foundation brings its unique art workshop program to underprivileged groups of children. Working with an artist, each child has the opportunity to create a large scale, mixed media work of art. Time, attention and care help the children open up and use their vivid imaginations. The resulting art collections are a vibrant testament to the spirit of creativity and youth.

To share the beauty and power of the children's art, Love & Art organizes exhibitions around their creations and their stories. Through the exhibitions these young artists receive recognition for their accomplishments.

Some of Love & Art’s past highlights include projects with children afflicted with cancer in Paris and with foster youth in Los Angeles. These art collections titled: L'Enfant et l'Art and Enchanted... exhibited, respectively, at Les Arts Décoratif, in the Louvre Palace and Christie's Beverly Hills. Love & Art raised $600,000USD from art auctions, conducted by Christie's, that followed each exhibit. 100% of all proceeds directly benefited the organizations providing services for those children, and enabled these young artists to give back to their own communities.

Love & Art Children’s Foundation has built Casa da Criança Amor & Arte, a children's art and educational center in an impoverished neighborhood in Jataí, Goiás, Brasil, that opens on July 21, 2012. In the fall of 2012, the Love & Art Home of Hope will open in Belarus under the supervision of Adi Roche's Chernobyl Children's Project International.