Foundation for Hospital Art

A global non-profit dedicated to brightening hospitals through art with the participation of volunteers around the world. Over 1,000,000 volunteers and patients have united in an effort to create over 44,000 paintings for over 4,000 hospitals in 195 countries. We welcome your love and support in our mission of compassion through art. The initial concept of painting for people in hospitals was born in 1975 when John Feight volunteered in Northside Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. The idea to establish the Foundation for Hospital Art developed through years of painting in hospitals and seeing the comfort art gave to the patients, medical staff and visitors. Out of this experience has evolved the firm belief that nothing a hospital can provide in the way of technological and scientific marvels is as supportive as an atmosphere of compassion, both human and aesthetic, in these institutions where we all must spend time - to give birth, to be healed - or for some, to die. The traditional...