This is the third year of the Walking Gallery of Healthcare. We now number 230 members walking around the world with patient story Paintings on our backs.
This "walking wall" is changing minds and opening hearts. They are attending medical conferences where often there isn’t a patient speaker on the dais or in the audience. They are providing a patient voice, and by doing so, are changing the conversation.
An artist or artists will interview medical professionals and lay individuals to form a patient centric narrative. The artist will then create representational imagery and paint that picture story upon the business jacket of the provider of the narrative account. The provider of the patient story aka “Walker” will wear the jacket to medical conferences and events in order to disseminate the patient story to a large group of policy minded attendees and to represent the individual patient voice in venues where they are underrepresented. Further, both artist and Walker will support the spread of the story and image via social media.
As of August 2013, 230 unique Walkers have joined the Gallery wearing 256 jackets. The Gallery has representatives on five continents, but the majority of Walkers reside in the US. One artist creates the majority of the art, but new artists are joining and currently make up 10% of content creation within of the Walking Gallery. The Gallery is promoted heavily on twitter, facebook and personal blogs. Its widening appeal within the health conference community is creating a new space for patients at such events.
The Artists of The Walking Gallery:
1. Regina Holliday 230 jackets
2. Isaac Holliday 6 yrs, 1 jacket
3. Becca Price, 1 jacket
4. Miriam Cutelis, 1 jacket
5. Ess Lipczenko, 1 jacket
6. Ben Merrion 1 jacket
7. Courtney Mazza 5 jackets
8. Michele Banks 1 jacket
9. Megan Mitchell 15 yrs 1 jacket
10. Robert J. Filley 3 jackets
11. Anita Samarth 1 jacket
12. Mary Welch Higgins 2 jackets
13. Richard Sachs 2 jackets
14. Jonah Daniel 5yrs 1 jacket
15. Fred Trotter 1 jacket
16. Leela 7yrs 1 jacket
17. Gayle Schrier Smith 1 jacket
18. Moira Simms 1 jacket
19. Joan Holliday 1 jacket
17. Gayle Schrier Smith 1 jacket
18. Moira Simms 1 jacket
19. Joan Holliday 1 jacket
20. Adalyn 1 jacket
Year Three
256. "Silent No More" a jacket for Alice Mwongera
!["Silent No More"a jacket for Alice Mwongera]()
255. "My Chickens" a jacket worn and painted by Adalyn
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254."Fly Space" a jacket for Colin Hung
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253. "The Highest Double" a jacket for Ian Eslick
256. "Silent No More" a jacket for Alice Mwongera
255. "My Chickens" a jacket worn and painted by Adalyn
254."Fly Space" a jacket for Colin Hung
253. "The Highest Double" a jacket for Ian Eslick
252. "Shift" a jacket for Nick Van Terheyden
If you would like to join the Gallery please find further instructions below the pictures of jackets of year three.
Here is a short film on the DC inaugural Gallery event:
to understand the origin of the idea.
http://reginaholliday.blogspot.com/2011/06/walkers-oath.html to understand the sacred nature of this path
To view the jackets in year one 1-162
To view the jackets of year two 163-251
http://reginaholliday.blogspot.com/2012/06/walking-gallery-walks-on-year-two.html
Logistics of the Walking Gallery: What you need to do to be a member:
1. Promise that you will wear this jacket to conferences and public events in order to spread awareness of the power of the patient voice.
2. Send a business jacket. Please do not send jackets made of seersucker, corduroy, knit, denim, leather or stretch fabric, as they are hard to paint on. Also this is a business jacket on purpose, we are painting on the “uniform” of the conference attendee. Fabrics that work well are poly-blends, linen, cotton and wool. Also you might want to by a jacket a size larger than you usually do as the painting will stiffen the back and make it harder to close the buttons.
3. Tell me your patient story or patient-centered concept that is the center of why you work in health and medicine. Please send via email with some pictures if possible of yourself or the people in your story. If you don't want to provide a picture, that’s okay, I have a vivid imagination. Also please print it out and send with jacket so I can keep track of jackets and their stories.
4. Artists can participate by painting their own jacket or another's or both.
5. I am using Twitter hash tag to link us all together so please tweet about your jacket appearances under #TheWalkingGallery
6. You are free to use the image in your own advocacy mission; I also retain the right to reproduce the image for advocacy purposes.
7. Donations are welcome to offset the cost of paint and shipping, but are not required and you cannot buy a jacket painting. You are joining a movement and this is a sacred oath to walk the walk and spread the word.
Welcome to the Gallery.
Any questions?