This is the fourth year of the Walking Gallery of Healthcare. We now number 310 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 July 2014 , 310 unique Walkers have joined the Gallery wearing 342 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 the movement. 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.
For more information about joining the movement please scroll to the bottom of this post.
For more information about joining the movement please scroll to the bottom of this post.
Year Four:
342. "Threshold" a jacket painted and worn by Julia Anderson
341. "The Golden Kidney" a jacket painted by Tamela Mack
340. "The Outside In" a jacket painted by Zoe Carr and Thomas Richardson for Zoe Carr
339. "Release" a jacket for Lauree Ostrofsky
338. "Rainbow Road" painted by Courtney Mazza and Worn by Abdur-Rahim Rahmaan
337. "On the Other Side of the Wall" a jacket painted and worn by Rachel Fields
336. "Sorry For Your Loss" a jacket painted and worn by Hazel F.
335. "Donnell 2" a jacket painted and worn by Donnell Bonaparte
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334. "Decisions" a jacket painted by Olivia Dias for Michael Dias
333. "War" a jacket worn and painted by Daquane
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332. "Red Phoenix"
331. "Rainbow Phoenix" a jacket worn and painted by Nikai
300. "Choices" a jacket for Karen Linder-Staubs
329. "The Foundation of My Life" a jacket for Kathy Nieder
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The Artists of The Walking Gallery:
1. Regina Holliday 298 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 7 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
21. Chris Chan 1 jacket
22. Amy O'Hanlon 1 jacket
23. Vera Rulon 1 jacket
21. Chris Chan 1 jacket
22. Amy O'Hanlon 1 jacket
23. Vera Rulon 1 jacket
24. Jessica Nicula 2 jackets
25. Nikai
26. Red Phoenix Artist
26. Red Phoenix Artist
27. Daquane
28. Olivia Dias
29. Donnell Bonaparte
30. Hazel F.
31. Rachel Fields
32. Zoe Carr
33. Thomas Richardson
34. Tamela Mack
35. Julia Anderson
If you are interested in joining the Walking Gallery here is the info:
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
To view jackets of year three 252-328
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 at least 2-3 times per year 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 life/patient story, your patient-centered concept that is the center of why you work in health and medicine. Please include personal details of your life so I can more fully realize your image. You can tell me which story elements you do not wish to publically disclose in text, but it does help to know the underlying experiences and conditions which are the source of your mission. 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. This movement is spread and organized through social media. You will need to use twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc. to support the mission. 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 and write about your mission in areas you are comfortable with disclosing.
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.
(If you like the health activism work I do and want to support it in a sustaining way you can donate to my @gittip account: https://www.gittip.com/ReginaHolliday/ but it is in no way required. )
Welcome to the Gallery.
Any questions?