The Walking Gallery Year 6
By Regina Holliday, Patient Advocate, Founder, The Walking Gallery
Twitter: @ReginaHolliday
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This is the sixth year of the Walking Gallery of Healthcare. We now number over 400 members walking around the world with patient story paintings on our backs. We are attending medical conferences where often there isn’t a patient speaker on the dais or in the audience. We are providing a patient voice, and by doing so, are changing the conversation.
An artist or artists interviews medical professionals and lay individuals to form a patient centric narrative. The artist then creates 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” wears 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 2016, 401 unique Walkers have joined the Gallery wearing 439 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 frequently 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.
The names of the Artists of The Walking Gallery followed by the quantity of jackets they have painted:
- Regina Holliday, 381 jackets
- Isaac Holliday, 1 jacket
- Becca Price, 1 jacket
- Miriam Cutelis, 1 jacket
- Ess Lipczenko, 1 jacket
- Ben Merrion, 1 jacket
- Courtney Mazza, 8 jackets
- Michele Banks, 1 jacket
- Megan Mitchell,1 jacket
- Robert J. Filley, 3 jackets
- Anita Samarth, 1 jacket
- Mary Welch Higgins, 2 jackets
- Richard Sachs, 2 jackets
- Jonah Daniel, 1 jacket
- Fred Trotter, 1 jacket
- Leela, 1 jacket
- Gayle Schrier Smith, 1 jacket
- Moira Simms, 1 jacket
- Joan Holliday, 1 jacket
- Adalyn, 1 jacket
- Chris Chan, 1 jacket
- Amy O’Hanlon, 1 jacket
- Vera Rulon, 1 jacket
- Jessica Nicula, 2 jackets
- Nikai, 1 jacket
- Deonm, 1 jacket
- Daquane, 1 jacket
- Olivia Dias, 1 jacket
- Donnell Bonaparte, 1 jacket
- Hazel F., 1 jacket
- Rachel Fields, 1 jacket
- Zoe Carr, 1 jacket
- Thomas Richardson, 1 jacket
- Tamela Mack, 1 jacket
- Julia Anderson, 1 jacket
- DJ Hamilton, 1 jacket
- Jenn Toby, 1 jacket
- Camala Walling, 1 jacket
- Jordan Lanham, 1 jacket
- Josh Miller, 1 jacket
- Te’j Matthews, 1 jacket
- Tony Zieger, 1 jacket
- Shannon Shine, 2 jackets
- Melody Smith Jones. 2 jacket
- Kay Seurat, 1 jacket
More information about joining the movement here or to see all 400 plus jackets.
This article was originally published on Regina Holliday’s Medical Advocacy Blog and is republished here with permission.
