The Walking Gallery Walks On: Year Two June 4, 2012- June 5, 2013

Paint and patients, pills and policy all come together within The Walking Gallery of Healthcare.  This walking wall of 226 individuals who wear personal patient narrative paintings on their backs 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.

While creating national health policy medical professionals and government officials are often more reliant on aggregate data sets, bar charts, graphs and statistics, rather than the whole picture of care, the personal patient narrative and the individual human face.

The Walking Gallery movement hopes to diversify the source content that is used to create the foundation for patient centered care policy, by infusing art imagery depicting a unique patient history or personal story.

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 June 2013, 226 unique Walkers have joined the Gallery wearing 251 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 226 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

If you would like to join the Gallery please find further instructions below the pictures of jackets of year two.

Year Two

251. "The Golden Egg" a jacket for Pat Salber




250. "The Incredible Fred" a jacket for Fred Trotter




249. "Vets with Pets" Frankie's jacket painted by Courtney Mazza



248. "Trinity" a jacket for Kym Martin



247. "Wellspring" a jacket by Susan Hull


246. "Gleaning" a jacket for Elaine O'Bleness



245. "All My Boys" a jacket for Joan Holliday.  Painted by Regina and Joan Holliday.



244. "Hydrate" a jacket for Taylor Martin


243. "Diabetesbusters"a jacket for IsaacHolliday



242. "The Keeper of the Match" a jacket for Jo Hamilton



241. "Eyes on the Prize" a jacket for Dominique Beatty



240. "Walk-Ins Welcome" a jacket painted and worn by Moira Simms




239."May I have this dance." a jacket for Martin J. Hatlie



238. "Enjoying the Ride" a jacket for Lance Manning



237. "Completing the Masterpiece"a jacket for Vera Rulon



236.  "Tally Marks" a jacket for Ken Congdon



235. "Lean into the Sorrow" a jacket for Coletta L. Dorado



234. "Stair Steps" a jacket Tom Evans



233. "Under Pressure" a jacket for Gina Neff




232. The Gamification of Healthcare a jacket for Nick Dawson




231. "Caduceus Deconstructed" a jacket for Randi Oster




230. "Hemispheres" a jacket for Gonzalo Bacigalupe






229. "Right Side Up" a jacket for Fred Trotter by artist Richard Sachs



228."You're going to need a bigger binder." a jacket for Jon Francke



227. "Twice Broken Heart" a jacket for Shelley Cohen Konrad



226. "Quantified Smile" a jacket for Katie McCurdy




225."Patchwork Health" a jacket for Mary Griskewicz




224. "What we lose along the way." a jacket for Amy Gleason




223. "Bursting from Within" a jacket for Eric Topol




222. "Hospice Cards" a jacket for Emily Shaw




221. "The Kastner Rose" a jacket for Kathy Kastner




220. "What is a hero?" a jacket for Alice Hughley



219. "The Gravity of the Situation" a jacket for Esther Dyson



218. "Generations" a jacket for Natrice Rese




217. "The Rising Son" a jacket for Amy Birney



216. "Don't tell me to zip it." a jacket for Steven Baker




215. "Hope" a jacket for Jan Oldenburg




214. "The Sleeper" a jacket for Emily Hackel




213. "Embracing Epsilon" a jacket for Karen MacDonald





212. "A New Refrain" a jacket for Andrew Spong




211. "Is she okay?" a jacket for Jess Jacobs




210. "In Search of Balance"a jacket for Deven McGraw




209. "To Ride This Ride" a jacket for Alicia Staley





208. "Aeiou" a jack for Mark Scrimshire



207. "Hospital for my Children" a jacket painted and worm by Gayle Schrier Smith



206. "Little Mirrors"  a jacket for Amanda Greene



205. "#Cinderblocks" Regina Holliday



204. "MIB" Regina Holliday



203.  "Taken"  a jacket for Kath Mazella


202. "A Prescription for Zoe" a jacket for Larry Chu


201. "Monumental Change" a jacket for Michael Seid


200. "Wind of Change" a jacket for Jamie Inman



199. "Metamorphosis"  a jacket for Liza Bernstein


198. "Don't Make a Fuss" a jacket for Carolyn Thomas



196.  "Balancing Act" a jacket for Brian Carter



195.  "Fly"  a jacket for Kate Cartwright-Knodel



194.  "Partners" a jacket for Teresa Titus-Howard

193.  Be Ahead of All Parting/The End Ahead a jacket for Bart Windrum



192. "Blood and Tears" a jacket for Martine Ehrenclou




191. "The Three Stages of Meaningful Use" a jacket for Farzad Mostashari




190. "Uniting the Field of Care" a jacket for Kristen Andrews




189. "Finals" a jacket for Peter Levin




188. "The Signs" a jacket for Jari Holland Buck



187. "Grief" a jacket for Ann Becker-Scutte




186."NeuCare" a jacket for Ryan Neuhofel



185. "The Ood Among Us" a jacket for Jake Miles-McLean





184. "After Hours" a jacket for Steven Davidson

183. "On Special Days" a jacket for Josh Rubin



182. "Bone Black" a jacket for Catherine Fairchild




181. "Reaching Out" a jacket for Erica Hanson Brown



180. "The Heart of the Matter" a jacket for Carolyn Der Vartanian


179. "Invasion of the C.Diff." a jacket for Pat Mastors


178. "Paper Chaos" a jacket for Michelle F. Davis


177.  "All of My Children." a jacket for Mindy Schwartz-Brown


176. "The White Wizard" a jacket for Heather Leslie


175.  "Diabetes Mine" a jacket for Amy Tenderich



174. "The Right Thing" a jacket for Lissa


173. "Access" a jacket for Sanya


172. "Becoming" a jacket for Sam Bruinewoud


171. "Inked" a jacket for Louise Schaper



170. "Independence Day" a jacket for Julia Hallisy



169. "Folding" jacket for Fluckinger



168. "Virtual Hospice" a jacket for Colleen Young

167. "I am e." a jacket for Gangadhar Sulkunte


166. "Breathe" a jacket for Karen E. Blair


165. "If I only had a heart." a jacket for Dennis Wagner


164. "Upside Down and Backwards" a jacket for Michelle Litchman

163. "The Expert Patient" a jacket for Roni Zeiger

If you are interested in joining the Walking Gallery here is the info:

Watch:

Here is wonderful short film by Eidolan Films on the DC Inaugural Walking Gallery event June 7, 2011

Read:

To understand the origin of the idea.

To understand the sacred nature of this path

To view all of the jackets 1-162 painted in the first year.

Logistics of the Walking Gallery:  What you need to do to be a member: 

1.  Promise that you will wear this jacket to other conferences and events in order to spread awareness of the power of the Patient Voice.

2.  Send a business jacket so I can paint your image. 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 another's you wish to depict 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.

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 we also have a page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheWalkingGalleryHC

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.  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?