The Walking Gallery Year Three: June 5, 2013- June 16, 2014

This is the third year of the Walking Gallery of Healthcare.  We now number 296 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 , 296 unique Walkers have joined the Gallery wearing 328 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.

Year Three

328."Staying on the Path" a jacket for Tom Krohn

327. "Grapefruit" a jacket for Angela Radcliffe

326. "Reaching the 1/3" a jacket for Susan Cantrell

325."Questions" a jacket for Harlan Krumholz

324. "The Depth of Understanding" a jacket for Fred Masoudi

323. "Question, Measure, Personalize" a jacket for John Spertus

322. "Blended Hearts" a jacket for Melissa Ariate Jarvis

321."Superheroes" a jacket for Jane Englebright

320. "Hospitality" a jacket for Richard Corder

319.  "In Need of Traction on the Slippery Slope" a jacket for Mary Beth Navarra-Sirio

318. "Connected" a jacket for Todd Rowland

317. "Open Minds" a jacket for Amy Fellows


316.  "Shared Decision Makers" a jacket for Marilyn Mann



315. "Quantified Truth" a jacket for Rajiv Mehta

314. "UPP" a jacket for Melissa Stewart




313.  "Whole Cloth" a jacket designed and painted by Courtney Mazza and Regina Holliday for Christine Bienvenu. 


312.  "Six Until Me" a jacket for Kerri Sparling



311."The Hats we Wear" a jacket for Danny van Leeuwen 


310."Wounded Healer" a jacket for Susan Eller


309. "We Got a Mystery to Solve" a jacket for Mary Anne Sterling






308. "Loving Father" a jacket for Leila Samy




307. "This is Personal"  a jacket for Brian Dixon


306.  "Training the Brier" a jacket for Catherine Costa





305. "Pop Pup EMR" a jacket for Kim Ball



304. "The Secret Garden" a jacket for Getta Nayyar






303. "The Shepherdess Path" a jacket for Karen Hein 

302. "Rx Redux" a jacket for Loran Cook by artist Jessica Nicula

 301. "Surmounting the System" a jacket for Troy Abshire, Sr. Artist by artist Jessica Nicula

300. "The Rolodex" a jacket for Cathy Collet

299. "65 Roses" a jacket Erin Moore

 298. "Analyzing Whispers" a jacket for Suzanne Carter

297.  "Gown of Tears" a jacket for Amy Edgar

296.  "Regrounding" a jacket for Lori Marx-Rubiner

295. "Passing Notes" a jacket for Wendy White

294. "Fixing Isolation with mobile." a jacket worn and painted by Vera Rulon

293. "Happiness" a jacket for Mike Riz

292. "Pieces Falling Into Place" a jacket for Mary Cattolico Camp

291. "From Sacred Vows to Cash Cows" a jacket for Laura Kowlaczkowski

290. "Connector Man" a jacket for Jerry Matczak

289.  "Listen" a jacket for Catherine Wilhelmy

288.  "Beyond the Business Suit" a jacket for Gillian Cappiello

287. "Apples to Oranges' a jacket for Jim van den Beuken

286. "Threshold Choir" a jacket for Ellen Rose

285. "Growing This" a jacket for ken Dobuler

284. " Where it all Began" a jacket for Jim Kinsey

283. "The Path We Choose" a jacket for Marie-Michele Brodeur

282. "The Rod at Our Back" a jacket for Catherine Crock

281.  "Anything I Put My Mind To" a jacket for Cathy Desautels

280. "Missing You" a jacket for Carol Wahl

279."A Note at the Close" a jacket for Sue Ribaudo

278. "Presence" a jacket for Marie-Claude Poulin

277. "The Story of David and Annie" a jacket for Rob Sharrow

276. "The Pattern of a Life" a jacket for Kate Munger

275. "This is Love" a jacket for Susan Frampton

274."Leading the Way" a jacket for Alex Fair

273.  "Round and Round and Round" a jacket for Richard Anderson

272. "Zoe's Dream" our first honorary member of The Walking Gallery: Zoe

271. "Hospice Road" a jacket for Camea

270. "Naked Thoughts" a jacket for Dana Lewis

269. "Solving for X" a jacket for Catherine Rose

268. "Graduations" a jacket for Denise Theil

267. "Following Orders" a jacket for Phyllis Goetz

266. "Save Me" a jacket for Danielle Swift

265. "Hero's Journey" a jacket for Eileen Propp painted by Amy O'Hanlon

264. "Banksy Heals Max" a jacket painted and worn by Chris Chan

263. "Making Me Believe" a jacket for Tracy Walsh

262. "Drawing to a Close" a jacket for Alan Manning

261. "Helping Him to Fly" a jacket for Kimberly Gould Crawley

260. "Better Together" a jacket for Bruce Ramshaw

259. "Picket Line" a jacket for Steven F. Horowitz

258.  "The Landscape of a Life" a jacket for Donna Cryer

257. "Lab Power" a jacket for Lisa Donnarumma

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

The Artists of The Walking Gallery:

1. Regina Holliday 295 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 6 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

20. Adalyn 1 jacket
21. Chris Chan 1 jacket
22. Amy O'Hanlon 1 jacket
23. Vera Rulon 1 jacket
24. Jessica Nicula 2 jackets

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:

http://vimeo.com/24857924

Read: http://reginaholliday.blogspot.com/2011/04/walking-gallery.html 

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

http://reginaholliday.blogspot.com/2011/06/welcome-to-walking-gallery.html

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 at least 2-3 times a 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 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. This movement is spread through social media you will need to use facebook, twitter, 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. 

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?