Regina Holliday's Medical Advocacy Blog: November 2018

This is the eighth year of the Walking Gallery of Healthcare. We now number 464 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.

464 unique Walkers have joined the Gallery wearing 511 jackets. The Gallery has representatives on six 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. If you are interested in joining the Walking Gallery here is the info:http://reginaholliday.blogspot.com/2016/03/how-do-you-join-walking-gallery.html

If you would like to help fund the movement: https://www.gofundme.com/h2dsdwe4

Here is a short film about the movement: http://vimeo.com/80009527

The names of the Artists of The Walking Gallery followed by the quantity of jackets they have painted:

1. Regina Holliday, 436 jackets

2. Isaac Holliday, 2 jacket

3. Becca Price, 1 jacket

4. Miriam Cutelis, 1 jacket

5. Ess Lipczenko, 1 jacket

6. Ben Merrion, 1 jacket

7. Courtney Mazza, 8 jackets

8. Michele Banks, 1 jacket

9. Megan Mitchell,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, 1 jacket

15. Fred Trotter, 1 jacket

16. Leela, 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, 3 jackets

24. Jessica Nicula, 2 jackets

25. Nikai, 1 jacket
26. Deonm, 1 jacket

27. Daquane, 1 jacket

28. Olivia Dias, 1 jacket

29. Donnell Bonaparte, 1 jacket

30. Hazel F., 1 jacket

31. Rachel Fields, 1 jacket

32. Zoe Carr, 1 jacket

33. Thomas Richardson, 1 jacket

34. Tamela Mack, 1 jacket

35. Julia Anderson, 1 jacket
36. DJ Hamilton, 1 jacket
37. Jenn Toby, 1 jacket
38. Camala Walling, 1 jacket
39. Jordan Lanham, 1 jacket
40. Josh Miller, 1 jacket
41. Te'j Matthews, 1 jacket
42. Tony Zieger, 1 jacket
43. Shannon Shine, 2 jackets
44. Melody Smith. 4 jackets
45. Kay Seurat, 1 jacket
46. Danny McGinnest Jr., 5 jackets
47. Janice Lynn Schuster, 1 Jacket

48. Kathleen R. Drake, 1 jacket

49. Ileana Balcu, 1 jacket
50. Virginia Lorenzi, 1 jacket

For more information about joining the movement or to see all 500 plus jackets, please scroll to the bottom of this post.

The Walking Gallery members who had jackets painted in Year Eight:

511. "The Meaning of the Binder" a jacket for Stephen Scott