Face sheet

How Can You have a Face-Sheet Without a Face?

Solving Medical Quandaries Through Story and Art.

A patient activist perspective by Regina Holliday

The power of a face.

The power of a name.

The power of a story.

“During this hospital stay, how often was your pain well controlled?”

Art can provide a face to cold clinical statistics.

Art. That’s for kids, right?

The lessons learned in kid auction art:

“The face of my child is on that painting, I must have it…”

Art can make clinical spaces “pretty.”But as any child can tell you,it can be dangerous to enter candy houses.

Art can be used to

mask the rotten apple or it can be used to

reveal it.

Healthcare is not Rainbows and Butterflies.It is real human faces…

Are you ready to jump?

Are you ready to change the way you think about art within medicine?

Writing on the Wall.

(or what one widow can do with a borrowed ladderan available wall and $500.00 in paint.)

They can Write it on a Wall.

How can an outsider artist,send a message to us all?

Painting Advocacy meets

Social Media

Street art is truly the first global art movement fueled by the Internet. –Marc and Sara Schiller, Wooster Collective, 2010

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.” ~Aristotle

This is the painting 73 cents.

This is the vital patient story, the social history , the sacred heart of Fred’s

ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD.

And this painting, like the internet, advocates 24 hours a day and you cannot tell a wall to shut up.

“Shouldn’t Art stick to what it does best- the delivery of pleasure?

And forget about being a Paintbrush warrior. Or, is it when the bombs are dropping we find out what art is really for?”

-Power of Art by Simon Schama

Art Advocacy and its affect on health policyIn the institution or in governance

Art can compare hard data to soft data and apples to apples.

Prior legislation can inspire the art that explains the future of health.

ADACivil RightsOrphan Drug Act HIPAA

Meaningful Use in a Diner…..

Why not paint about the need for better hygiene practices?

Sometimes “blowing a gasket” leads to the best kind of collaborative disruption.

Crowd-funding exists to make the impossible possible….

You can crowd fund Advocacy

Patient Scholarships

Why can’t we ask Hallmarkto make hospice cards?

Would that help us talk about end of life?

You can use images to inspire better communication

#HospiceCards

Become a reality

Join a Walking Wall of Patient Stories

The Walking Gallery

Patients spend much of their days living in

Negative space.Instead of being the subjectof attention

We are often the space around The image of medicine.

The back ground The prop

Street Art:The more stickers that are out there the more important it seems. The more important it seems, the more people want to know what it is.The more they ask they ask each other.

It gains real power from perceived power. -Shepard Fairey

We can redefine expectations of the role of art in medicine at every hospital, clinic and conference.

Let Patients Speak

Sometimes one voice,One face,Can change the world.

Are you ready ?

Join us and when you turn your back, you are facing us all the more.

@ReginaHolliday