Patient activist and artist Regina Holliday has a home for her Walking Gallery of Healthcare.
Friday, Holliday closed on a house in rural Grantsville, Maryland, that will serve as a center to promote wellness and healing through art.
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To be named Salt & Pepper Studios, the building will include classroom and gallery space, plus rooms for visiting artists or patients. It will serve as host for Cinderblocks, the annual Walking Gallery retreat that Holliday has likened to “Burning Man meets healthcare.”
The Walking Gallery is a series of paintings illustrating difficult healthcare experiences that each participant wears on the back of a jacket to spark conversations about the nation’s dysfunctional healthcare industry. To date, it includes 408 jackets — 353 painted by Holliday herself — and 372 “walkers,” she said.
The property, in a tiny mountain town off Interstate 68 that’s closer to Pittsburgh than to Baltimore or Washington, features a main level with a living room and dining room that flow together. “It’s a perfect gallery space,” Holliday said. She will decorate it with some of her larger paintings that don’t fit on jackets.
The back yard and large deck that overlooks it can host events when the weather allows. Holliday expects to build space for art classes in the walk-out basement. She might also hold Walking Gallery painting parties there.
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She hopes to have the place ready for this year’s Cinderblocks in May. “So many people from the Walking Gallery will be there,” Holliday said. Later, Holliday plans to rehab the three upstairs bedrooms to house visitors.
This house actually was Holliday’s second choice for Salt & Pepper Studios. A MedStartr campaign in late 2014 raised $19,550, far short of the original goal of $75,000, so she downsized from the five-bedroom vintage home she originally wanted.
A current crowdfunding effort has brought in another $9,650.
Another party outbid Holliday for this house last year, but could not come up with the financing, Holliday said. As soon as it came back on the market, she snapped it up.
Photo: Regina Holliday
