Super excited to announce: Participatory Arts for Incarcerated People with Dementia: A Pathway to Personhood, my research paper co-written with Dan Kaplan and Liza London will be published in the fall issue of The International Journal for Creativity Inside (IJCI).
The paper chronicles my work from 2014 to 2017 with the Unit for the Cognitively Impaired at Fishkill Correctional Facility. The prison is about 70 miles north of New York City.
Fishkill is one of the only prisons that address how to best navigate living with dementia while incarcerated.
The International Journal for Creativity Inside (IJCI), established in 2025, is a not-for-profit, open-access journal dedicated to exploring and promoting the role of creativity in prisons and jails worldwide through a cross-disciplinary perspective. Its mission, in brief, is to highlight, support, and expand the value of creativity within carceral systems to people in prison and to society.
Toward this end, IJCI will advance knowledge and public discourse on the role of creativity in carceral institutions globally by publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly research and practice-based explorations along with curated, insightful perspectives, creative work, and book reviews related to artistic, literary, and other creative endeavors within carceral settings.
IJCI will be freely available online, and its operations will be sustained through volunteer editors.
The artwork is: A Crack in C Yard’s Curb Taken Over by Nature, 2025 by Timothy, watercolor and ink. Courtesy of Prison Arts Collective. From the artist: The curb reads ‘Out of Bounds and Restricted Area’. This is a symbol of the fact that everything man makes is transitory, but nature left alone regenerates itself.