Creative Confinement
About this comic
“Creative Confinement” tells the story of working as an art therapist in a forensic psychiatric hospital when COVID-19 shut down the art studio. Everyone in the hospital community works together to sew masks for the hospital and the outside community by demonstrating how art has played an essential role in bringing people together, although apart.”
Artist
Trilce Garcia
Trilce García Cosavalente is a Peruvian visual artist and graphic designer intrigued by the power of comics to seamlessly create safe spaces within the diverse communities she serves. She is the author of WANTED: A Hope for Illari and co-author of WARMIMASIY, which chronicles in comic format the challenges, activism, and intergenerational life plans of Quechua women. Her comic Surviving Pain, which details her experience with vulvodynia, has been reviewed and presented at medical summits and used in communication courses. Driven by a desire to spread messages of kindness and humor, Trilce is constantly thinking of new ways to conquer the world from the small Finnish town where she lives with her family.
Storyteller
Jaimie Peterson
Jaimie Lee Peterson, MAAT, ATR LPC received a BFA in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute and MAAT at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been an art therapist at a Texas forensic psychiatric facility for 15 years. Jaimie’s research interests are creative peer-mentorship, stigma reduction through art, vocational rehabilitation in the creative arts therapies, and graphic medicine. When she is not working or teaching, she is in her home studio writing and making comics.
