Art and Incarceration: Artist Talk and Panel Discussion with Sherrill Roland
January 26 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Free
in partnership with the Ackland Art Museum
Using his piece Processing Systems: Bonding as a jumping off point, this artist talk and panel discussion with Sherrill Roland will explore artistic expression, the American carceral system, and the visualization of data.
PANELISTS
Kylie Seltzer, art historian and Zietlow Postdoctoral Fellow, Carolina Public Humanities
Bharati Zvara, Associate Professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health (MCH), Gillings School of Global Public Health
Moderated by Lauren Turner, Ackland Art Museum Associate Curator for Contemporary Art and Special Projects
DETAILS
DATE & TIME: Sunday, January 26, 2025 | 2:00 pm
COST: Free and open to the public. Advance registration required and available on the Ackland website.
LOCATION: Ackland Art Museum
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Sherrill Roland is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at UNC Chapel Hill. He is an interdisciplinary artist who deals with ideas of innocence, identity, and community. For over three years, Roland worked through the American criminal justice system (including his arrest, trials, and imprisonment) to establish his innocence against a crime for which he was later exonerated. As vehicles for both self-reflection and emotional release, his works explore the social and political implications behind the structures and codes of the criminal justice system.
Born in 1984 in Asheville, North Carolina, Sherrill Roland studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2018) and earned his MFA and BFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2017 and 2009). Roland is the recipient of the Gibbes Museum of Art’s 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art (2023); a Creative Capital Award (2021); the South Arts Southern Grand Prize & State Fellowship (2020); and was an Art for Justice Grantee (2020).
