Art Restart Podcast: Sherrill Roland
When artist Sherrill Roland returned to grad school at University of North Carolina
at Greensboro after nearly a year in jail for a crime he didn’t commit, he found himself
haunted by the invisible weight of his experience.
Determined to confront how incarceration had reshaped his body, psyche and place in the world, he turned that burden into "The Jumpsuit Project," a performance in which he wore an orange prison uniform on campus every day for a year.
In this interview, Roland speaks about the fear and necessity of donning the orange jumpsuit, the emotional toll of transforming personal pain into public conversation, and how his practice continues to evolve toward accessibility, dialogue and compassion.