SIGHTINGS WRONGFULLY
CONVICTED N O RTH CA R O L I NA A RTIST AWA R D ED 2020
S O U T H ER N PR IZE Morrisville-based artist Sherrill Roland received the 2020 Southern Prize from the South Arts organization. Roland’s work is heavily influenced by a wrongful conviction and the subsequent threeyear incarceration it resulted in. His mission is to address innocence, identity and community, and Photo courtesy of Sherrill Roland
reimagine their social and political implications in the context of the American criminal justice system. Roland holds a bachelor’s in fine arts in design and a master’s in fine arts in studio art from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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