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Sherrill Roland’s convictions in a courtroom, on four misdemeanors, were later overturned at a retrial. But they focused Roland’s personal conviction to use art that both helps him process and heal from his experiences while engaging an unwitting public about certain fears and stereotypes about the convicted.
“My body needed to be a part of it, I needed to be involved in the engagement,” Roland said.
With what he calls the Jumpsuit Project, Roland chose to wear an orange jumpsuit, like the kind associated with inmates, wherever he appeared and traveled on the campus of UNC-Greensboro. Roland did this throughout the 2016-17 school year as he pursued his master’s degree in art.
Frieze New York Returns Live, Bringing Hope and Precautions
Now a hybrid affair, booths at the Shed at Hudson Yards will be home to optimistic dealers and fresh art.
The Shed, the arts center in Hudson Yards on the west side of Manhattan (at center), is this year’s home of Frieze New York. Credit.Nina Westervelt for The New York Times
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Until March 2020, major art fairs were primarily live events you had to be there, as they say. Then fairs sensibly went virtual during the pandemic, with online offerings instead of rows of booths under a tent or in an exhibition hall.
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An adaption of artist jackie sumell’s “Solitary Gardens” at UC Santa Cruz. The garden plots are meant to represent a solitary confinement cell, taking up the same 6-by-9-foot space. The plants, which are selected remotely by an incarcerated person in solitary confinement, only grow in the spaces where humans would usually be able to walk in the cell. Photo: R.R. Jones
In the 2017 book “How To Do Politics With Art,” Lilian Mathieu describes how the arts play an important role in protest.
“It provides material and symbolic resources,” the French sociologist writes. Art “contributes to movement framing, mobilizes constituencies, sensitizes the broader public, and produces social change by renewing cultural traditions.”