Join the Ackland in celebrating the newest installation in our ART& space, Processing Systems: Bonding by Sherrill Roland, on view from August 9, 2024, through July 13, 2025.

Sherrill Roland (born 1984) is a North Carolina-based interdisciplinary artist whose practice deals with ideas of innocence, identity, and community; his works reimagine those notions’ social and political implications in the context of the American criminal justice system. In Processing Systems: Bonding by Sherrill Roland, he repurposes the United States Federal and State Correctional Identification Numbers into a set of artmaking parameters through drawing with system-based materials, including sudoku puzzles and number place games. By combining groups of correctional IDs of individuals and their family members, he presents conceptual numerical portraits and family trees.

During the 2nd Friday ArtWalk, we will be celebrating with drinks and snacks. Roland will be onsite to talk with attendees, as well as make some informal remarks and answer the crowds questions about his artwork around 7PM.

Join us for a evening honoring Sherrill Roland and welcoming the installation to our community.

RSVP is required. Each person RSVPing may claim a drink ticket (non-alcoholic or alcoholic); ID will be checked at the bar.