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. "It was a very dramatic, traumatic experience for me, and it took a while for me to get comfortable giving up this type of information or experience just as easily or as up front as I tell people I'm from Asheville," he recalled. "Soon as I was able to expose this big burden, that's it--the weight's off there now

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