COLLECTIVE WITNESS

Collective Witness brings together artists Sheryl Oring and  Sherrill Roland, whose work reflects on democracy, justice, and freedom. Presented by SE CLT Gallery as part of the national Fall of Freedom initiative, this exhibition stands as a testament to the power of art to bear witness and to imagine an equitable future.

Through works that are both intimate and public, Oring and Roland transform lived experience and individual testimony into works that urge an engaged citizenry to imagine its way toward true freedom. 

In different ways, Oring and Roland make visible the marks that power leaves behind. Oring’s work arises from an ongoing dialogue with the public sphere. Roland’s emerges from the personal experience of confinement. What binds them is a shared insistence on presence, and the belief that to be seen, remembered, and recorded is itself an act of freedom.