SHERYL A. ORING

Sheryl Oring has an interdisciplinary practice that incorporates both old and new media to tell stories, examine public opinion and foster open exchange. Her artwork is interactive and process-based, relying on public and community input for its ultimate manifestation as performances, installations, sculptures, photo and video works and books. Oring’s work has been shown at the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Dubai; Encuentro in São Paolo, Brazil; Art Prospect festival in St. Petersburg, Russia; the Jewish Museum Berlin; Bryant Park in New York; the 01SJ Biennial in San Jose, CA; the Boston Public Library; and the McCormick Freedom Museum in Chicago. She has received grants from the Franklin Furnace Fund; Creative Capital Foundation; and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Oring recently completed a public art commission at the San Diego International Airport and is currently working on a public art commission at the Tampa International Airport. Her book, Activating Democracy: The I Wish to Say Project, was published by Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press in Fall 2016. EDUCATION

2011 M.F.A. in Visual Art: University of California, San Diego. 1987 B.S. in Journalism: University of Colorado, Boulder. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE 2011- Associate Professor, School of Art, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. present Responsible for teaching a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses in the School of Art’s New Media and Design curriculum and in the Lloyd International Honors College. Courses include: • Introduction to Socially Engaged Art •Art and Democracy • Art and Politics •New Media and Design Capstone •Perspectives on Contemporary Art • Art in Odd Places •Art in Response to War •Introduction to Digital Design •Graduate Seminar: In Search •Introduction to Web Design of the Quintessential Question • Books and Images •Art and Entrepreneurship

OTHER ACTIVITIES AT UNCG • Led a 2-day trip to New York City in April 2016 for 60 UNCG students who worked as volunteers on Oring’s “I Wish to Say” project at the PEN World Voices Festival at Bryant Park. • Led a 4-day trip to New York City in Fall 2015 for undergraduates in a class studying the Art in Odd Places festival and other forms of public and socially engaged art. • Commissioned a former MFA student to make a work of participatory art in conjunction with an Honors Capstone conference in Fall 2015. • Co-curated Art in Odd Places/Greensboro, a public art festival that took place during the Southeastern College Art Conference in Fall 2013. Scope included working with festival founder Ed Woodham on all aspects of the festival development; directing local efforts; and serving as a member of the curatorial team. • Led interdepartmental initiative to serve as satellite site for the Creative Time Summit in Fall 2013. Professors in areas ranging from Art History and Interior Architecture to New Media and Book Arts collaborated to create a day-long program of events that tied in with a live video feed from the New York summit on “Art, Place & Dislocation in the 21st Century City.” • Directed departmental efforts to engage students in a discussion about campus diversity. Oversaw student workshop and performances in Fall 2012; exhibition held in Spring 2013. • Developed two cross-disciplinary courses that were introduced in 2013: Art and Politics, an honors course co-taught with Dr. David Holian of the Political Science Department in Spring 2013; and Art and Entrepreneurship, a course that is cross-listed in the Bryan School of Business in Fall 2013. • Directed the department’s graduate overseas study initiative in Summer 2012; planned all aspects of the trip and led a group of graduate students on a 10-day study trip to Berlin and Kassel, Germany. Oversaw student exhibition created after the trip which ultimately became a framework for presenting work made after the department’s annual overseas trip. ACADEMIC SERVICE • UNCG Research Excellence Reward Review Committee (2017) • Hiring Committee (School of Art, Graphic Design position, 2016/17) • Undergraduate Studies Committee, Art Department (2015-18) • Visions Committee, Art Department (2015/16) • Served on selection panel for Elsewhere’s Southern Constellations residency program. (2015) • Led a community response to the killings of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, including an intercultural event held at one of the city’s mosques. (2015) • Graduate Studies Committee, Art Department (2012/13 and 2013/14) • Member of three MFA thesis committees in 2016/17 (chair of one); one in 2015/16; one in 2014/15; two in 2013/14 (chair of one); and two in 2012/13. • Gatewood Gallery Committee, Art Department (2012/13) • Joint Digital Advisory Committee (Interior Architecture and Art Departments, 2012) • Hiring Committee (Art Department, Art History position, 2012/13) ORING CV page 2 of 9

SELECTED RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1991- Freelance writer, editor and translator. Have written for publications including: Wired News, the Huffington Post, present the Chicago Tribune, American Journalism Review, the San Francisco Chronicle and the Rocky Mountain News. Editing work includes assignments as Senior Editor at the New York-based Arts International (2001) and as a copy editor at Wired News (1998). Various translations, German to English. 2004-08 Archivist/Editor, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, New York, NY. From 2004–06, archived the history of the skyscraper designed by SOM for the World Trade Center site. Also coordinated project presentations and produced competition books. 2003 Copy Editor, The New York Times. New York, NY, and Paris, France. (April - Sept. 2003) 1995-97 Assistant City Editor, San Francisco Chronicle. 1994 Copy Editor, San Francisco Chronicle. Edited on local, national and foreign desks.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES AND COMMISSIONS 2018-21 “Rising Together | an Exhibition of Zines, Artists’ Books and Prints with a Social Conscience,” juried traveling exhibition organized by the College Book Arts Association. Exhibition sites include Mills College/San Francisco Center for the Book; University of Iowa Center for the Book, and the University of Utah. 2018 Retrospective at the Stulberg Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL. Fall 2018. Curated by Mark Ormond. (solo) “Writer’s Block” at the Staniar Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA. Fall 2018. Curated by Clover Archer. (solo) “Writer’s Block” exhibition at the Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia, January 2018. (solo) “Agency of Art” exhibition at the University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, curated by Tatiana Sizonenko. North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship Award Exhibition, Cameron Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Wilmington. 2017 “Greetings from Tampa Bay” at Tampa International Airport. One of nine artists selected for public art commissions out of 753 applicants. Performances took place in Spring 2017 with sculptural installation planned for 2018. (solo) “Vital Signs for a New America” exhibition at the Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Curator: Srimoyee Mitra. One of three artists commissioned to make work for this show. “I Wish to Say” performances commissioned by the Office of Public Art, Pittsburgh. Two large-scale performances. (solo) “I Wish to Say” performances commissioned by Nevada Humanities. Two large-scale performances in Reno. (solo) “I Wish to Say” performance at Oakland Book Festival. Performance at Ringling College, Sarasota, FL, during “Freedom of the Presses” exhibition co-curated by Marshall Weber of Booklyn, Inc. and members of the Ringling College of Art and Design community. “I Wish to Say” performances at Elsewhere, Greensboro, NC. “I Wish to Say” performance at Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA. “I Wish to Say” performance at the College Art Association conference. 2016 “Dispatches” exhibition at Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC. Curator: Cora Fisher. One of six artists commissioned to create new work for this show. “I Wish to Say” performance at the University of Colorado. (solo) “I Wish to Say” performance at Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh. (solo) “I Wish to Say” performance at Creative Time Summit, Washington, DC. Performance at Art in Odd Places Festival, NY. ARTNOW commission at Monmouth University, NJ. (solo) “Of the People” exhibition at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY, in Summer 2016. Curator: Erin Donnelly. “I Wish to Say” performance at the PEN World Voices Festival in Bryant Park, NY.” (solo) “I Wish to Say” at the College Art Conference, Washington, DC. (solo) 2015 “I Wish to Say” performance commissioned by the Out of Site festival in Chicago. “Travel Desk” installed at San Diego International Airport. This was the second phase of a two-phase public art commission. (solo) 2014 “Role Model” performed at the International Symposium on Electronic Art, Dubai. Curator: Atteqa Ali. “Maueramt” exhibition at Museum THE KENNEDYS, Berlin, Germany. (solo) “Maueramt” performed at the Berlin Wall Memorial, Berlin, Germany. (solo) “Art in Odd Places: The Artifacts,” Governors Island, New York. Curator: Claire Demere. ORING CV page 3 of 9

Beyond Granite Design Competition, National Capital Planning Commission, Washington, DC. One of six finalists selected to present a proposal for a temporary memorial in Washington. Competition was ultimately cancelled for lack of funding. 2013 “Role Model” performed at Encuentro 2013, São Paolo, Brazil. Festival sponsored by New York University’s Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics. “The One and Many: Perspectives on Self and Other in Art & Human Rights,” Gallery 249, University of Dayton. Curated by Glenna Jennings. Installation. Faculty Biennial, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Installation. “Collective Memory,” Sloane Art Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Installation. (solo) 2012 “Alma Mater,” Art Museum at the University of Memphis. Commissioned to create centennial performance and exhibition, with photographer Dhanraj Emanuel. “Role Model” performed at Art Prospect Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia. Work commissioned by CEC ArtsLink. “100 Possibilities” performed at College Art Association, Los Angeles. Commissioned for CAA centennial. (solo) “I Wish to Say” performed at Democratic National Convention, Charlotte, NC. (solo) “Required Reading” at Center for Book Arts, New York. Group show curated by Yaelle Amir. Artist book. “Art on Paper,” Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Installation. 2011 “Collective Memory,” Bryant Park, New York, NY. Performance. (solo) “Offerings to Nature” at Art in Odd Places Festival, New York. Curators: Kalia Brooks and Trinidad Fombella. “Lost,” University of California, San Diego, Marcuse Gallery. (solo) “I Wish to Say,” Americans for the Arts convention, San Diego. Performance. (solo) Faculty Biennial, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Univ. of North Carolina at Greensboro. Installation. “Hyperlocal Identities: Cross-Disciplinary Productions,” University of California at San Diego. “Slideshow,” agitprop, San Diego. 2010 “I Wish to Say” performed at 01SJ Biennial, San Jose, CA. Curator: Steve Dietz. “Rilke's Offerings,” at Art in Odd Places Festival, New York. Installation. Curators: Yaelle Amir and Petrushka Bazin. Conflux Festival, New York, NY. Public installation. “I Wish to Say” performed at San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA. “Book Power!,” 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR. Artist books. “Labyrint – Writings & Observations,” Botkyrka konsthall, Sweden. Artist books. “The M Word,” University of California, San Diego, CA. 16mm film. 2009 “Creative Fix” presented at The New Children’s Museum, San Diego, CA. Video installation. (solo) 2008 “I Wish to Say” presented at McCormick Freedom Museum, Chicago, IL. Photo/print installation. (solo) “Sedition,” White Box Gallery, New York, NY. Prints and photos. Curator: Dread Scott. Belmont University Art Gallery, Nashville, TN. Photo/print installation. (solo) “I Wish to Say” performance at 22 public sites and universities across the U.S. (solo) 2007 Kalahita Art Gallery, Hyderabad, India. Photo/print installation. (solo) “Site Matters,” Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, New York, NY. Photo/print installation. 2006 “I Wish to Say: The Birthday Project,” interactive performance at 8 public sites across the U.S. Project was funded by the Creative Capital Foundation. (solo) “Writing Home” performed at International Center, New York, NY. (solo) “Looking Back From Ground Zero,” Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY. Artist book. “eBayADay,” University of Michigan. Curator: Rebekah Mondrak. 2005 “If I were Chancellor,” an interactive performance in which participants in five German cities were invited to dictate postcards to the German Chancellor or his primary challenger. (solo) “I Wish to Say,” interactive performances held in multiple locations around the country in “Cities, Art and Recovery” conference in New York City, curated by Radhika Subramaniam. “Writing Home,” Eldridge Street Project, New York, NY. Sculptural installation and performance. (solo) Makor, New York, NY. Prints. Project Diversity exhibition, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Performance. Curated by Brian Tate and Danny Simmons. “I Wish to Say,” performance in Washington, DC, on Inauguration Day. Presented in collaboration with the DC chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. (solo) ORING CV page 4 of 9

2004 “I Wish to Say,” interactive performance presented in various locations around the United States including: Oakland Box Theater in Oakland, CA; the University of Texas at Austin; the town square in Mesilla, NM; the University of Texas at El Paso; a shopping center in Tuba City, AZ; the Las Vegas Strip; San Julian Park in Los Angeles; PrideFest 2004 in New York City; Bryant Park in New York City; Boston; various locations in New York during the Republican National Convention; Atlanta, GA; Tampa, FL; and downtown New Haven, CT. (solo) 2003 “Writer’s Block,” Bryant Park, New York Public Library, New York, NY. Sculptural installation. Work consisted of 21 steel cages filled with antique typewriters. Originally shown on the site of the Nazi book burning in Berlin, Germany. (solo) “Writer’s Block,” Boston Public Library, Boston, MA. Sculptural installation. (solo) “Writer’s Block” lithographs published by Landfall Press, Chicago, IL. Shown at the San Francisco International Art Exposition, Art Chicago and the New York Print Fair. 2002 “Writer’s Block,” Lion’s Courtyard, Buda Castle, Budapest, Hungary. Sculptural installation. (solo) Free University of Berlin (Germany). Print exhibition. (solo) 2000 “Writer’s Block,” Nazi Documentation Center, Cologne, Germany. Sculptural installation. (solo) 1999 “Writer’s Block,” Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany. Sculptural installation. Haus der Demokratie, Berlin, Germany. Sculpture, photography. (solo) “Writer's Block” premiere on Bebelplatz, Berlin, Germany. Sculptural installation, shown on the site of the Nazi book burning in Berlin. (solo) 1998 Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany. Sculpture. (solo) Center for Art and Nature, Farrera, Spain. Photography. “Thoughts About the Duration of Exile,” Berlin, Germany. Performance/Bertolt Brecht tribute. (solo) 1997 Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, CA. Installation.

LECTURES, workshops AND RELATED WORK (selection) 2018 “Activating Democracy” lecture at the Florida Association of Public Art Professionals Conference. “Freedom of the Presses” panel at College Book Arts Association moderated by Bridget Elmer, Ringling College of Art and Design. Social Practice Queens, Queens College, NY. Artist lecture. 2017 “Humility in the Age of Self-Promotion” colloquium at the University of Michigan. Presenter on panel about “listening/hearing.” “Controversy, Censorship, and Conundrums: Finding Connections in Teaching” panel at Southeastern College Art Conference, co-chaired by Naomi J. Falk (University of South Carolina) and Ruth Stanford (Georgia State University). Fall 2017. “Vital Talks,” panel discussion at the Stamps Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. “Museums, Artists, and Social Change” panel at the College Art Association. Organized by Laura Flusche, Executive Director, Museum of Design Atlanta. University of Nevada, Reno. Artist lecture. Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL. Artist lecture. Office of Public Art, Pittsburgh. Artist lecture. 2016 “Activating Democracy: Making Manifestos” workshop at the Museum of Modern Art, NY. “Object Lessons: The Role of the Object in Socially Engaged Art” at the Southeastern College Art Conference, co-chair of panel with Dr. Edward Sterrett, Getty Research Institute. Artist lectures at Appalachian State University (NC); Monmouth University (NJ); Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (NC); Saint Joseph’s College (Maine); and Columbia College (Chicago). “I Wish to Say: Activating Democracy One Voice at a Time” at the College Book Arts Association panel “You Talkin’ To Me? — Collecting Stories as a Call to Action” moderated by Inge Bruggeman, University of Nevada, Reno. 2015 “I Wish to Say” at the Southeastern College Art Conference panel on “Social Engagement in the Time of Cholera: Has Social Practice “Arrived” too Late?” Organized by Christopher Sperandino, Rice University. 2014 “Maueramt: Documenting History through Art,” lecture at “Looking Back, Moving Forward: 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall Symposium” at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. “Facebook Doesn’t Listen: Locating Meaning in Participatory Performance,” at College Art Association panel on “The Myth of Participation and the Growing Realities of Critical Exchange” co-chaired by Ted Purves and Shane Aslan Selzer. “Art and Social Entrepreneurialism,” co-chair of College Art Association panel with Ed Woodham. 2013 Sloane Art Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Artist talk. “Art, Public Space and the Social Sphere,” co-chair of Southeastern College Art Conference panel with Xandra Eden. 2012 Loft Project Etagi, St. Petersburg, Russia. Artist talk at forum on public art. “The Object Game: The Pedagogy of Haim Steinbach.” Poster presentation at the College Art Association, with collaborator Edward Sterrett. ORING CV page 5 of 9

2010 “Artist Citizen: Catalysts, Collectives and Utopias,” panel at College Art Association. Organized by Joan Giroux and Amy Mooney, Columbia College. 2008 Longwood University, Farmville, VA. Artist lecture. Victoria College, Victoria, TX. Censorship in the Arts, keynote address to university. Belmont University, Nashville, TN. I Wish to Say, keynote address to university. “Photography After Photography,” panel at College Art Association. Organized by Matthias Geiger, UC Davis. 2007 Syracuse University. Visiting critic, Department of Art. 2005 University of Memphis. Artist lecture. Syracuse University. Artist lecture. Georgia State University. Artist lecture. 2001 Workshop in Media Theory, Criticism and Creation in Cluj, Romania. “Writer’s Block: The Nazi book burnings of 1933.”

BOOKS (published) 2018 URGENT! Missives From the People, Spring 2018 from the Letterpress and Book Arts Center, Ringling College of Art and Design. Published as part of an artist-in-residence program. Edition of 100. 2016 Activating Democracy: The I Wish to Say Project, Fall 2016 from Intellect Books, Bristol, UK / University of Chicago Press. Using an art project that invites the public to dictate postcards to the U.S. President, this peer-reviewed book provides a starting point for exploring issues relevant to activating democracy through art. With essays by contributors ranging from art historians, artists, poets, political scientists, and architects, the book gives an in- depth look at many of the components of a socially engaged art practice. Oring is the editor of this volume, which includes contributions by Dr. Radhika Subramaniam, curator at The New School; Teddy Cruz, professor of public culture and urbanism at the University of California, San Diego; and artists including Hasan Elahi and Ricardo Dominquez. 2012 Collective Memory, Fargo Books, Brooklyn, NY. Edition of 10. This exhibition-in-a-box houses the complete set of notes dictated during a “Collective Memory” performance held in New York City’s Bryant Park for the 10th anniversary of 9/11. The public was asked: “What would you like the world to remember about 9/11?” Answers were typed verbatim by volunteer typists. 2008 I Wish to Say: The Birthday Project, by Quack!Media, Ann Arbor, MI. Edition of 5,000. I Wish to Say offers an intimate picture of the American public and their views on the issues that are near and dear to them. For this project, Oring traveled more than 11,000 miles across the U.S. in summer 2006 and set up a public office in flea markets and parks. Dressed in vintage party clothes, she invited passersby to dictate cardsto President Bush for his 60th birthday and then typed the messages verbatim. The 140-page book features carbon copies of these cards and portraits of the people who sent them by photographer Dhanraj Emanuel. The Birthday Project, by Fargo Books, Brooklyn, NY. Edition of 8. 198 pages. Includes 45 birthday cards to President Bush and photographic portraits of the people who dictated the messages plus 24 photos of the performances. 2006 Writing Home, Fargo Books, Brooklyn, NY. Edition of 18. This book was made in conjunction with a series of interactive performances at New York’s Eldridge Street Project. It explores the connection between place, language, and memory, particularly in reference to the American immigrant experience. Participants were invited to dictate letters to their ancestors. 2005 I Wish to Say, volumes 1 & 2, Fargo Books, Brooklyn, NY. Editions of 100. These limited-edition artist books feature postcards to the president as dictated by the public in 2004. Wenn ich Kanzler waere, Fargo Books, Brooklyn, NY. One-of-a-kind book. This book is made from the carbon copies of postcards to the German chancellor and Polaroid photos. The cards were made as part of a traveling performance across Germany in August 2005 in which people were invited to express their feelings on the upcoming election. The 187-page collection is bound in seven volumes and is in the permanent collection of the Bibliotheque Nationale de Luxembourg. BOO KS (featured in) 2011 Something to Say: Thoughts on Art and Politics in America, by Richard Klin and Lily Prince, Leapfrog Press. This book profiles, in words and photos, disparate creative forces who offer thoughts on their point of engagement with the political sphere. It features a chapter on my work, as well as chapter on Pete Seeger, Yoko Ono and others.

FILM/VIDEO/NEW MEDIA releases Videos may be seen at: www.youtube.com/sheryloring 2017 “I Wish to Say: Pittsburgh,” video. 2016 “I Wish to Say,” video. 2013 “Travel Desk,” video, 3:56. 2011 “Collective Memory,” video. 2010 “The Making of Rilke’s Offerings,” video. 2:12. 2009 “On the Continuum of Fear,” 16mm film. 4:57. 2008 “Creative Fix,” video series. “I Wish to Say,” video. 4:52. 2003 “Writer’s Block,” video. ORING CV page 6 of 9

ARTICLES PUBLISHED (selection) “Radical Listening: Art and Citizenship in the Public Square - An Interview.” Chapter in Contemporary Citizenship, Art, and Visual Culture: Making and Being Made. Forthcoming in 2018 from Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies. Edited Corey Dzenko and Theresa Avila. “A Training Ground for the Future: Taking on Campus Issues With Art.” Chapter in Art As Social Action: An Introduction to the Principles & Practices of Teaching Social Practice Art. Forthcoming in 2018 from Allworth Press. Edited by Gregory Sholette, Chloe Bass and Social Practice Queens. “Everyone Was There: Travel Desk at the San Diego International Airport.” Chapter in Creative Collaboration in Art Practice, Pedagogy, and Research. Forthcoming in 2018 from Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Edited by M. Kathryn Shields and Sunny Spillane. “A Dispatch from documenta 14: An International Art Exhibition in Which Book Censorship Plays a Central Role.” National Coalition Against Censorship Blog, July 6, 2017. “Listening Is a Democratic Act.” San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 4, 2016. “Old Technology Delivers a New Message From Voters.” San Francisco Chronicle, April 26, 2016. “Maueramt,” Emergency INDEX Vol. 4, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, NY. 2015. “Travel Desk,” Emergency INDEX Vol. 3, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, NY. 2014. “Role Model.” Emergency INDEX Vol. 2, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn. 2013. “Collective Memory.” Emergency INDEX Vol. 1, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn. 2012. “Student Loan System Needs Overhaul.” San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 6, 2011. “Postcards to the Next President.” Huffington Post, June 17, 2008. “Gerd and Angie, You’ve Got Mail.” Der Spiegel. Sept. 16, 2005. “Joining Hands on a Day to Remember: Memorials ranging from prayer services to concerts are planned in Germany to pay tribute to the victims of the September 11 attacks on the U.S.” Deutsche Welle Online, Sept. 11, 2002. “Rescuing Dresden’s Cultural Treasures: The Elbe River continued to swell, and officials in Dresden worked into the night to move paintings, porcelain and other historical objects from basement Storage rooms in the city’s Baroque Zwinger.” Deutsche Welle Online, Aug. 15, 2002. “Blurring Boundaries in the World of Art: Visitors to Documenta 11 in Kassel are confronted with provocations about globalization and multiculturalism and with works that challenge traditional boundaries between creative genres.” Deutsche Welle Online, Aug. 6, 2002. “Confronting Leni: A new multimedia performance rethinks the legacy of Nazi photographer and filmmaker Riefenstahl.” Arts International, Spring 2002. “Bogota Cabaret: Colombian artist Santiago Echeverry presents life in the crossfire.” Arts International, Summer 2001. “Tom Freudenheim Talks: Former Deputy Director of the Jewish Museum Berlin said he sees a need for more open discussion ofJewish issues in Germany today.” Die Welt, July 19, 2000. “Frankfurt Book Fair Has Deep Roots, Techno Leanings.” Wired News, Oct. 16, 1997. “Berliners Try to Keep Fallen Wall and Art Alive.” Wired News, Sept. 12, 1997. “Mopping Up in Grand Forks: Residents find flood damage even worse than they imagined.” San Francisco Chronicle, May 8, 1997. “Kissing the Newsroom Goodbye: Leaving the newspaper business to make more money is a time honored tradition. But today new factors—a sense of shrinking opportunities prime among them— are contributing to the exodus.” With co-author Pete Danko. American Journalism Review, June 1995.

PRESS REVIEWS (selection, English language) “Performance Typist,” (Reno) News Review, July 20, 2017. “What Would You Say to the President?” KUNR (Reno), July 18, 2017. “Oakland Book Festival Uses Public Conversation to Address Inequality,” Daily Californian, May 25, 2017. “Volunteer ‘Secretaries’ Type Out, Mail Letters to Trump,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 29, 2017. “Unusual Art Display Brings ‘60s Secretaries to Pittsburgh,” KDKA, CBS Pittsburgh, April 28, 2017. “I Wish to Say Event to Be Held in Market Square,” Pittsburgh Today Live, KDKA, April 28, 2017. “Have a Message for President Trump? Vintage Typewriters to Be used in ‘I Wish to Say’ Events,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 25, 2017. “Have a Message for President Trump? Artist Sheryl Oring Will Type It and Send It for You,” Next Pittsburgh, April 25, 2017. “I Wish to Say Public Performance Planned in Pittsburgh,” The Almanac, April 14, 2017. “Pedestrians Dictate Postcards to Trump,” Triad City Beat, April 5, 2017. “I Wish to Say” Creative Pinellas, March 11, 2017. “During Trump’s First 100 Days, Art Professor Invites People to Dictate Postcards to Him,” The (Raleigh) News & Observer, Feb. 23, 2017. “UNCG Professor’s Postcard Project Is Now Online,” Greensboro News & Record, Feb. 8, 2017. “North Carolinians Pen Postcards for the New President,” WUNC, The State of Things, Jan. 24, 2017. “Sheryl Oring Wants to Hear Your Stories for a Tampa International Airport Art Installation,” Tampa Bay Times, Jan. 14, 2017. “SECCA exhibit takes a critical look at recent news, news media,” Winston-Salem Journal, Nov. 11, 2016. ORING CV page 7 of 9

“Letters to the President: A New Book Captures Citizens’ Political Pleas,” The State of Things, WUNC, Nov. 22, 2016. “Activating Politics: When Art and Politics Collide,” The Carolinian, Nov. 2, 2016 “ ‘Dispatches’ Views the News Through Art,” Greensboro News & Record, Oct. 31, 3016. “Have typewriter will travel: UNCG professor turns popular project into book,” Greensboro News & Record, Oct. 20, 3016. “Dear Mr. (or Mrs.) President : Artist gives Americans opportunity to tell next president what’s on their mind,” Pix 11 (NY), Oct. 11, 2016. “New Yorkers Can Leave Messages for Clinton, Trump at Park Pop-up Office,” ABC7 (NY), Oct. 11, 2016. “Artist Sheryl Oring lets people type out what they want to say to the next president on a typewriter,” NowThis Election, Oct. 11, 2016. “Postcards to Presidents Reveal What Americans Care About,” takepart, Oct. 5, 2016. “ ‘I Wish to Say’ Project Delivers Personal Messages to Presidential Candidates,” All Things Considered, NPR, April 27, 2016. “New Yorkers Send Postcards to Presidentail Candidates,” WFUV, April 27, 2016. “Typists in NYC Help People Write Postcards to Presidential Candidates - Hear What They Had to Say,” The Blaze, April 27, 2016. “The Big Apple and Typewriters: How one art professor is pushing the boundaries.” The Carolinian, April 20, 2016. “Sheryl Oring Will Help You Write a Letter to A Presidential Candidate,” Creative Capital Blog, April 13, 2016. “Here’s the New Public Artwork Approved for TIA,” Tampa Bay Business Journal, April 7, 2016. “Public Art Approved for Tampa International Airport Expansion,” WTSP, April 7, 2016. “PEN World Voices Returns With Focus on Mexico,” New York Times, Feb. 18, 2016. “Professor Collects Berlin Wall Memories 25 Years Later,” Reuters, Oct. 14, 2014. “Art in Odd Places in Greensboro to Feature 40 Artists,” Greensboro News & Record, Sept. 18, 2013. “Downtown Greensboro Will Exhibit Art in Odd Places in Fall,” Greensboro News & Record, March 26, 2013. “Artist Takes Public’s Words to the President,” WUNC, The State of Things, Feb. 5, 2013. “ ‘Art Prospect’, the First Large-Scale Public Art Festival, Kicks off in St. Petersburg,” Huffington Post, Sept. 20, 2012. “International Public Art Festival ‘Art Prospect’,” Russia Beyond the Headlines, Sept. 20-23, 2012. “Meet an Artist: Sheryl Oring,” Greensboro News-Record, Sept. 6, 2012. “The Democrats Convene,” Inside Higher Education, Sept. 4, 2012. “Secretaries Help People Write Letters to the President,” WFAE, Charlotte, Sept. 4, 2012. “Performance Artists Type Peoples’ Messages to the President,” Charlotte Observer, Sept. 3, 2012. “UNC-Greensboro Prof Carves Out Space for Civil Public Discourse,” Raleigh News and Observer, Sept. 2, 2012. “Stalking Distinction,” Art Forum, Feb. 28, 2012. “What is the Role of the Artist?” Hyperallergic, Feb. 27, 2012. “Reflections From the Typing Pool,” On Being blog, Oct. 11, 2011. “Weekend Event Immortalizes 9/11 Stories,” Washington Square News, Sept. 21, 2011. “9/11 Anniversary: New York Remembers,” BBC, Sept. 11, 2011. “Typists Compile Memories of 9/11,” Euro News, Sept. 11, 2011. “UNCG Professor Hopes to Document Memories of 9/11,” News 14 (North Carolina), Sept. 10, 2011. “For 9/11, Creating a Collective Memory,” The New Yorker, Sept. 9, 2011. “UNCG Professor to Record New Yorkers 9/11 Views,” Greensboro News-Record, Sept. 5, 2011. “Capturing the Quotidian: Book Artists Explore New Tools,” The Bonefolder, 2011. “San Diegans Write Letters to President Obama,” KPBS radio, San Diego, July 2, 2010. “Do You Have a Creative Fix for Our Country?” KPBS radio, San Diego, April 30, 2009. “Performance Artist Has 530 Messages to Give to Obama,” Los Angeles Times, Nov. 28, 2008. “Notes for Next President Make Stop at McCormick Freedom Museum,” Chicago Tribune, Nov. 17, 2008. “Artist Types Your Letters to the Next President,” Bryant Park Project, NPR, May 28, 2008. “Writers Give Future President Their 2 Cents,” New York Daily News, May 20, 2008. “These Are Postcards With an Edge,” Los Angeles Times, April 26, 2008. “Happy Birthday Mr. President From Art Fans,” All Things Considered, NPR, May 31, 2006. “They Say It’s Your Birthday,” The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC, June 20, 2006. “Secretary to the People,” St. Petersburg Times, June 20, 2006. “I Wish to Say,” The Pinch. Spring 2006. “If I were Chancellor,” Der Spiege, Aug. 16, 2005. “Freedom of Expression National Monument,” ArtUS, Jan. – Feb. 2005. “Dear Mr. President: A performance artist takes dictation from the people, left and right,” New Haven Register, Oct. 17, 2004. “Public Opinion on Postcards,” ABC World News Tonight, Sept. 3, 2004. “Postcards to the President? Performance Art,” The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 2, 2004 “A Protest Postcard,” Washingonpost.com, Sept. 2, 2004. “N.Y. Expressionism,” The Washington Post, Sept. 2, 2004. “To President Bush, I Wish to Say,” San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 2, 2004. “One-woman Campaign Shows Diversity of Political Opinion,” DPA, Sept. 2, 2004. “Artist Types Bush Letters,” New York Metro, Aug. 31, 2004. “Dear President Bush…,” MSNBC, Aug. 19, 2004. “A Salute to Free Speech, and the Freedom Not to Listen,” The New York Times, Aug. 18, 2004. “I Wish to Say…” Deutsche Welle (Berlin), Aug. 13, 2004. “To Sen. Kerry, I Wish to Say,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 29, 2004. “Take a Letter!” The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC, July 22, 2004. “Dear Mr. President...,” New York Sun, July 20, 2004. “I Wish to Say,” Amsterdam News, July 1, 2004. “To the President,” San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 20, 2004. ORING CV page 8 of 9 “Machines That Speak Volumes,” The New York Times, Sept. 21, 2003. “Speaking Out on Censorship,” Forward, Sept. 19, 2003. “Words on Fire,” Boston Phoenix, March 7, 2003. “Artist’s obsession: 10 tons of typewriters,” San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 17, 2003. Media TV, Toronto, Canada, Summer 1999. “Memories of a Caged Past,” Wired News, May 10, 1999. “Book Burning Memorial Pile Up in Berlin,” Associated Press, April 28, 1999. “Typewriters in Cages,” San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 8, 1999.

Press Reviews (selection, foreign press) Live interview on The Day With Brent Goff on Deutsche Welle TV, Oct. 14, 2016. “Gedanken und Geschichten zur Mauer,” Deutschlandradio, Nov. 7, 2014. “Berlin 9N: 1989-2014,” El Pais, Nov. 6, 2014. “Writing on the Wall,” Jerusalem Post, Oct. 18, 2014. “Mobiles Maueramt zum Jubilaeum,” ZDF/Morgen Magazin, Oct. 14, 2014. “Ein Amt für Zerrissenheit,” taz (Berlin, Germany), Sept. 5, 2014. “Chefsekretärin aus den 60ern sammelt Mauergeschichten,” RBB Radio (Berlin, Germany), Sept. 4, 2014. “Kunstprojekt zur Berliner Mauer,” Evangelischer Pressedienst (Berlin, Germany), Sept. 4, 2014. “Maueramt wieder aufgebaut,” Bild Zeitung (Berlin, Germany), Sept. 3, 2014.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES 2018 Nominee for Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. Ringling College of Art and Design, Letterpress and Book Arts Center. Artist in residence. The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, Rabun Gap, Georgia. Artist-in-residence. Marble House Project, Dorset, Vermont. Artist-in-residence. Impractical Labor in Service of the Speculative Arts (ILSSA), West Virginia. Artist-in-residence. 2017 James Y. Joyner Award for Teaching Excellence, university-wide award from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 2016-18 Distinguished Spartan Scholar (awarded by UNCG Humanities Network and Consortium). 2016 Anonymous Was a Woman award nominee. Digital Partners Grant from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro library. North Carolina Arts Council artist fellowship. UNCG College of Arts and Sciences Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award Proposal Preparation Program Award, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Graduate School Publication Award, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 2015 Publication Subsidy Award, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Franklin Furnace Fund grant, New York. One of 14 artists chosen from 492 submissions for this award. Out of Site Festival grant. Chicago. Lloyd International Honors College Chancellor’s Resident Fellow, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Proposal Preparation Program Award, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 2014 Scholar’s Travel Fund and International Travel Fund Awards, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Grant from the Embassy of the United States of America to Germany for “Maueramt” project. 2013 McCloy Fellowship in Art, American Council on Germany. Bernard-Glickman Research Professorship, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. New Faculty Research Grant, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Summer Excellency Award, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Proposal Preparation Program Award, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. International Travel Fund Award, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 2012 Coleman Foundation Faculty Entrepreneurship Fellow, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. 2011 College Art Association Professional-Development Fellowship. 2010 01SJ Biennial, San Jose, CA, microgrant. 2007 Puffinoundation F (Teaneck, NJ) grant for continued work on “I Wish to Say.” 2006 Creative Capital Foundation, New York, NY. Grant in the “Emerging Fields” category for “I Wish to Say” project. 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in Performance Art/Multidisciplinary work. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY, Swing Space studio award. Makor art center, New York, NY, artist-in-residence. Arthur F. Burns grant for “If I Were Chancellor” performances in Germany. 2004 Person of the Week, World News Tonight, ABC News. Sept. 3, 2004. 2001 European Journalism Fellowship. Free University, Berlin, Germany. 1999 Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship. Berlin, Germany. 1999- Grants for the “Writer’s Block” art installation include: 2002 Checkpoint Charlie Foundation (Berlin) American Embassy Berlin Kulturamt Mitte (Berlin) Robert Bosch Foundation (Stuttgart, Germany) DaimlerChrysler (Berlin) Puffinoundation F (Teaneck, NJ) Goethe Institute-Budapest German Embassy in Budapest Budapest Mayor’s Office German Consulate in Los Angeles Cultural Exchange Foundation (Washington, DC) ORING CV page 9 of 9

1998 Montolieu Writer’s Workshop Fellowship, Montolieu, France. Center for Art and Nature, Farrera, Spain. Artist-in-Residence. 1997 Arthur F. Burns Fellowship for Journalists. Berliner Zeitung, Germany. Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, California. Artist-in-Residence.

COLLECTIONS (selection) Museum of Modern Art (New York) Tate Britain Brooklyn Museum Bibliothèque Nationale de Luxembourg Skidmore College University of Connecticut Wesleyan University University of Vermont Temple University Reed College Ringling College of Art and Design Smith College Museum of Fine Art (Boston) Yale University Swarthmore College Lafayette College Cornell University University of Iowa Ohio State University University of California, Irvine University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Santa Barbara University of Indiana Univeristy of North Carolina at Greensboro Indiana University Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Prudential Insurance Hallmark Cards La Jolla Athenaeum Baylor University University of Utah University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library of Congress

ARTIST REPRESENTATION Vamp and Tramp Booksellers, Birmingham, AL. Landfall Press, Santa Fe, NM.

LANGUAGE SKILLS Fluent in English and German.

TECHNICAL SKILLS Fluent in Mac and PC platforms as well most photo and video equipment and software.