Sheryl A. Oring
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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