Lloyd International Honors College

Sheryl Oring is an artist and scholar whose work focuses on activating democracy through art. She is the founder of the “I Wish to Say” project in which she invites the public to dictate postcards to the U.S. President. As a visiting scholar in Lloyd International Honors College, she will work with students to foster civic engagement on the UNCG campus and in the community of Greensboro, NC.

Oring has shown her work at the O1SJ Biennial; Bryant Park in Manhattan; the Brooklyn Public Library; the Jewish Museum Berlin; and the McCormick Freedom Museum in Chicago. She has also presented work at Art in Odd Places in New York; the Art Prospect festival in St. Petersburg, Russia; Encuentro in Sao Paolo, Brazil; and the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Dubai. Oring received her MFA from the University of California at San Diego and worked as an Associate Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro prior to joining Wayne State University in Detroit as Professor and Chair of the James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History and University of the Arts in Philadelphia as Dean of the School of Art.

She has completed public art commissions at the San Diego International Airport and at the Tampa International Airport. Collecting institutions include the Library of Congress; Museum of Modern Art; Tate Britain; Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; La Jolla Athenaeum; Yale University; University of California, Irvine; and many other university libraries across the United States.