1 – 4pm / 1300 – 1600
What We Work For by Sheryl Oring* 
Sheryl Oring returns to the U.S. Pavilion with What We Work For after an engaging performance over July 4th Weekend, where she recorded people’s reflections on the public reading of the Declaration of Independence, What Does Independence Mean to You? 

Sheryl Oring examines critical social issues through projects that incorporate old and new media to tell stories, examine public opinion and foster open exchange. Using tools typically employed by journalists (the camera, the typewriter, the pen, the interview and the archive) she builds on experience in her former profession to create installations, performances, artist books and internet-based works that address themes of citizenship, free expression, first amendment rights, story-telling and activism through art.  

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.  

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.