{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Truth In This Art","title":"#45 – How Can Typing in Public Challenge Fear and Defend Free Speech? | Sheryl Oring","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3922,"description":"Interdisciplinary artist and activist Sheryl Oring returns to The Truth In This Art! \nOring shares updates on I Wish to Say. \"I Wish to Say\" is her long-running public art project. For decades, thousands of people have dictated postcards to the U.S. president for this project. It started with just one typewriter. Now, it's a growing collection of public records. It helps fight censorship and shares stories from people rarely heard.\nSheryl had a hard year after her school, University of the Arts, closed. This conversation looks at how that loss, plus listening and old papers, shaped her newest art.\nTopics Covered: \nFighting censorship: She was the first artist on the board of the National Coalition Against Censorship.\nTyping on tour: She gathered messages from parks, libraries, and schools during an election year.\nArchiving 5,000+ typewritten postcards and the invisible labor of cultural memory\nPost-UArts Philadelphia: navigating grief, disillusionment, and artistic renewal after institutional collapse\nFear and self-censorship among immigrants, youth, and marginalized communities\nLibraries as sanctuary: preserving democratic space as book bans and closures escalate\nArt as care: on fermenting, gardening, and rituals that ground a life in transition\nSheryl first appeared on The Truth in This Art in 2023—listen to that conversation here.\nThis episode was recorded during a season that looked at archives, resilience, and artists who work in public spaces.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/JOa6JbGOYOtDQMaChk3GEjdMaqieN4aTVZIMSZjm84c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85Y2U0/ZjJkMjUzNTFiYjlh/NTNkMDAxNzg0Y2Iy/ZWI5My5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}