Artist: Sheryl Oring Sheryl Oring, a New York-based artist, will dress as a 1950s secretary and type postcards to the President as dictated by the people who stop by her office. This auction is for the sale of one performance, to be scheduled at a mutually agreed upon time. Hire Sheryl to do the show for two hours anywhere in New York! She will set up her office – complete with an old-fashioned typewriter – and type up anything you and your friends wish to say to the President. You may mail the originals to the White House, while Sheryl will keep carbon copies for her archive. Great for parties and holiday gifts!! This performance, called "I Wish to Say," originated in a show commissioned by the First Amendment Project (www.thefirstamendment.org) in 2004 and presented at various locations around the United States in 2004 and 2005. Over the course of this time, Sheryl typed more than 1,200 postcards to the president from locations including the Las Vegas Strip, Skid Row in Los Angeles, Boston, New York, New Haven, St. Petersburg and many more places. In 2006, she did a special edition of the show, called "The Birthday Project," in which she typed birthday cards to the President for his 60th birthday. This work was made possible by a grant from the Creative Capital Foundation (www.creative-capital.org) and support from the Booklyn Artists Alliance (www.booklyn.org). Sheryl's work on this project has been featured in many press reports including: NPR's All things considered: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php/?storyId=5442772 ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/PersonOfWeek/story?id=131435&page=1 WNYC, Brian Lehrer show: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2006/06/20 For more information on the artist's work, please visit www.iwishtosay.org. Please note that because of travel costs, this offer is good only in New York City. If you live outside New York and wish to schedule a performance, please contact the artist directly at info@iwishtosay.org Thanks!