This suite of lithographs was published by Landfall Press. Each of the 20 prints is 15x15 in.

About the prints: Sheryl Oring makes a powerful statement about censorship with her Writer’s Block series. A renowned performance and social activist artist, Oring gathered hundreds of typewriters from the 1920s and 30s, then “incarcerated” them in rusty steel cages. She placed her Writer’s Block sculptures on the Berlin site where Nazis burned books and destroyed the works of great authors such as Nelly Sachs and Bertolt Brecht. Her works honor the great writers whose books were burned by Nazis; yet they also remind us of the censorship that is rampant in schools across the United States today. The lithographic suite seems to express yearning to communicate, but with words that can not be completed.

The prints are in a variety of museum collections, including the New Mexico Museum of Art and the Milwaukee Museum of Art. They are available from Turner Carroll Gallery.

 Each of these monoprints was created from the residue accumulated during an outdoor exhibition of the Writer’s Block sculptures. Each print is 3x3 feet.