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MARQUETTE --Milwaukee-born artist Bill Thelen will host a collaborative drawing workshop and an artist talk on Thursday at Northern Michigan University. The programs are free and open to the public. From 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Art and Design room 263, Thelen will lead "BINGO!, a collaborative drawing workshop," utilizing bingo markers as the media. He will guide participants with a series of prompts. The workshop will culminate in a collaborative art installation. Experience is not necessary, and supplies will be provided. Thelen's artist talk will be at 6 p.m. Art and Design room 165. He will discuss his installation, assemblage and drawing-centered practice.
These programs are sponsored in part by the Michigan Arts & Culture Council.
Thelen's work is currently displayed in the DeVos Art Museum's "True Likeness" exhibition, which is free and open to the public. The portraits will be available to view until Friday, Nov. 3. Currently residing in Raleigh, North Carolina. Thelen holds a BFA from the University of Wisconsin and an MFA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Since 1998, he has shown work in solo exhibitions across the U.S. at venues including the Allcott Gallery at UNC, Allston Skirt Gallery in Boston, The Rubenstein at Duke University, Green Gallery West in Milwaukee, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, the Branch Gallery and Spectre Arts in Durham. His work has been included in Frieze, the New York Times, Art in America, Time Out London and Sculpture.Thelen has held residencies at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2005, Obracodobra in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 2016 and The Rubenstein at Duke University in 2018. He has also worked as a curator for institutions, including CAM Raleigh and the Flanders Gallery, and served as director of Lump in Raleigh.