Academic : Design : Studio : Emeritus

Michael Onken

Emeritus Professor, Drawing/Painting
MA  Northern Illinois University 1966



Michael Onken retired in 2002 following 34 years teaching in the School of Art and Design, where for 29 years he was also the
Head of Graduate Studies. The summer workshop program in Scotland with which he was associated since the early  90's happily continues under new leadership and his interest in it continues as well.   An exhibition of recent paintings with a retrospective view of work over past decades was held at the University Museum in January 2006.

In April 2006 he will serve a residency through the Hienrich Boll Foundation at the late writers retreat on Achill Island, Ireland. Following that he hopes to begin a collaboration with Nicolas Mcdowall of The Old Stile Press in Wales to bring woodcut images
to an unpublished manuscript from the estate of the Orkney poet laureate George Mckay Brown.

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