2024 The Cooper Union Advancement for Science and Art, New York, NY
2017 Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI
2020 Union Journal, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2019 Ray and Nancy Loeschner Award, Fredrick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI
2018 VSA Emerging Young Artist Award, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C.
2017 President’s Award, Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI
2021 My Dearest Friends Project, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
2021 This is How We Came to Be, The Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL
2020 Today is a Cane Day (And I’m Going to Have to Learn to Be Okay With That), Curated by Katherine Chwazik, Smallbany Gallery, Albany, NY
2019 I Hope You Find Comfort (In This and In Life), The Light Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
2019 I am Hers and She is Mine, Curated by Michele Bosak, Bend Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
2021 UNITY|REACH|FORWARD, REACH campus, The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington D.C.
2019 Way Opens Disability Arts and Culture, Riverside Arts Center, Ypsilanti, MI
2019 Show Your Paper, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019 Voices: Partnered with DisArt, ArtPrize: Project 1, TangleFoot, Grand Rapids, MI
2019 Faculty Exhibition, Dow Center for Visual Arts, Interlochen, MI
2019 Detour, Traveling exhibition, The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington D.C.,
2018 All Artworks, Venue Tower, Grand Rapids, MI
2018 Youth #3, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do South Korea
2018 Shape Open, Art Pavilion, London, England
2017 In Her Hands, Trent University, Ontario, Canada
2017 ArtPrize 9, DeVos Place Convention Center, Grand Rapids, MI
2017 Thesis I, Dow Visual Arts Building, Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI
2020 Socially Distant Artist Residency, online
2019 Soaring Gardens, Laceyville Pennsylvania
Fredrick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI
Erin’s Pavilion, Springfield, IL
African American History Museum, Springfield, IL
2021 Shelley Irwin, WGVU Morning Show, February 16: https://www.wgvunews.org/post/disart-4
2021 Keavy Handley-Byrne, Strange Fire Collective Website, January 14: http://www.strangefirecollective.com/qa-oaklee-thiele
2020 Sam Easter, Grand Rapids Magazine, September 30: https://www.grmag.com/people-places/issues/my-dearest-friends/
2020 Amanda Cachia, Akimbo Website, June 24: https://akimbo.ca/akimblog/my-dearest-friends-oaklee-thiele-in-conversation-with-amanda-cachia/
2020 Chris Smit and Jill Vyn, DisArt DisTopia Podcast, April 3: https://distopia.libsyn.com/episode-21-my-dearest-friends-project-oaklee-thiele
2019 Erika Townsley, The Light Gallery Podcast, March 1: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5kMwnb0D4osQNYzdk1vamI
2020 The Dearest Friends Project: A Global Art Collaboration Centering Disability During COVID-19, Rooted in Rights, October 13: https://rootedinrights.org/the-dearest-friends-project-a-global-art-collaboration-centering-disability-during-covid-19/
2021 nTIDE Webinar Series Episode #3, Kessler Foundation, AUCD, University of New Hampshire Institute on Disability, Durham, NH, March 5
2021 Guest Artist Lecture, Kendall College of Art and Design, Virtual, Grand Rapids, MI, January 9 and 14
2020 Disabled Artist Talk, Inclusive HEARTS Alliance, Virtual, Charleston, SC, December 4
2020 Disabled Artist Talk, Creative Growth, Virtual, Oakland, CA, December 1
2020 Conversations on Disability with Artist and Disability Advocate Oaklee Thiele,
Woman Made Gallery, Virtual, Chicago, IL, October 30
2020 The My Dearest Friends Project, Michigan ADA 30 Celebration, Virtual,
Grand Rapids, MI, August 18
2020 Living as a Disabled Artist During the COVID-19 Crisis, Upgrade Accessibility and Camp Access, Virtual, Nationwide, May 26
2020 All About Service Animals (K-2nd Grade), Little Flower School, Springfield, IL, March 4
2019 Teaching Assistant, Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI
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