About
The Frank
The Frank Museum of Art is a public-facing, interdisciplinary teaching and research museum that is dedicated to global art. The Frank houses Otterbein’s permanent collection of art from Africa, Japan, China, New Guinea, and other regions. The museum hosts exhibitions of both contemporary and traditional art from around the world. Our exhibitions integrate across Otterbein’s curriculum, providing object-based learning for Integrative Studies, First Year Experience, History, English and Creative Writing, Art History, Art, Philosophy and Religion, Film Studies, Chemistry, and other programs. The Frank Museum also collaborates with other universities and enriches Ohio’s K–12 and wider community learning through outreach and engagement programming.
Otterbein Connection
Interested in engaged learning, research, or an Otterbein Ready Student Internship at The Frank Museum & Galleries? The Frank is a hub of interdisciplinary teaching, learning, and professional experience. Contact us today to schedule a class visit, curated walkthrough, or to discuss faculty research projects related to exhibitions or the permanent art collection.
History
Founded in 2004 through the generosity of Professor Lillian Frank, Otterbein alumni, the Japanese Friends of The Frank Museum, and numerous other donors, The Frank Museum is the former “church house” of Lillian Frank, a beloved Professor who taught at Otterbein for twenty-nine years in the areas of art, theology, and philosophy. With the help of her husband Paul, Lillian converted the former Salem Evangelical Church, built in 1877, to their residence in 1956. The site of many faculty and student gatherings over the years, the building was given to Otterbein upon Lillian’s death in 1999 for the express purpose of creating a museum to house the college’s collection. It opened in Winter 2004.
We incite curiosity and
meaningful dialogue
by connecting art to…
everything.
“Art +” describes how we work. We explore the intersections of creativity and context, where new possibilities and new ways of thinking are discovered. Art + is a generative space. Art + reveals what wants to emerge. Art + is what we do best.
Art Plus…
Visit The Frank Museum of Art and Otterbein’s three other unique exhibition spaces.
The Frank Museum of Art
Miller Gallery
Fisher Gallery
Stichweh Gallery
The Frank Museum & Galleries Staff
Janice Glowski, PhD
Director, Curator
Janice Glowski serves as Director of The Frank Museum of Art & Galleries. An art historian with an interdisciplinary background, Glowski curates exhibitions across disciplines. She also teaches in Otterbein’s Art History & Visual Culture, Art, and Integrative Studies programs. Learn more about Glowski’s exhibitions, research, and publications here.
Khari Saffo
Museum & Galleries Assistant
Khari Saffo works with exhibition preparation and installation, as well as community outreach, for The Frank Museum of Art & Galleries. As a multidisciplinary artist, Saffo blends disciplines like animation, stand-up comedy, and martial arts such as Capoeira and Muay Thai, in work that explores the nuances of movement, presence, and the body as a tool for expression.
Thank you to our sponsors for their ongoing support of our global arts and interdisciplinary exhibitions and programming.
