How can creativity help to build community?
Gathering Currents brings together the creative work of Otterbein faculty & staff artists, whose practices carry stories, questions, and imagery across multiple disciplines and media. Visitors are invited to explore the work in this exhibition as both creative expressions of individuals and as currents that gather and shape our community.
ABout the Artist
Faculty & Staff
Participating Artists:
Jim Bowling, Professor
Louise Captein, Associate Professor
Adena Griffith, Adjunct Professor
Jonathan Johnson, Professor
Amanda Le Kline, Associate Professor
Andew McNamara, Assistant Professor
Bill Menke, Adjunct Professor
Allen Reichert, Art Liaison
Khari Saffo, Museum & Galleries Assistant
Scott Short, Installation and Collections Management
Thank you to our sponsors for their ongoing support of our global arts and interdisciplinary exhibitions and programming.
Plan
Your
Visit
The Frank Museum is located one block east of Uptown Westerville’s vibrant commercial district. Spend an afternoon visiting the museum’s current exhibition, browsing in Uptown’s locally owned shops, and relaxing in our excellent restaurants or coffee establishments. The Frank Museum staff are always available for tours.
Current Exhibitions
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7th Annual Juried High School Art Exhibition
Miller GalleryNovember 23 – December 5, 2025The purpose of Otterbein’s Annual Juried High School Exhibition is to learn about and to support High School artists in Ohio and the contiguous states. -
Paper Cosmologies
Hiromi Mizugai Moneyhun’s Floating WorldsFrank Museum of ArtJanuary 8 – April 23, 2026Paper Cosmologies draws on Florida-based Japanese artist Hiromi Mizugai Moneyhun’s (水貝 宏美) Ukiyo and Emergence series, which turn single sheets of washi paper into universes that refuse a frame. Through kirie (切り絵)—the ancient and painstaking Japanese art of paper cutting—Moneyhun realizes complex and fantastical worlds where female figures inherit the elegance of bijin-ga (美人画) beauty, even as they emerge, entangle, and transform into animals, architecture, and landscapes. The diaphanous, yet commanding and playful paper forms ask: “What if our ideas of separation are an illusion?” -
Ukiyoe’s Living Legacy: The Yoshida Family Prints
Frank Museum of ArtAugust 20 – December 5, 2025From the Meiji period (1868-1912) to the present day, the Yoshida family has carried forward a printmaking tradition rooted in the aesthetics of ukiyo-e, a genre of Japanese art that flourished during the Edo period (1603-1867) and that depicted transient pleasures and everyday life of the urban population. Beginning with work by the patriarch Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950), this exhibition samples the Yoshida family’s artistic re-imagining of ukiyo-e through modern and contemporary periods. The works on view from the Flaten Art Museum demonstrate technical mastery and an ongoing negotiation between past and present, tradition and innovation, place and personhood.