MUSE

Miller Gallery
April 27 - May 15, 2026
Christopher Jackson, BFA
Otterbein Artist-in-Residence
Public Reception
April 30, 2026, 4p - 6p
Artist remarks begin at 4:30p
Muse features work by Otterbein's 2025-2026 Artist-in-Residence, Christopher Jackson. Jackson's oil paintings use bold line and abstraction to explore presentations of the figure, personal narrative, and coded allegory.

Christopher Jackson is a painter and arts professional who received his Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree from Otterbein University in 2025. He was awarded an Otterbein-artist–in-Residence, a year-long creative residency to pursue his work as an oil painter in June 2025. Jackson served as a Collections Management Intern with The Frank Museum of Art, where he photo-documented and databased the Richard ’54 and Carolyn Brown ’53 Sherrick Collection of more than 600 creché and related scenes. Jackson also was an Education Intern with The Wexner Center for the Arts, where he also led gallery tours and worked with the Registrar.  


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Current Exhibitions

  • Weight & Witness

    Alex Lewis & Jack Koppert
    Fisher Gallery
    April 5 – September 26, 2026
    Weight & Witness pairs the accumulated gravity of Alex Lewis’ ceramic and assemblage sculptures with the unflinching portraiture of Jack Koppert’s oil paintings. Together, their work engenders a domestic solemnity, punctuated by moments of surprise and humor.
  • Senior Exhibitions: Part I

    “Growing Pains”
    Miller Gallery
    April 13 – April 17, 2026
    Join Otterbein faculty and staff as we celebrate our students during their Senior Capstone fine art exhibitions.
  • Paper Cosmologies

    Hiromi Mizugai Moneyhun’s Floating Worlds
    Frank Museum of Art
    January 8 – April 23, 2026
    Paper 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?”