Summer exhibitions coming to MOWA

The Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend has scheduled its summer exhibitions. The museum is at 205 Veterans Ave.

For more information, visit https://wisconsinart.org.

• Dormant Season by Erinn Springer will be on display from Saturday, June 21, through Sept. 14.

Springer’s ongoing photographic series focuses on the exploration of her childhood home in rural Wisconsin and features more than 30 black-and-white photographs and a video installation, 

Springer photographed family and neighbors throughout Dunn County.

She earned bachelor of arts degree from Parsons, The New School of Design, in New York. Her photographs have been featured in numerous publications including the New York Times, The New Yorker and Vogue.

An opening party will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 21, followed by an artist talk at 12:15 p.m.

• Madison-based Hideki Suzuki will have hand-carved wooden masks on display in his Mukashi Mukashi exhibit from Saturday, June 21, to Sept. 14.

The exhibit’s name is Japanese for “long long ago,” which is how traditional stories begin in Japan.

Suzuki features characters such as signs from the Chinese Zodiac, hybrid creatures, and nature gods.

The masks are carved from soft and pliable basswood, then finished with layers of chalk and gelatin, 

He has carved more than 100 masks in the past six years.

This is his first solo museum exhibition.

An opening party will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 21, followed by an artist talk at 1 p.m.

• American Potter and Entrepreneur by Susan S.G. Frackelton will be on display from Saturday, July 21, through Nov. 9.

The ceramic artist and entrepreneur who lived from 1848 to 1932 is regarded as a pioneer of the American Pottery Movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 

Frackelton chose to reject the increasing industrialization in favor of creating “purely personal” work that did not “slavishly follow any school or trend.” 

She began her professional career in the mid-1870s painting scenes from nature on unadorned dinnerware blanks. Birds, butterflies and lake scenes were among her favorite subjects. She also was a potter and businesswoman.