Salon Exhibit
April 4 - May 23, 2026 | On view in Main Gallery
52nd Annual Salon of Door County High School Art

In celebration of creativity, discipline, and emerging voices, Door County's high school art departments, in partnership with the Miller Art Museum, present this long-standing exhibition featuring a selection of work from the County's five high schools, which offers young artists the experience of presenting their work in a professional museum setting. Image at right: Audrie Schley, A Pop of Color, mixed media; grade 11, Southern Door High School. Click here for more information about the exhibit.

In celebration of creativity, discipline, and emerging voices, Door County's high school art departments, in partnership with the Miller Art Museum, present this long-standing exhibition featuring a selection of work from the County's five high schools, which offers young artists the experience of presenting their work in a professional museum setting. Image at right: Audrie Schley, A Pop of Color, mixed media; grade 11, Southern Door High School. Click here for more information about the exhibit.

In celebration of creativity, discipline, and emerging voices, Door County's high school art departments, in partnership with the Miller Art Museum, present this long-standing exhibition featuring a selection of work from the County's five high schools, which offers young artists the experience of presenting their work in a professional museum setting. Image at right: Audrie Schley, A Pop of Color, mixed media; grade 11, Southern Door High School. Click here for more information about the exhibit.

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Abe Cohn | Maker's Mark
April 4 - May 23, 2026 | On view in Gallery 3
Abe Cohn | Maker's Mark

Celebrating the artistic and educational legacy of potter Abe Cohn (1925-2013), a foundational figure in Door County’s craft community. This exhibition centers around a practice shaped by discipline, teaching, and community and is anchored by a large-scale portrait of Cohn at the potter’s wheel by Craig Blietz. The painting captures the quiet authority of a master at work and situates his practice within a broader linage of mentorship that continues to shape the county’s creative culture.

Celebrating the artistic and educational legacy of potter Abe Cohn (1925-2013), a foundational figure in Door County’s craft community. This exhibition centers around a practice shaped by discipline, teaching, and community and is anchored by a large-scale portrait of Cohn at the potter’s wheel by Craig Blietz. The painting captures the quiet authority of a master at work and situates his practice within a broader linage of mentorship that continues to shape the county’s creative culture.

Celebrating the artistic and educational legacy of potter Abe Cohn (1925-2013), a foundational figure in Door County’s craft community. This exhibition centers around a practice shaped by discipline, teaching, and community and is anchored by a large-scale portrait of Cohn at the potter’s wheel by Craig Blietz. The painting captures the quiet authority of a master at work and situates his practice within a broader linage of mentorship that continues to shape the county’s creative culture.

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Bloom, poetically
April 4 - May 23, 2026 | On view in the Ruth Morton Miller Mezzanine
Bloom, poetically

Bloom, poetically brings together a vibrant and colorful selection of botanical works drawn from the collection, celebrating the artists who found in flowers not just subject matter, but feeling. Works by Franne Dickinson, Judi Ekholm, Mary Bosman, Flora Langlois, Robert Ekholm, Anne Miotke, and others fill the gallery with color, texture, and life—each work with a different way of saying: look closely. There is more here than meets the eye. From luminous oils to delicate watercolors, this exhibition is a reminder that beauty, rendered with intention, is never a small thing. Come for the color. Stay for the poetry.

Bloom, poetically brings together a vibrant and colorful selection of botanical works drawn from the collection, celebrating the artists who found in flowers not just subject matter, but feeling. Works by Franne Dickinson, Judi Ekholm, Mary Bosman, Flora Langlois, Robert Ekholm, Anne Miotke, and others fill the gallery with color, texture, and life—each work with a different way of saying: look closely. There is more here than meets the eye. From luminous oils to delicate watercolors, this exhibition is a reminder that beauty, rendered with intention, is never a small thing. Come for the color. Stay for the poetry.

Bloom, poetically brings together a vibrant and colorful selection of botanical works drawn from the collection, celebrating the artists who found in flowers not just subject matter, but feeling. Works by Franne Dickinson, Judi Ekholm, Mary Bosman, Flora Langlois, Robert Ekholm, Anne Miotke, and others fill the gallery with color, texture, and life—each work with a different way of saying: look closely. There is more here than meets the eye. From luminous oils to delicate watercolors, this exhibition is a reminder that beauty, rendered with intention, is never a small thing. Come for the color. Stay for the poetry.

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W. Joseph Christiansen
April 4 - May 23, 2026 | On view in Gallery 2
W. Joseph Christiansen | Pinhole Photography

Christiansen is a Maplewood artist and lifelong photographer with an inclination toward the surreal. Since 1991, he has experimented with pinhole photography, which, as Christiansen explains, “is making photographs using a camera fitted with a tiny aperture known as a pinhole in the place of a lens.” The result provides a soft, dreamlike rendering of the subject.

Christiansen is a Maplewood artist and lifelong photographer with an inclination toward the surreal. Since 1991, he has experimented with pinhole photography, which, as Christiansen explains, “is making photographs using a camera fitted with a tiny aperture known as a pinhole in the place of a lens.” The result provides a soft, dreamlike rendering of the subject.

Christiansen is a Maplewood artist and lifelong photographer with an inclination toward the surreal. Since 1991, he has experimented with pinhole photography, which, as Christiansen explains, “is making photographs using a camera fitted with a tiny aperture known as a pinhole in the place of a lens.” The result provides a soft, dreamlike rendering of the subject.

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Maritime Moments
April 4 - May 23, 2026 | On view in the Ruth Morton Miller Mezzanine
Maritime Moments

Maritime Moments invites us into the quiet poetry of life on the water — maritime life as both deeply shared and deeply personal. From the communal rhythms of a crew working side by side in close quarters, to the profound solitude of a lighthouse keeper attending his skiff, works by Charles L. Peterson, Gerhard CF Miller, Robert von Neumann, and others preserve the gestures and ways of life that defined this world. This intimate collection asks us to look closely — and to witness something that continues to stir the imagination long after the moment has passed.

Maritime Moments invites us into the quiet poetry of life on the water — maritime life as both deeply shared and deeply personal. From the communal rhythms of a crew working side by side in close quarters, to the profound solitude of a lighthouse keeper attending his skiff, works by Charles L. Peterson, Gerhard CF Miller, Robert von Neumann, and others preserve the gestures and ways of life that defined this world. This intimate collection asks us to look closely — and to witness something that continues to stir the imagination long after the moment has passed.

Maritime Moments invites us into the quiet poetry of life on the water — maritime life as both deeply shared and deeply personal. From the communal rhythms of a crew working side by side in close quarters, to the profound solitude of a lighthouse keeper attending his skiff, works by Charles L. Peterson, Gerhard CF Miller, Robert von Neumann, and others preserve the gestures and ways of life that defined this world. This intimate collection asks us to look closely — and to witness something that continues to stir the imagination long after the moment has passed.

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A year-round art museum located in the heart of historic downtown Sturgeon Bay on Wisconsin's Door Peninsula, fostering the creative life of the community.

About the Miller Art Museum

Founded in 1975 through the generosity of Gerhard and Ruth Miller, the Miller Art Museum is Door County’s year-round center for exhibition, education and creative enrichment in the visual arts and the Peninsula’s only fine art museum, housing a dynamic permanent collection of 20th c. Wisconsin art. The Museum’s main gallery features regularly changing exhibitions, embracing a wide range of subjects and media, both historic and contemporary; the second floor Gerhard CF Miller wing surveys the extraordinary life and work of celebrated dean of Door County artists Gerhard CF Miller.

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