The Ohio Artist Registry (OAR) is an exciting opportunity for artists to share their work, connect with the creative community, and establish an online presence—all on a free, virtual platform! The OAR encourages artists working in all art forms, throughout Ohio and beyond, to create a profile, which allows them to better promote themselves and their work. Being listed in the OAR provides artists with new opportunities to share their work with clients, galleries, patrons, and audiences. A listing in the OAR does not confer an endorsement, approval, or verification by the Ohio Arts Council.
For more information, contact Kathy Signorino, artist programs director, at kathy.signorino@oac.ohio.gov or 614-728-6140.
Jennifer Ditlevson Haglund is a writer with a diverse background, having worked in news, education, and marketing.
Ditlevson Haglund was born in Oklahoma, lived in Nebraska, and eventually grew up in Northeastern Ohio. She earned a BA in English and Journalism at Ashland University, and an MA in English at Baylor University. Her work has been published in Refinery 29, Christianity Today, Christ and Pop Culture, and local newspapers.
Richard Hahn
Creative Photographer
Originally from Mount Kisco, New York, I grew up in Youngstown, Ohio, where I pursued a career in music after graduating form Youngstown State University. Over time my interest in photography morphed into a passionate pursuit of capturing life as it stretches out before me. Over the decades, photography became an integral part of marketing and branding business. Today, I strive daily to master my craft and create images that change people’s view of our world.
Ricki Hahn
Photographer & Owner
My background in art begins with growing up in an encouraging family. Hard work and education has allowed me to create my own business as well as help in guiding others in art. I am an award winning photographer & artist.
My name is Sean Hahn. I am originally from south west Ohio. I’m an artist that primarily works with acrylic and fiber.
I work in oil for its complexity, boldness and richness. I find with the vast array of solvents I am able to mold the oil paint into creations of movement with a conjunction of abstraction. The movement in each piece enables me to create some paintings that are soft and light, and others that are bold and dynamic. Often times my pieces are derived from nature or natural events that are meant to evoke thought and emotion through the movement and color in each piece.
BFA, Youngstown State University, Painting /Drawing
MFA, Ohio State University, Sculpture /Drawing
James is a professional engineer and artist, living and working in the Columbus area. Painting is his passion.
Joe’s upbringing by a compulsive, eclectic, stay at home mother and obsessive blue-collar father has instilled creativity and attention to details in his work ethic. Influenced by his mother’s vast art text library, professional artist friends, and National Geographic Magazines strewn about the childhood home, Joe has developed a fascination with the diversity of the human form and condition.
Julia Hamilton earned her Master of Fine Arts at Columbus College of Art and Design in 2019. Hamilton enjoys creating intricate line drawings and mixed media paintings in her hometown of Columbus, Ohio. She has loved creating art since childhood. Her artwork has been referred to as “graceful-yet-intense.”
Quinn Hanna
Ohio University BFA Student
Quinn Hanna is currently working on her undergrad at Ohio University studying ceramics inclusive of crafting pottery and ceramic sculpture. Starting ceramics at the age of 12, Quinn was featured in the Columbus Dispatch at age 16 followed by her acceptance into the School of Fine Arts at OU. She was awarded the 2022 Ohio Emerging Artist Award by the Ohio Designer Craftsmen. Quinn’s work currently explores the figurative area of sculptor utilizing matte surface development while often incorporating mixed media. The subjects of her pieces often reflect the subjects in her life and surroundings incorporating inspiration from natural forms.
Upon graduation, Quinn plans to pursue grad school to obtain a Masters in Fine Arts in hopes of teaching ceramics at the collegiate level.
Susan Hanna
Field of Poppies
Susan Hanna paints portraits of men and women in the news. Using her cell phone as a prop, she brings to life the complex personalities of politicians and pundits. Painting a glimmer of a smile or an intense keen searching gaze, Susan shows the characteristics of an individual and the experiences that go into the makeup of a significant life.…
21st Century Sculptor
Art has been produced by man since prehistoric times and has crossed all cultures. The Artist as visionary has existed within all societies. The Artist creates according to the cultures needs and the intensity of the Artists creative fire. The Artist is a transmitter of his personal life experiences blended with the influences of the world’s circumstances.…
Bio AdrianHardin
Biography
Adrian Hardin is an acrylic Artist born and raised in Cleveland Ohio. After graduating from The Ohio State University Adrian stated teaching elementary grades in The Cleveland Municipal Schools. The majority of her years teaching were in the subjects of math and science, but she always found time for art.…
My name is Colin Harmon-Ulmer, owner of the Columbus, OH-based photography/videography company “CHU Photographs, LLC”. Since graduating Kent State University in May of 2024 with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in photography, I have been steadily growing my photography business. Notable businesses and non-profits I have worked with include: Playbook Sports, Ronald McDonald House of Charities of Central Ohio, Mid-Ohio Food Collective, VARGO Solutions, “Ribbit!” Magazine, and Grove City Chamber of Commerce.…
Cassandra Harner is already familiar with thinking of herself in the third person, performing as alter-egos in music, drag, and comedy. She is a draglesque performer named Dusty Bucket, and a self-absorbed piece of art-work, Kay-T Critiques. She’s most recently been awarded Master of Amazement for Ohio Burlypicks 2020. She is a video artist and editor. She’s an illustrator and instructor of comics and pastel portraits. She has led classes in drag, camming, video art, and drawing. She’s an oversharer and radically vulnerable. She’s queer and kind of swears a lot.
In the pastiche of Cassandra’s artistic practice, there are two main pillars holding it aloft: camp and fashion. If her audience isn’t laughing or at least bewildered, she is not fulfilled. Art isn’t limited to being gravely nodded at, in quiet contemplation from a safe distance. (Although nowadays, everything should be a safe 6 feet away) Being “serious” isn’t the only way to make thoughtful and legitimate work, even when it’s about queer identity, pop culture, art theory, or capitalism. She may have more to reveal than just a wig underneath another wig underneath another wig.
Or maybe, she just loves a gimmick.
Jen P. Harris (b. 1977, she/they) is an artist, designer, and organizer based in Cleveland following significant stints in Los Angeles, New York, and Iowa City. Her work across media asks: how can art help us sense our entanglement, with each other and with a world that is never still and is always surprising?…
Mark Yale Harris realized his true passion – stone carving – in the 1990s. Having moved to Santa Fe, he was mentored by sculptors Bill Prokopiof (Aleut) and Doug Hyde (Nez Perce). Over the past twenty years, Harris has unrelentingly challenged and reveled in his creative side. Harris’ works in alabaster, marble, limestone and bronze express his perspective on the inherent duality in mans’ essence.…
Susanna Harris
Museum and Gallery Assistant
Susanna Harris, based in Columbus, Ohio, is an interdisciplinary artist working in print media, installation, and photography. Her work is situated at the intersection of resilience in environmental destruction, and through the human condition.