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.
2024 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Patricia Acker
Author, Illustrator
I am a retired healthcare Social Worker with experience in long term care, adult daycare, home health care and sixteen years of hospice care. I was a childbirth and breastfeeding educator while I raised a family and attended college part-time. I parented my five teens, including one “adopted” at age 13 , as a single mom, worked fulltime and attended graduate school in counseling. I have been a life-long volunteer, including providing an unpaid home for pregnant teens and often their babies. I am active in my church and have a very deep and personal faith in God. I have loved art but was not formally trained. I use art to help me to stay grounded, to find my peaceful center as I get lost in the process of art. I have done many portraits, including animals. I have written two books and I am working on writing and illustrating the third! Art keeps me grounded!
Michael Bankhead
owner, songwriter, artist, podcaster
Dayton Ohio’s Mike Bankhead is an artist’s artist in every sense of the word. While most know him as a bass player and songwriter, Bankhead has unlimited reach and talent. All of this is wrapped up in a man whose raw passion for the art bleeds through everything Mike Bankhead does. Humble enough the Ohio artist has experience writing music for full band compositions, guitar rock, and multilingual accompaniments.…
Michael Casselli
Chair of the Arts Division/Associate Professor of Sculpture and Installation/Interim Creative Director Herndon Gallery
Michael Casselli has been interested in the hybridization of forms and media since he received his undergraduate degree in visual arts/performance theory from Antioch College in 1987. While at the college, he staged large-scale outdoor mixed media performance installations, whose primary focus was an attempt to clarify issues of sense-based perception and the physicality inherent in performative work.…
I work with clay, bronze, and mixed media. Some of my work has its roots in ancient cultures, in which natural atmospheric forces are often personified as gods and goddesses. For example, in ancient Greece, times of day, heavenly bodies, and the earth were embodied in mythical persona. My pieces speak of the beauty and flow of the natural world, and they reflect my concern for and love of the earth.
In my novels, The Race is Not Given (1999) and Rendered Invisible: Stories of Blacks & Whites, Love & Death (2010), and other works, I examine racism, racial reconciliation, resilience, and hope. I have published scholarship on Black literature, film, and pop culture. I am a playwright and poet. My newest book, A Leader with Courage: The Impact of Cardiss Collins is about a trailblazing Black leader who overcame tragedy to serve in Congress for over two decades, fighting on behalf of minorities, woman, and the poor. My work is rooted in my faith and my working-class background.
Jack Earley was born and raised in Xenia OH, and has lived in New York, California, Arizona, Minnesota and North Dakota. He has lived in Ohio (again) since 1994. He started his professional art career in 1986, having over 40 art galleries across the United States handling his work, with many one-man shows/openings and group shows. …
Gae Helton
Beavercreek OH 45440
AIP – Commercial Art
AIC – Web design
Art Academy of Cincinnati – Watercolor
K12 Gallery- Mosaics
1985 – 2015 Graphic designer, graphic print technician for packaging, Illustrator and Photoshop
2017 – Present – mural design and mosaics
Art Fellows Dayton 2017
Dayton Metro Parks Riverscape – Sewer Riser 2020
Dayton Metro Library – Northmont – Glass Mosaic 2022
Kroger Woodman Dr – Entrance Mural 2022
Jon HUDSON
Master Fine Arts
I was born in Montana in 1945 & at age 6 we moved to Saudi Arabia for three years, which began my travels all round the world. Since receiving my MFA in 1972 from Cal-Arts, followed by 2 years at a CA gold mine, I have been creating large-scale sculpture projects for public environments throughout the States & in 27 countries round the world — 24 throughout China alone.
Jeffrey Smith
Owner
I grew up in Dayton, flew with the USAF and retired to Dayton where I pursue landscape photography. I chase sunsets/twilights. I also create images using Evidence-based design (EBD) principles. EBD is an approach where researchers realized that people feel relaxed, heal faster, and become more productive when surrounded by certain calming images of nature. I hope these vibrant prints bring you a few moments of peace and solitude.
Primarily I am a landscape photographer, though I love including people in my work enjoying the natural world around them, as well as street photography when I am in new or exciting locations. I also enjoy night photography, so I try to find places where light pollution is minimal to better bring out the majesty of the night sky.…
Alisa H. Workman is a visual artist in Beavercreek, OH who paints “lightly abstract floral works … renderings of bold flowers with rich splashes of color”. A lifelong Ohio resident, she received a BS in Geology with a concentration in crystallography from Wright State University. After years of flower gardening and creating plantings, mosaics, and other garden installations, Alisa picked up a paintbrush in 2015.