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. 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
Born in Lima, Ohio. Trained at both The College Conservatory of Music at The University of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky University. Has worked extensively throughout the Midwest regional theatre scene, particularly in the Cincinnati and Columbus Areas.
Padma Chebrolu
Artistic Director
Padma Chebrolu is an accomplished teaching and performing dance artist and is the artistic director of the Cultural Centre of India (CCI) which she founded about 30 years ago in Cincinnati. Her exemplary artistic abilities, leadership and creativity have created tremendous impact on the arts education and public appreciation for the heritage arts in Ohio’s schools and community organizations.…
Born : San Rafael, CA
Education: U. of Cincinnati.- DAAP, B.F.A. – 1976: Art Education & Painting
U. of Montana – College of Fine Arts, M.F.A. – 1979: Painting & Sculpture
AWARDS
2016: recipient of the Elementary Division Award= (Elementary Art Teacher of the year), State of Ohio by Ohio Art Education Association.…
Art has tightly held my heart since childhood and ultimately became a spiritual journey of learning to trust my inner voice. My art making is always evolving, intuitive, soul nourishing and FUN. My personal Mantra “ Look for Joy and Listen for Guidance” is embedded in my art practice. My pieces are full of color and spirit, whether figurative or abstract. I continue to learn and push myself to create art that can inspire and uplift.. I am open to serendipity and chance both in art and life and trust that the unexpected can lead to amazing things.
Vince GRAY
Artist
Vince Gray a self taught Pointillism Artist from Cincinnati i been painting since 2005 and have shown in local and National Galleries and have won multiple awards for my art .
For me the most exciting painting is the painting I haven’t yet made, those problems I haven’t yet solved. Making paintings, is a difficult proposition and I know that one really never learns how to paint. For me, each painting is a mistake, asking a question that points toward the possibility of the next painting. What I want for my paintings is that painting on the other side of Rembrandt’s easel, the one that has not been revealed. Almost four centuries his painting still asks questions about painting and the future of painting. The painting unseen. I want that!
David Jarred
Creative Director
David has worked on film productions including award winning films like Carol, Judas and The Black Messiah, and action blockbusters like The Avengers and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Working on these productions David learned how to build specialized rigs for cameras and lighting. These skills have come in handy for our art practice as they boil down to how to make special equipment move safely and how to install heavy items. He brought this knowledge to Golden Brown along with management, production, and technical skills.
Kim Krause is a Cincinnati native whose paintings have been included in over 150 exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including 15 solo exhibitions. He earned an MFA in Painting from Bard College, New York. He retired in 2018 as professor of Art at the Art Academy of Cincinnati where he was Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Academic Dean.
He is represented by Miller Gallery.
Becky Linhardt
artist/photographer
A graduate of the University of Cincinnati, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, I am actively an Artist/Photographer/Writer/Designer. Currently I am most active in the visual arts: abstract paintings (oil on canvas) and color photography.
Lipps grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated Moeller High School in 2001. Lipps attended the school of visual arts at Kent State University from 2001-2005. After leaving Kent State, Lipps joined the Hamilton County Sheriff’s department in July of 2005 and became a corrections officer, and attended the Sheriff’s Police academy in 2007. While working for the Sheriff’s office Lipps continued to practice painting and rented out a studio space at Essex Studios.…
Tom paints portraits, commissions, landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes and outer space scenes. He also creates art machines using living mobiles, light guiding devices, whirly-gigs, biogenetics to paint with, math formulas for profile generation, mobiles of cut out silhouettes and marble sculpting. Tom is driven to create. He started as a portrait painter because he could quickly get a likeness and emulate the old masters now he paints what he or his clients want.
Lisa Merida-Paytes
Visual Artist
Lisa Merida-Paytes holds a M.F.A. from the University of Cincinnati 1997 and B.F.A. from the
Art Academy of Cincinnati 1991. Her work has been featured in exhibitions and publications nationally and internationally for 23 years.
She has taught all levels and served in professional positions, Gallery Director at FUNKe FIRED ARTS 2007-11 and Art Director/Founder of the Kennedy Heights Art Center 2004. Appointed as Co-Liaison for NCECA Conference held in Cincinnati 2021, she served as NCECA Board Member 2020-2021.
She published her own curriculum on Paperclay. Her work is featured in Ceramics Ireland Issue 45 2021 & Issue 39 2017, 500 Figures in Clay Volume II 2014, Best of 500 Ceramics: Celebrating a Decade Clay 2012, Studio Ceramics: Advanced Techniques, (Cover artist) 2010, Pottery Making Illustrated, July 2009 (Cover artist), Raku, Pit & Barrel 2007, Ceramics Monthly October 2006, 500 Raku 2010 and 500 Animals 2006
Joe Pearce
Joe Pearce Fine Artist and Writer
Award winning fine artist and writer Joe Pearce was born in Albuquerque, NM, and raised in Indianapolis, IN. He holds a B.S. degree in Secondary Education, Social Studies from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and has studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and with private art instructors. A long time Cincinnati resident, he occupies a studio at the Pendleton Art Center in the Pendleton neighborhood of Cincinnati and creates art and writes from his home and there.
Paul Rienzo is an award-winning artist in Cincinnati, Ohio. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including an article in American Artist’s Watercolor Magazine. He has shown around the US, including a solo exhibition in New York City’s Soho district. In 2021, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the international Art Comes Alive exhibition. Paul is also an experienced juror and three-time author.
Kate Spencer
owner
Having settled in Cincinnati 25 years ago after a lifetime of moving around the US from border to border and coast to coast, Kate is a retired college professor of English who has taken up a second career as a quilter, making miniature patchwork quilts for wall hangings and table runners. I have been inspired by the example of my maternal grandmother, Georgia, who also took up quilting in later life and who designed many of her own quilts, and by her mother, Pearle, who created many beautiful works in a variety of textile crafts-quilting, sewing, embroidery, crocheting, and lace-making.
Connie Springer
Artist
Connie Springer is a watercolor artist with a penchant for storytelling. She is also a photographer, and in both media, painting and photography, she demonstrates a keen visual sense and a strong interest in people. Her style has been described as evocative and interpretive.
I am a Cincinnati native. With the exception of my years studying in Chicago, I spent my career as an Art educator in Cincinnati. My teaching experience was diverse and driven by my own love of making Art and sharing my passion of the creative process. It was always important for me to remain active as an artist in the local community by participating in shows as much as I could while teaching.
Retired from teaching, I am now fully immersed in my own work and exhibiting. I have been engaged in Encaustic painting and Coldwax painting for more than 30 years. I am a member of the Encaustic Art Institute of New Mexico.
Christina Wald specializes in illustration, toy and giftware design, and product design. She has illustrated over 60 children’s books and done artwork for many other books, comics, magazines, packaging, and products.
She graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a degree in Industrial Design.
John Weller’s passion for photography began quite by accident when he purchased a digital camera for his wife’s birthday in 2004. Largely self-taught, he has supplemented his education attending workshops by Stephen Johnson and John Paul Caponigro. After nearly 30 years working in the technical fields of engineering and network administration he decided to pursue photography as a full time endeavor in 2012.…
Mark Wiesner
Sculptor
Mark Wiesner, a sculptor, is a native Cincinnatian. He is a graduate of Edgecliff College in Cincinnati where he received his BA with a concentration in Art and he went on to receive a Masters from the Athenaeum of Ohio in Religious Studies. Mark shares a studio at the Pendleton Art Center with his wife Jan, who is also a sculptor. He is represented by Caza Sikes Gallery, Cincinnati, Gallery 708, Cincinnati and by Singulart, an international online gallery based in Paris, France.