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.
2025 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Claudia Esslinger
Professor of Art
Claudia Esslinger is a visual artist working experimentally with a variety of media, from sculptural installations to multiple channel video projects. She is interested in connecting current technologies with visceral materials. She collaborates with writers, musicians, dancers and scientists to develop her projects for gallery exhibition, screenings and publication.
Barry Gunderson lives in Gambier, Ohio, where he has taught sculpture at Kenyon College since 1974. He retired from teaching in 2015 but has not retired from his studio work. Interpretations of water, contorted figures with peculiar thought bubbles, sculptural architecture based on Northern English row houses, French Gardens, and just “Useless Metal Objects” have kept him busy in the studio.…
After over 40 years working in (and teaching) film/video production, I returned to my first love of sculpture and to my childhood home of Gambier, Ohio. I work in wood, as local and non-exotic as possible, making small pieces and showing them in the region. I have been shown at the Mansfield Art Center, the Dairy Barn, The Schnormeier Gallery, and The Galleries on High (