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
Dale Galgozy
Composer-Lyricist
Writing Credits
2012 & 2023: ‘Picture This’ a musical play; Music and Lyrics, Dale Galgozy; Book, Dale Galgozy and Isabel Brinegar.
2000: Stop Look And Listen (Writer-Producer) 30 min music documentary.
2003: Hillbilly IDOL, The Art Of Making Music (Writer-Producer) 15 min music documentary.…
Clarissa Jakobsons
Artist-Poet-Instructor
Clarissa Jakobsons, artist and poet instructed various art and writing courses at Cuyahoga Community College. Her art has been exhibited widely including the Morgan, Cleveland Museum of Art, Baldwin Wallace College, The Artists Archive of Western Reserve, Words/Matter, Woman Made Gallery (Chicago), San Francisco State, and internationally, etc. She enjoyed a Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center residency. Sometimes she combines artist books with her monoprints, paintings, or poems.
Janice Lessman-Moss
Professor Emeritus
Lessman-Moss maintains a weaving studio in Kent, Ohio where she is Emeritus Professor at Kent State University. She has recieved numerous Individual Artist Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council. She was also awarded the prestigious Governor’s Award for the Arts in Ohio, the Cleveland Arts Prize Lifetime Achievement Award, and a United States Artists Fellowship. Her work been presented throughout the United States and internationally.
Jenniffer Omaitz
Artist / Educator
Omaitz lives in Kent, OH and works in Kent and Cleveland. She holds an M.F.A. in painting from Kent State University and a B.F.A (2009) in painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art (2002). Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at The Sculpture Center, Cleveland; SPACE Gallery, Denver; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland. Omaitz is a 2019 Ohio Arts Council grantee for an Individual Excellence Award.
Originally possessing a degree in design from Kent State University, I have come back to making art as a means of therapy through the traumas of widowhood and working in healthcare. My art subjects such as birth and death; women’s historical role as household domestic; rites of passage; societal issues; sexual and domestic abuse; home, place and belonging; the loss of a child; and mental illness.