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
Holly Brians Ragusa
Current President for OPA- Poet/Writer/Speaker/Activist Ohio Poetry AssociationBio
Holly Brians Ragusa (she/her/hers), is author of award-winning memoir Met the End, and interdisciplinary writer, poet, speaker & activist. Contributor to Psychology Today and Opinion contributor to The Cincinnati Enquirer and USA Today, her research & presentations speak to students & organizations across the country. Other works include Dying to Know Myself In Time & poetry collections, Inverse; Informed Thoughts By An Unfit Poet and Tilt a World. Currently serving as President for the Ohio Poetry Association, HBR also serves a range of nonprofits, literary & creative endeavors, & is entrenched in the community. Believer in the underestimated powers of baked goods & kindness, when not reading & writing, she is wishing she was. Holly, a Cincinnatian first & cosmic citizen always, with her family, calls historic Over-the-Rhine, home. Hollybriansragusa.com
Artist Statement
Collectively and individually, we sink and soar on the power of words; may each of my words edge us towards a more dignified, just, less combative world.
Through my poetry, writing, research and nonprofit work, I seek to uplift my fellow human, thwart shame and share untold stories. People. Place. Page.