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
I create award winning artwork. Specializing in pin-ups, paintings and portraits, my goal is to candidly capture the personality of each subject. I love visual flow that entices the eyes and engages the mind. My work has been featured in a variety of venues, publications, books and album covers. Check it out at joyduffy.zenfolio.com
Sarah Dugger
Textile Designer, Painter
Sarah Dugger has 25 years experience in the commercial textiles and fine art fields. After graduating from Bowling Green State University in 1997 with a BFA in Surface Design she started working in NYC and San Francisco designing textiles for Nicole Miller, Victoria’s Secret and Pottery Barn. She was a part of the Salami Factory co-op in Fairfax, California which inspired her to pursue fine art painting. At present she is working across three disciplines; fine art painting, large scale murals and hand printing textile yardage. She is married to the love of her life, Howie Dugger, and together they have three children; Maisie, Tegan and Sidney.
Sharon Dundee
Artist/Art Instructor
Sharon Dundee received her BFA in graphic design and painting from Youngstown State University. In addition to more than 30 years of professional graphic design and adjunct teaching experience, her award-winning work in abstract-expressionist analogue collage and mixed media painting has been exhibited nationally in the U.S. and is among several private collections. She is the founder and instructor of Artful Aging Classes – targeting a senior adult audience 55+ in Northeast Ohio.
Myles Dunigan
2D Studio Manager and Lecturer
Myles Dunigan is an American artist and educator born in Massachusetts. His work addresses ecological anxieties and the role of technology in imaging the natural world through the apocalyptic and the uncanny. Dunigan was trained as a printmaker at the Rhode Island School of Design and holds an M.F.A. from the University of Kansas. His recent exhibitions include the International Printmaking Center of New York, the Boston Public Library, the Far Eastern Museum of Fine Art in Khabarovsk, Russia, and Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco.…
Marlisa Dunn’s paintings have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries, art centers, and festivals throughout Ohio. From October 5, 2023 through January 31, 2024, eight of her works will be featured in the exhibition “Oil and Water, They do Mix” sponsored by the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE) Temporary Art Program. …
Duo Balalaika Duo Balalaika
Balalaika-Piano Duo
Our music merges multiple cultures through a rare combination of instruments – balalaika, piano, and voice, across continents, across time, and composers. Audiences are introduced to classic compositions, virtuoso variations, toe-tapping get up and dance music. Duo Balalaika repertoire includes original arrangements that mingle music from different worlds where you can experience innovative, musical relationships. Think film scores to tango, bluegrass to gypsy music, ragtime to romances. Every season offers new programming, discoveries of merging music from around the world.
The work I create comes from a sincere, introspective space where I seek to resolve issues of my identity. From childhood to adulthood, to fatherhood, and everything in between, every piece acts as a critical thinking session that brings me closer to a better understanding of self. This is communicated through figurative charcoal drawings and oil paintings that are rendered with such a care for detail that the power of my connection to the subject matter shines through.…
Gretchen Durst Jacobs earned her BFA from Wright State University in Dayton, OH, her MFA from the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH and studied at the New York Studio School, NY, NY. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in both group and solo shows. She was selected to complete a commissioned painting for Re-imaging Works, for the Main Metro Library in Dayton, Ohio. She’s attended multiple residencies nationally and internationally
SAGE DYE
Artist
SAGE DYE (b. 1998) is an American multidisciplinary artist from Sherwood, Oregon who currently works and resides in the midwest. In 2020 SAGE was chosen as a CFDA Future Fashion Graduate after finishing her Bachelors of Fine Arts at Kent State University. Her multidisciplinary work has been shown across the world in spaces such as LVL 3,Co-Prosperity, Hawthorne Contemporary, Jardin des Tuileries, Ace Hotel New York, Happy Gallery, and Impossible Art Gallery.…
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. …
Steven Edinger is an Athens, Ohio based photographer. He is actively engaged in artmaking
and has an interest in capturing experimental, abstract, nature-based imagery that mirrors some
of his vision loss/distortion that occurs with Glaucoma. Steve enjoys sharing his work with other
photographers as well as members of his community.
Through his art, he has found ways to also manage Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Borderline
BiPolar Disorder, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and anxiety.…
“Art is in my blood, it runs through my veins”…
Quite literally, Emily comes from a long line of artists. Starting with her Second Great Grandfather, Bernard Florer, who immigrated from Bavaria to Southeastern
Ohio, and painted beautiful landscapes and portraits out of house paint; to her grandfather, James Clyde Taylor, Jr. who painted signs, murals, and many many works of art in his hometown of New Matamoras. …
I paint on site and in the studio, I use sketches from life and Memory, and I employ both reference photographs and imaginary elements.…
Alexander Elerian
Digital Image Maker
Alex Elerian is a photographer and digital image maker with both a creative and an educational background.
Yvetta Eley
Director/Educator
My efforts are to use theatre in all its creative aspects to, educate, enlighten and to transform people. My gift is to use the educational tools that theater employs to add value to students’ lives and to nurture their positive development. Also, I seek to uplift the role of women in society throughout the diaspora.
I am a world traveler having been to five of the seven continents.…
Kim Elliott has won awards in national and regional art exhibitions and two artist-in-residence fellowships from the National Park Service. The competitions she enters tend to be juried by museum directors and curators of note, such as the Director of the National Folk Art Museum, the Curator-in-Charge of the Renwick Gallery in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Art, and the Director of the Butler Institute of American Art, all of whom honored her with awards. …
Groups Exhibition
Group Exhibition’s
• Cleveland Public Library Walz Branch photo contest 2016 Winner Wildlife Category
• Beck Center for the Arts First Annual Juried Photography Competition 2016
• Cleveland.com April, 27 2018 Winner of Facebook Photo Contest
• Cleveland Metroparks Chagrin Nature Center photo exhibition Oct 1, 2018 to Oct 31, 2018 – contestant.
• Cleveland Metroparks Chagrin photo exhibition 2019 – contestant
• Rock the Lake Photo Beach Contest: contestant 2019
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2019/02/lake-erie-looking-gorgeous-see-all-the-submissions-in-the-rockthelake-winter-beach-photo-contest.html
• Cleveland Photo Fest 2019 Good Goat Gallery Sell and Show event being held at the Good Goat Gallery in Lakewood, https://clevelandphotofest.org/cpf-good-goat-gallery-events/
• Key Tower online photo contest. 2019 Honorable mention
• Kerala Cleveland Photo Exchange Show May 2021 Cleveland Photo Fest
• Cleveland Photo Fest Dear Diary Show (May 1, 2021 to June 30, 2021)
• Cleveland Photo Fest I identify As Exhibition (April 30, 2021)
• Cleveland Photo Fest Speak in Images See in sound. June 2021
• Berea Fair County photo exhibition 4th place landmark photography color
• Berea Fair Ground exhibition 4th place human interest non-human non domesticated black and white
• Berea Fair Grounds 2nd place portrait black and white.
• Photographer’s Only show juried by Laura D’Alessandro at Stella’s Art Gallery. Sept 2021. 3rd place winner
• Second Annual Bricolage Show at Stella’s Art Gallery – contestant November 2021
• Art Possible Ohio – Accessible Expressions Ohio 2022 (AEO 22) exhibition and tour march 2022. Emerging Artist Category 3rd place winner.
Art Possible Ohio- Accessible Expression Ohio 2023 (AEO 23) exhibition and tour 2023. Emerging Artist Category . Winner of Family Category for my
Photograph.
Cleveland Photo Fest Fourth Annual Exhibition Unity through Photography exbibit.
Certificates of Completion Cleveland Public Library
• Photography Nature with your Digital Camera April 13, 2020
• Discover Digital Photography December 31, 2020
• Photographing People with Your Digital Camera March 5, 2021
Publications and Articles
• Newpaper Article “The Gordon Square Print “2016 Winner of Adult Nature category
Elizabeth Emery is a multidisciplinary artist working in various mediums and across genres. Her sculptures and paintings reference movement, gravity, and the experience of the body in chaotic surroundings. Her work has been exhibited at museums and galleries across the United States including Museum of Modern Art Cleveland, Hammond Harkins Gallery, and Bunnell Arts Gallery in Alaska.…
Meryl Engler grew up in Huntington Beach, California and moved to Akron, Ohio in the fall of 2019. She is inspired by hidden landscapes in our environment and the relationships we form to it and each other.
Daniel Erdman
Musician/Composer/Author/Publisher
Dan is a singer/songwriter/musician, a member of Cincinnati “ArtsWave Artists”, Cincinnati Arts Association “Artists in Healing”, as well as fiction & non-fiction author. He minored in classical guitar and plays piano, Native American flute, bass guitar and banjo and has written 80+ songs. He co-authored a Yoga book with his friend & mentor, Roger Null in 2007 – Yoga for the 21st Century Man – Fitting Yoga into a Busy Man’s Life, and published a fantasy/spiritual novel – Caterin’s Story, A Gift of Flowering Stone.