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
BARBARA ERY
Executive Director
I am Executive Director of Papercircle in Nelsonville, Ohio. This is a small nonprofit arts organization. Our mission is to teach others about paper making an book arts. My goal is become a Paper marker. To learn the craft skill and art form so that I can mentor and teach others about this method and make sure the process continues.
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.
Donna Estep
Mixed Media Artist
As a child of the 80’s, Donna McCarty-Estep’s nostalgia drives her creativity. Inspired by popular culture, she pulls inspiration from movies and literature to create portraits that evoke those same feelings in others. With a mix of stencil and direct painting, fun is the purpose and the end result.
Donna McCarty-Estep is a multi-disciplinary painter, printmaker, and arts facilitator that calls Columbus, Ohio home. …
Brittney Esther
Graphic Designer +Communications Specialist
As an experienced graphic designer with a rich eight-year background spanning both corporate and non-profit sectors, I embarked on my creative journey after earning my undergraduate degree from Kent State University in 2016. Since then, I have ardently contributed to the realms of art and design. Amidst the rigors of my professional responsibilities, I take great pleasure in cultivating my artistic talents within the confines of my home studio.…
Kaylynn Etienne
Artist
Hello!
I am an artist, mother and graduate of Columbus College of Art and Design. Art is and has always been an outlet for me to deal with the stresses of life and anxiety. I focus in oil panting and some mixed medi.
Katie Evans
Colored Pencil Animal Portrait Artist
I am a colored pencil animal portrait artist in Northwest Ohio. I work from customer’s photos to capture their animal’s true personality. I love have the best job ever!
Tom Evert
Executive and Artistic Director
I have enjoyed a world-class career as a dancer, but my art beginnings were as a visual art student in high school. I found that as a dancer I could be both an athlete and an artist. I received Fine Arts degrees in both Painting and Dance from Ohio University. I have enjoyed an award-winning career choreographing dances and teaching. My work ranges from highly produced theatrical works to creating educational programs in schools. As a visual artist, my painting and sculptural work is primarily figurative, and celebrates the expression of the human spirit through representational and abstract approaches to the figure.
rae faba is an artist, sister, daughter, friend, lover, fighter, teacher, star-gazer & bass player. she lives around the great lakes with two troublemaking dogs and a giant tropical hibiscus named “bertha.” rae was educated at pratt institute and the university of akron.
With a B.F.A. from Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) and an M.F.A. from Kent State University, teaching as an adjunct professor at CIA, Notre Dame College, and visiting artist at East Carolina University, I find being an artist is WHO I AM. I find creating abstract paintings gives me the most satisfaction.
An accomplished American Painter, my art has graced collections globally. After over two decades in China, contributing to diverse creative fields, I’ve returned to the USA, expanding my art presence since August 2023. Drawing inspiration from Art Nouveau and figure form elegance, I use symmetrical techniques to create unique visual dialogues. With a philanthropic focus, I’ve donated to charities like Arts for Hearts. My ongoing research explores art as a bridge between past, present, and future personifications, evident in recent works at the TESA Center in Taiwan.
Past experiences and current social and political trends affecting local community provide her with fuel for art making. A union strike sign, Scantron test form, negotiation paper or a discarded shooting target become materials necessary to signify the psychology of current adverse realities that many people face in their daily lives. Her creative re use and reorganization of these nontraditional materials become a dynamic visual format to encourage valuable commentary and discussion among viewers.…
Angela is a native of Ohio. She has been involved with learning about and creating visual art for several decades. Her places of learning have included the fine art and studio art. programs at Kent State University, The Toledo University and Denison University; classes at the Peggy R. McConnell Arts Center, the Columbus Cultural Arts Center, and the American Academy of Equine Art. …
I have working woman’s hands because I use them often and hard to construct wonderfully strong female figures. These figures have stories to tell you.
Originally from Holland, Ohio, Craig Fisher is a 1976 graduate of the University of Toledo. With the exception of a year of study in Europe, he has lived most of his life in Northwest Ohio.
He is a mid-career artist who is unapologetic about being very much a “local kid”. His commercial career spans over three decades as a graphic designer, art director and commercial illustrator. He has worked for over 35 years in advertising agencies and visual learning companies where he has honed his talent for conceptualizing and employing metaphors to teach and engage.
Craig studied with local watercolor artist, Walter Chapman while still in high school. He studied under Diana Attie, Peter Elloine and John Botts as a fine art student at The University of Toledo. He credits the University and its teachers for his love for printmaking and a natural curiosity for the potential of line and form.
Craig currently lives in Sylvania Township with his wife Marian. His studio, Ibis Press, is in his home where he joins the traditional with the contemporary as he pushes the medium of intaglio etching into new directions.
Kiera Fisher
Mixed Media Artist
Kiera Fisher is a Columbus-based Muralist and Mixed Media Artist who embraces bold, brilliant, and vibrant colors, patterns, and imagery to create art that makes you think, and makes your inner child jump for joy. She draws inspiration from her surroundings, incorporating her lived experiences into her work, which frequently depicts figures and their relationship to people, places, and things.…
I wouldn’t be where I am —anywhere near — without my middle school art teacher, Ms Deanna Pfarr. Actual schoolwork, in Middle School, was only the bare minimum. The majority of class time, any classes and all classes, was drawing and doodling. When it was beginning to really get me in trouble, grade wise and parental wise, somehow Ms.…
Caitlin Fitzgerald
Artist Muralist
Caitlin Fitzgerald is an artist and muralist based in Toledo, Ohio. She has worked with The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo in the Young Artists At Work Program, The Toledo Museum of Art and most recently, The Friends of the Children Fundraiser in Klamath Falls, Oregon.
Jason is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer, and Industrial Designer who seeks to improve people’s lives through storytelling and design.