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
Morgan Free
Artist
Morgan Rose Free is a Canadian artist predominantly working in sculptural assemblage. Based in Columbus OH, she is a cofounder of Dream Clinic Project Space and currently holds the title of Assistant Professor of 3D Art and Interim Gallery Director at Muskingum University. She has participated in exhibitions and residencies across North America and has been awarded grants from The Canada Council for the Arts, MyMA and the Greater Columbus Arts Council.
In love with art since 1978, I was clear this was my path as a small child. Educational background includes Ohio University College of Fine Art, Columbus College of Art and Design, on-the-job training in graphic design, self directed study, additional private and public instruction with professional painters.
Youngwon is an abstract artist who is also a classical pianist and an educator. Her arts explore combinations of raw human emotions and rhythmical sound properties through organic shapes. Although she’s trained as a pianist, creating arts has been an outlet of creative expression and freedom for most of her life.
Allen Friedman
MAVERICK ARTISTIC
MAVERICK ARTISTIC
Allen j. Friedman, the creative force behind Maverick Artistic, channels cosmic vibes into bold art, fashion, and music from his dynamic studio. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, this awe-inspiring studio transcends conventional boundaries. Witness the captivating fusion of celestial energy as it materializes into stunning stainless metal sculptures, vibrant wall art, space-inspired apparel, captivating storytelling, and unforgettable music.…
Staci Friedman is an award-winning artist known for her expressive floral watercolor and mixed media work. With a Fine Art degree in Visual Communications, she began her creative career in publishing and corporate retail before returning to painting in 2015. Volunteering at a local art studio reignited her passion and led her to explore watercolors.
Since 2018, her vibrant work has been featured in solo and group shows, earning her multiple grants and awards.…
Elisha Frontz was born in 1976 and has worked as an artist and a musician in her home town of Dayton, Ohio for almost 30 years.
Elisha graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art with a concentration in sculpture from the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 2004. She has taught art classes and workshops at the Dayton Art Institute and the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, as well as private lessons.
Finn Fuehrer
Artist
Finn Fuehrer is a contemporary conceptual and satirical artist from Cleveland, Ohio. His conceptual work explores the self and the boundaries of drawing and printmaking through natural circles of life and existence. His satirical work is an anti-capitalist, workers-rights-focused world of businessmen in absurdist situations. Fuehrer is currently studying Drawing at the Cleveland Institute of Art and will complete his BFA in 2026. When not meditating over a blank piece of paper or standing wistfully on a beach, Finn can be found encouraging curiosity and discovery as an Engagement Guide at moCa Cleveland.
Matt Gaberell
Artist
Matt lives in Columbus, Ohio and has spent most of his career working in Information Technology (IT). Although he has a degree in Information Technology from Franklin University, the pursuit of a life in art has always been his ambition. From a very early age he found ways to incorporate creativity into his daily life, whether that was copying cartoons from the Sunday paper or building snow sculptures during the Wisconsin winters.…
Timothy Gaewsky earned an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BFA from The Cleveland Institute of Art. He has exhibited both nationally and abroad including at the Ella Sharp Museum (Jackson, MI), Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, OH), AC Institute (New York, NY), and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam, NL). …
Stephanie is an active individual who enjoys photography- landscape and wildlife, playing music, hiking, and spending time with my Partner Mike and dog Socks.
Stephanie’s passion for photography began in in the 1980’s using film. She would journal the family vacations through photographs. Her favorite photography is wildlife, she is an avid hiker and takes her cameras everywhere – Back packing in California and Colorado.…
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.…
Ashley Gantz, PhD is a multidisciplinary artist, photographer, poet, and author with a Doctorate of Philosophy in Humanities, concentrating in English Literature. Based in Canton, Ohio, she combines her academic background with her creative practice to explore themes of romanticism, the gothic, identity, nature, and beauty. Her work, spanning poetry, fiction, prose, abstract painting, photography, fiber, and mixed media, delves into the visceral and philosophical dimensions of human experience.…
Forge Garrabrant
Mr.
Forge Garrabrant is an artist and craftsman that lives and works in Columbus, Ohio. He was born in Columbus and grew up on a farm in Galena, Ohio. He started his career working with glass at the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington state and continued his education at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio where he got his associates degree.…
Michelle Garrison
Artist
Michelle Renee Garrison was born on Valentine’s Day and grew up in Worthington, Ohio. Her interest in art began at an early age while attending youth classes at Columbus College of Art and Design. As a student at Thomas Worthington High School, she began to exhibit her paintings competitively at both local and state levels. After high school, she lived in both Arizona and Oregon and continued to show her works at local galleries.…
I am a self-taught artist from Fairborn, Ohio. Since 2018 I have been creating 3D miniature dioramas and buildings out of recycled cardboard and found objects. My inspiration comes from the historical and abandoned buildings that are located throughout Ohio. In July of 2023 my recreation of the Hope School House (located in Zaleski State Forest) was accepted into the 2023 Juried Art Exhibit at the Miamisburg Art Gallery in Miamisburg, Ohio.
Mona Gazala is a Palestinian-American artist currently living in Columbus, Ohio. She holds a Masters Degree from the Ohio State University in studio arts with a specialization in city/regional planning. Her practice, which is multi-disciplinary and often socially engaged, explores and exposes dynamics of power and systems of oppression that often manifest in built (and destroyed) structures, neighborhoods and environments.…
Timothy Geiger is the author of the poetry collections Weatherbox, (winner of the 2019 Vern Rutsala Poetry Prize from Cloudbank Books), The Curse of Pheromones (Main Street Rag, 2008) and Blue Light Factory (Spoon River Poetry Press, 1999) and ten chapbooks, most recently Holler (APoGee Press 2021). He is also the proprietor of the literary fine-press Aureole Press at the University of Toledo, where he is a professor in the Department of English Language and Literature teaching creative writing, poetry, and letterpress printing.
Pam Geisel lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and spent her first career as a graphic designer, which is why her quilts often have a strong graphic quality. Her art has been included in national fiber exhibits in Oberlin, OH, Paducah, KY, and at the American Quilter’s Society’s Quilt Week in Lancaster, PA where she got an honorable mention.…
Matthew Geller
Artist
In the 1980s, Matthew Geller switched his studio practice from primarily sculpture to producing video works, reworking the structure and style of television storytelling. Beginning with his fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, he integrated his skills as a storyteller and sculptor by creating intimately observed worlds in miniature. For the past 20 years, he has taken these ideas, changed the scale, and extended the possibilities for site and a chaotic viewership by producing temporary and permanent public art.
Matthew Gellin
Executive Artistic Director & CEO
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