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
Biography
Gary Beeber is an award-winning American photographer and filmmaker who has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the world. He has had numerous solo photography exhibitions and his documentary films have been screened at over 150 film festivals. Pfizer Pharmaceutical, Goldman Sachs and Chase Bank are Fortune 500 companies who collect his work.
Diane Belfiglio (pronounced Bel FEE lee o) earned her B.F.A. in Drawing, Painting, and Graphics from The Ohio State University in 1978, and her M.F.A. in Painting from Syracuse University in 1980. Also in 1980, she was awarded a $6000 Aid-to-Individual- Artists Fellowship Grant from the Ohio Arts Council. Since that time, she has received numerous professional awards, including four Arts in Stark grants from 2011-2014.…
Kirsta Niemie Benedetti lives and works in Columbus, Ohio with her husband and two daughters. She completed her Bachelor’s degree at Columbus College of Art and Design and has worked as a freelance artist partnering with Minted and West Elm since 2015, and as a commissioned artist for patrons around the country.
Currently, Kirsta is launching The Whole Picture Project, an initiative to bring people together through art and storytelling.
Lauren Benjamin
Mixed Media Artist
Lauren Ashleigh is an artist of many mediums who earned her BFA in Studio Art in 2015. Known for adding sculptural and natural elements to paintings. She uses things like glass, joint compound, acrylic mediums, and found objects to build her pieces up. In 2016 Lauren had to begin navigating through new mental illness diagnoses that altered her entire life.…
Jaime Bennati is an artist whose practice is grounded in altering everyday materials and collections to create relief sculptures, collages and installations. Bennati is currently an upper school visual arts teacher at the Wellington School, and has previously served as an arts instructor at the Wexner Center for the Arts and Columbus College of Art & Design, and as a residence artist at the Universidade de Federal de Goias in Goiânia, Brazil.…
Best known for her vibrant and expressive use of acrylic paint and mixed media, Robie Benve expresses her creativity by utilizing paper, ink, markers, and fibers to craft pieces that embody the essence of her inspiration. Her work is characterized by the incorporation of intricate patterns and unique marks, resulting in a distinctive visual language that captures the imagination.
Born and raised in the culturally rich landscape of Italy, Benve stands as a testament to the transformative power of art. The first of her family to graduate from college, she earned an MBA from the University of Venice, Italy. In 2010, her journey led her to Columbus, Ohio, where she found the opportunity to pursue her artistic calling.
Over the years, her award-winning work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions across Ohio. Her creations have found a home in private collections in the United States, Spain, and Italy.
In twenty-two years as an art teacher, stateside and overseas, I eventually taught grades Pre-K thru 12th. Meanwhile I established myself as an installation artist, exhibiting in the Midwest and East Coast, with architectural-referenced works. Included in my pursuits were a number of fellowships and residencies. Lately my focus and materials have shifted to those structures in the natural world and their relationship to the structures of the human brain and nervous system. The presentation and materials of my works reflect my investment in process (how we see and comprehend) and in the expressive elegance of the simple and the natural material.
Mark Berger
Photographer
I was born in Columbus, Ohio. My interest in photography started just prior to entering college.I have worked in many different areas of Photography, Portraiture, Weddings, Sports, Performing Arts, Commercial/Industrial, Nature and Scenic Americana. Photography is a very direct graphic medium. When you see through the lens of the camera is what you expect to see in the print.
Deb Berkebile
Textile Artist and Instructor
Technology and nature inspire creator of Great Lakes quilt; Ohio woman turns satellite images, thermal photographs into art.
I am a naturalist and environmentalist at heart. My current body of work explores satellite imagery and creating ‘false-color’ artistic depictions of remote sensed satellite images (Geographical Information Systems). I have eight quilts in my “Earth in Three Bands: R, G, B” Series: The Painted Desert, Eye of Sahara, The Great Salt Desert, Susitna Glacier, The Grand Canyon, Galileo Inspiration, The Great Lakes and my latest Rocky Mountain Trench. The vivid colors and their outstanding variations are what first drew me to these representations. I also use other remote sensed imagery taken from our National Parks for my art. My first quilt in this series was inspired by a thermal image of an eruption of the Old Faithful geyser taken in Yellowstone National Park.
George Berlin
Creative Genius
George Berlin believes that deepening connections between people and the places they love is an incredible use of creativity. His studio’s unforgettable multi-sensory experiences build on emotion to create wondrous worlds that bring people together through projection mapping, light art, and live performances.
Keith Berr
Photographer
Keith Berr is an international advertising and fine arts photographer. A graduate of the Brooks Institute of Photography, he has developed a unique live/work compound in Cleveland’s Asia Town, where he holds frequent events, fundraisers and educational gatherings, helping people and organizations connect and share their strongest assets towards promoting the arts.
His clients include a broad range of major corporations, non-profit institutions, and small businesses. …
Isaac Beverly
Independent (expressionist) artists
My name is Isaac Beverly, I am 31 years old, and I am from Chillicothe, Ohio. I have a wonderful family with a loving Mother and Father along with three older brothers. I played sports throughout my youth and all the way to colligate level. However, my passion for art came after college where I attended Tiffin University.…
Sanjib Bhattacharya
Indian Dancer, Choreographer
Sanjib Bhattacharya, recipient of President’s Awards from Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam in 2006 and Smt. Pratibha Patil in 2011 is an accomplished Manipuri Dance Exponent, Guru and well-known Choreographer of India and abroad. He has received his training under the tutelage of Guru Bipin Singh, Padmashri Darshana Jhaveri, Kalavati Devi, Manjushree Chaki Sircar and Mamata Shankar. He is currently an established performer of great repute having extensively performed across India and abroad. He is not only performing as a solo artist, but is also performing with eminent Gurus and Icons of Indian Classical dances like Padmavibhushan Sonal Mansingh, Padmashri Darshana Jhaveri, Padmashri Ranjana Gauhar, and many other eminent gurus all over India and abroad. He runs several dance academies and institutions in India and Abroad while conducting Lecture Demonstrations and workshops regularly across the Globe. Currently Sanjib is living in Cleveland ,USA and Founder Director of Movements In motion ,teaching, performing, conducting workshop lecture demonstration, collaboration with the local Indian and multicultural community in US and CANADA, regularly creating a unique global choreographic presentation based on his Manipuri and Indian contemporary dance techniques as an Extraordinary Artist sponsored by Rainey Institute Cleveland.
Poet, musician, novelist.
Has organized poetry readings, open mic nights, started magazines (or helped with other peoples’ projects), was a founding member of a theater group that performed works they’d written themselves, helped behind the scenes as well as playing bit parts in 2 indy movies (a zombie in the crowd of attacking zombies, that sort of thing), organized home grown music festivals. Some of these things have been more successful than others. Along the way she’s been a member of Tinfoil, a Toledo area band that has released 14 albums, written hundreds of songs, one of which was used in an indy series called Certainty, and she’s released 2 books of poetry and three novels, the most recent of which was a finalist in the Faulkner competition.
To support these endeavors, she deals in used and rare books.
Mary Biddinger
Poet
Mary Biddinger’s latest poetry collection, Department of Elegy, will be published by Black Lawrence Press in early 2022. She has been the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. She teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Akron and NEOMFA program, and serves as poetry and poetics editor at the University of Akron Press.
I am a 22-year-old Artist born and raised in Ohio. I am self-taught with some recent college classes from the Artist Yan Sun at Muskingum University. I am currently enrolled at WGU getting my teaching degree and working as a special education assistant teacher at the same time.
Mackenzie is an accomplished photographer renowned for producing high-quality imagery tailored to Public Affairs, and storytelling purposes. With a career spanning 5 years, he has established himself as a visionary in both artistic and technical photography, excelling across diverse environments. Mackenzie’s Professional training was at the Defense Information School (DINFOS) in 2018, he learned industry practices in ethical storytelling through the collection of imagery.…
Sebastian Birch
Associate Professor of Music
Sebastian Birch (DMA Cleveland Institute of Music) teaches theory and compositions at Kent State Stark. His compositions have been performed at numerous festivals, and conferences including the Bowling Green New Music Festival. Detectio Sonoris was recently performed by flautist Mary Kay Fink and pianist Nicholas Underhill.
Michelle is a Columbus-based artist from Cincinnati, Ohio. She has loved art ever since she was a kid drawing on the bottom of the kitchen table. After obtaining her BA in Graphic Design, Michelle lived in China as an EFL teacher for five years, then went on to complete her Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from Lesley University. She continues to work as both an artists and graphic designer, and loves the sense of connection and belonging that art offers.
Botanicals and natural elements often have a place in my work. I find joy and excitement in experimenting with color and compositions. But what I really love is mixing mediums in unexpected ways.