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
Celene Hawkins
Visual Artist, Sculptor
Hawkins is a visual artist based in Cincinnati, OH. She creates public and private commission works as well as site furnishings and functional art. Her artistic practice covers a range of disciplines including sculpture, photo-based works, and installation art.
Her work is in a range of public, private, and corporate collections. She has a design and fabrication studio where she creates personal work and also does fabrication for clients and other artists. She is also a partner in Hawkins & Hawkins Custom, a parallel business.
Hiroshi Hayakawa
Professor
After completing his study with a BA in French Literature at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan, Hiroshi moved to the United States in 1991 to attend Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus Ohio. He earned BFAs in Photography and Fine Arts, then continued his study in Photography at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills Michigan for his MFA.…
Award winning artist Rod Hayslip holds a degree in Art Education. He has exhibited in group and solo shows throughout the United States and Japan and his art is included in private and corporate collections throughout North America. He became a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society in 2019 and was also given the “Award of Distinction” by Judge Kevin Mcpherson. He has studied with Pheoris West and Valerie Craig.
Rod currently resides in Central Ohio where he creates both in the studio and outdoors. He is the Lead Host for Central Ohio Plein Air (COPA), one of America’s most active outdoor art making groups. He is also a member of the Ohio Plein Air Society and the Worthington Area Art League.
David Heatwole
Artist/Painter
At 54 years old, David Heatwole is an eleventh-generation artisan who resides and creates in the shadows of the great city of Cleveland, Ohio.
AJ Heckman is a resident and native of Columbus, Ohio. Heckman has been a creative arts specialist in special needs early childhood education since 2018. He earned his BFA in Studio Painting and Drawing from Ohio University.
Heckman led and performed in a band as a singer, songwriter and guitar player from 2006 to 2014.…
Lee Heinen
Artist
Lee Heinen was born and received her early education in New Jersey. She began university on a full scholarship at Douglass, the Women’s College of Rutgers University and finished her BA (cum laude) at Ursuline College in Cleveland, Ohio. She has studied painting and drawing at the Cleveland Institute of Art and art history at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. …
Jessica Held
painter, photographer, teaching artist, small business owner, festival coordinator
Jessica Held is a painter and photographer based in Athens, Ohio. She exhibits and publishes her work and also creates functional art for her small business, Flux and Function LLC. Jessica is the Community Marketplace Coordinator for the Ohio Pawpaw Festival and recently collaborated on publishing a pawpaw-inspired anthology. Passionate about fostering creativity and community, she brings extensive experience as a teaching artist to her roles.…
Gae Helton
Beavercreek OH 45440
AIP – Commercial Art
AIC – Web design
Art Academy of Cincinnati – Watercolor
K12 Gallery- Mosaics
1985 – 2015 Graphic designer, graphic print technician for packaging, Illustrator and Photoshop
2017 – Present – mural design and mosaics
Art Fellows Dayton 2017
Dayton Metro Parks Riverscape – Sewer Riser 2020
Dayton Metro Library – Northmont – Glass Mosaic 2022
Kroger Woodman Dr – Entrance Mural 2022
Kat D Hendrickson is a Columbus, Ohio-based artist with roots in Belpre, Ohio. Known for her vibrant and evocative paintings, charcoals, printmaking, and collage work, Kat creates under the distinctive brand, SilentStagePunk Art. Her pieces, often inspired by the raw energy of street art, music, and her own life experiences and dreams, have garnered attention for their dynamic compositions and bold expressiveness. Kat’s work resonates deeply with bands, brands, and individual clients, capturing emotions and stories that leave a lasting impact.
Creating art since childhood, Kat draws continually from her life’s journey and is driven to share her unique vision with others. In addition to her career as a professional artist, she is also a dedicated elementary art teacher, inspiring young students to explore their own creativity. With her ever-evolving style, Kat pushes creative boundaries, making art that’s both memorable and thought-provoking, while igniting inspiration in others through her passion and authenticity.
Madison Hendry (b.1985, Cleveland, OH)
Madison Hendry received her MFA in Sculpture from Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY in 2011. Madison studied under the influential conceptual artists Vito Acconci, Blane de St. Croix and Tom Scicluna. Madison’s works on Motherhood have been exhibited internationally, including her most recent exhibition with the Museum of Motherhood, “Threads of Connection; Sorry, Not Sorry” (2024), ProCreate Project, “Mother Art Prize”, Cromwell Place, London (2020), Solo Exhibition, “Mother/Infant,”Unperceived Existence, Gallery Shush, Europe (2018), “Project AfterBirth,” Whitechapel Gallery, London (2015); the first ever international exhibition on the subject of early parenthood.…
Mackenzie Henry
Vocalist, Photography, Projects & Initiatives
A northeast Ohio native, Mackenzie (she/they) attended Kent State University (KSU), obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Integrated Studies for Music and Sociology. While at KSU, she studied with renowned tenor Timothy Culver, and GRAMMY award winning artist Dr. Jay White. She appeared in numerous Kent State University Opera productions, such as the world premiere of Story of an Hour by Scott Little, Die Fledermaus (Strauss), and Le Doctor Miracle (Bizet).…
Michelle Herman is Professor Emerita of English at The Ohio State University, where she taught for 34 years and was a founder of the MFA Program in Creative Writing. Her most recent book–her ninth–is the novel Close-Up. Stories in essays in a wide range of periodicals, including The Sun, Conjunctions, and O the Oprah Magazine. She writes a weekly column for Slate that you can find at https://slate.com/author/michelle-herman.
Dan Hernandez
Professor
Dan Hernandez received a BFA in 2000 from Northwest Missouri State (Maryville, MO) and a MFA in 2002 from American University (Washington, DC). Hernandez’s paintings explore the visual dialog between religion, mythology, and pop culture. He is represented by Kim Foster Gallery (NYC), Galeria Meraki (Ponte de Sor, Portugal) and 20 North Gallery (Toledo, OH).…
Lisa Hernandez is a Columbus, Ohio based artist working primarily with acrylic on canvas. Her work has the intention of causing reflection about the way people relate to each other and the world, while keeping a sense of fun and playfulness.
For me the most exciting painting is the painting I haven’t yet made, those problems I haven’t yet solved. Making paintings, is a difficult proposition and I know that one really never learns how to paint. For me, each painting is a mistake, asking a question that points toward the possibility of the next painting. What I want for my paintings is that painting on the other side of Rembrandt’s easel, the one that has not been revealed. Almost four centuries his painting still asks questions about painting and the future of painting. The painting unseen. I want that!
Richard Heyman
President
I am a published author with some 25 books of fiction, poetry, and historical data. I am a professional artist with over 400 oil and carbon portrait paintings and sketches featured on FineArtAmerica.com. I am an award winning poet who won multiple awards in 2006 and 2007 for my poetry
Julie Hickman
Artist
Juju Art Project is the brainchild of the artist (me) Julie Hickman. Like many Julie’s out there, Juju was the preferred nickname that stuck with me throughout childhood. It also serves as the optimized state of mind in which to make my most personal artwork.
My life was one where the arts, in all its forms, were always an intense draw but at the same time elusive.…
Mikelle Hickman-Romine
Craft Artist, Poet
Mikelle Hickman-Romine is an Ohio craft artist who has been working professionally for more than two decades. She is a graduate of Simon’s Rock Early College with an Associate’s Degree earned at age 18. She then decided that academia and the arts are not always the same path and left higher education to pursue a course of self instruction. After reading an article on gourd stitch in 1999, she began to experiment with the technique, eventually pushing its boundaries and combining it with wire work to begin making a unique style of work she calls “fine beadwork.”
Mikelle is also an award winning poet.
She lives in Columbus with her husband, poet and playwright Philip Hickman. She is an neglectful but joyful gardener nourishing several native plants and a few specimens of historic roses, her favorite one a viciously barbed but gorgeous apricot blend named the Alchymist.
Beth Himsworth is a local Columbus artist who creates unique fused glass and mosaic wall-mounted panels and windows for residential, hospital and university environments. Her fused glass and mosaics offer the same stunning colors and textures as traditional stained glass but add the intriguing dimension of far greater detail; often with thousands of hand-cut pieces of glass in a single panel. Following 18 years living abroad, she brings to her work a deep appreciation of nature and culture in its beauty and diversity. Her contemporary, stylized nature themes provide a sense of serenity and beauty in a workspace.
Kathryn Hinton
Fine Arts,ceramics and Mixed media Artist
Kathryn Hinton describes herself as a Fine Arts Mixed Medium Abstract Artist. She uses a variety of materials, including: acrylic paint, dried pigments, watercolor, gauche, metallic and black drawing pens, paperclay, and liquid and spray inks.