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
As an idealistic dreamer, art is both an escape and the way I reach out to others. Leonardo Davinci once said that “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” I concur.
John Schlabaugh
Treasurer
John R Schlabaugh
I was was born in Warren ,Ohio. Loved Art since I was a preschool child. Studied Art @ Youngstown State University, Earned a BFA with a teaching certificate. I worked in Strouss Department Store , in the display Department for 3 years before becomming a union Painter with local 476.…
Samantha Schneider
Artist
Samantha Schneider, an accomplished oil painter originally from Grand Rapids, MI. Now residing in Shelby, OH, Schneider carved her artistic niche with massive figurative works that seamlessly blend drama and soft elegance. Specializing in self-portraiture, Schneider’s canvases come alive with emotive intensity and a profound connection to art history.
A proud alum of the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA), Schneider graduated in 2021 with a double major in painting and drawing.…
Lisa Schonberg is a printmaking artist working with a variety of processes including relief, intaglio, monoprinting, screenprinting and cyanotypes. Her subject matter and conceptual ideas are derived from an inquisitive observation of the natural world and the parallels that aspects in nature have with various conditions and stages in human life.
Lisa has an MFA in Printmaking from Kent State University and an BFA from Ohio University. …
Leni Schwendinger
Public Artist
Leni Schwendinger is an artist, designer and urbanist with more than 20 years of worldwide experience
creating illuminated environments. Her innovative interdisciplinary practice focuses city districts’ darkened
hours and includes innovative community involvement methodologies such as the “NightSeeing™,
Navigate Your Luminous City” program and evolved technologies. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at the
London School of Economics and a Design Trust for Public Space Fellow (NYC).
Don Scott
Visual Artist
As a Virginia native, Don grew up surrounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains, treasuring the natural beauty of his home state. Later moving to North Carolina and then Ohio, Don advanced his professional career while continuing to create and exhibit his original mixed media art, pigment prints, and image transfers. Now, as he further develops his personal work, Don experiments with various mediums and tools to express his artistic vision.
Craig Screven is a 1989 graduate of Dunbar High School and a 1993 graduate of the Ohio State University where he majored in drawing and painting. While at the Ohio State University, he had the opportunity to take classes under nationally known African American Artist, Pheoris West. He had his art accepted in 2011 and 2013 Black Creativity National African American Art exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, Illinois.…
Her personal work is process based and often ephemeral. Nature is a source of reflection and contrast in her works. Suzanne holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she focused on interdisciplinary studies and has exhibited with various collections.
Director of Exhibitions & Artist Support Initiatives at Wave Pool: A contemporary art fulfillment center, Maria Seda-Reeder has been working with and on behalf of artists for almost 20 years.
As a curator, writer, and academic she taught at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design Architecture Art and Planning for over a decade; has covered the work of living artists for online and print publications alike; and independently organized exhibitions at museums and galleries across the country.
Mary Ann Sedivy
Artist Mary Ann Sedivy’s passion is painting the landscape in both the plein air fashion and through abstraction. Mary Ann has her degree in Fine Arts and Art Education from Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio.
Born and raised in Northeast Ohio, Mary Ann’s painting career has spanned 40 years during which she has exhibited in Ohio in numerous juried exhibitions and has had several solo shows.…
Christine Seeholzer
Artist and Art Educator
Hi! My name is Christine Seeholzer. I am a Christian portrait artist with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Bowling Green State University, and a Masters in Art Education from the University of Toledo. I enjoy weaving storylines into my artwork through symbolism and juxtaposed imagery to describe emotions and the process of unfolding as a soul. My Etsy shop features functional art created from my paintings that can be used for spiritual enrichment and prayer.
Grant Segall
writer of fiction, journalism, essays, and biography
Harvard grad. Spent 44 years on daily newspapers, mostly Cleveland Plain Dealer. Won three national journalism prizes and many statewide ones. Freelanced for Washington Post, Daily Beast, Time, Boston Globe, American Education, Children’s Television Workshop, Black Issues in Higher Education, Philadelphia Magazine, The Land, Freshwater Cleveland, SHAD (Shaker Area Development) Connection, Shaker Life, & other outlets. Published 12 shorts and flashes in college journals and other outlets. Honorable mention, Whiskey Island contest, Cleveland State. Wrote “John D. Rockefeller: Anointed With Oil” (Oxford, 2001), published in U.S., Korea, and China.
Anne Katrine Senstad
artist
Anne Katrine Senstad was raised in Singapore and Norway, today she lives and works between New York and Oslo, Norway. She received her art education at Parsons School of Design and The New School for Social Research in New York 1994 and 1999. Senstad’s practice lies in the multi disciplinary intersections of installation art, photography, video, neon sculpture, immersive installation, landart and site specificity, with a focus on the phenomena of perception and the cognitive system in response to the properties of light, sound and color. Senstad is concerned with sensorial aesthetics, perception and the transformative, – the transcendental ideas of art and philosophical practices. Through advanced in depth research she has examined spatial, topological and scientific phenomena of light, sound and color since the mid 1990’s, a foundation for her explorations in the experiential, participatory and experimental. In her ongoing field work, she engages in cultural, social and political interactions through active, organic and personal involvement for a wider educational and collaborative platform between diverse ideologies, developing a new folklore and amalgamation between post-modern individualism and internationalism. Senstad created the central public art work for The Wolfe Center for the Arts at BGSU in Bowling Green, OH that opened in 2010, and designed by Snohetta Architects.
Sydney Shahan
Artist
Artist in Northeast Ohio who loves to recreate portraits, specializes in water color and colored pencil media. Sydney works in non profit and is getting her masters in Social Work & Non profit administration. Sydney paints with youth in her spare time and loves to show how art can heal.
Sydney started doing art at a young age when she was inspired by her father who is also an artist and her great aunt Juanita who had a love for painting. …
Neera Sharma
Silk Artist
I was born and raised in New Delhi India, where my art journey began at a young age. Now I have been a visual artist for more than fifty years, and over the years I have painted in different mediums whichever I felt like working with. Initially I painted in watercolor, batik art, charcoal drawings, oil color, acrylic paints, fabric paints, and now I paint on silk fabric with silk color dyes, similar to watercolor but using water based resist, which prevents color dyes to bleed into other areas of the painting.…
Sandy Shelenberger
Artist and Workshop Instructor
Sandy is an artist and instructor. She specializes in fiber arts, surface design and encaustics.
Her work has been in several publications and juried art exhibitions. Her work has been included in prestigious exhibits such as Quilt National, Fiberarts International, Quilts=Art-Quilts, Visions Art Museum in San Diego, CA and Ohio Craft Museum. Sandy loves teaching and sharing her knowledge and passion for the creative process.
Kim Shelton studied painting and drawing at Wright State University, Dayton Ohio where she received her BFA in 1998. In 2004, she received a MSE in Art Education. After receiving her MSE, Kim taught in the Dayton area school system for over 10 years. Making art was always Kim’s passion so in 2019 she began working on a visual story about memories of friends and their experiences in life.…