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.
Dana Saulnier, is a painter and Professor Emeritus at Miami University. He has degrees from the University of Cincinnati (BFA) and Cornell University (MFA). Awards include the Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grant. Reviews include Art Papers, the Wall Street Journal, and Hyperallergic. His work is in public, private, and corporate collections. Dana Saulnier is affiliated with First Street Gallery, New York, and Cynthia Byrnes Contemporary Art, Westport, CT.
I am a mixed media artist and primarily use art as a self-care tool to process and manage my feelings related to anxiety and depression. I primarily create abstract expressionist pieces and often create assemblage art. I take classes at the Cultural Arts Center and use my time in the studio for independent study.
Alyssa Savoca
Mix Medium Artist
Hi! My name is Alyssa and I am a 26 year old self made artist from Cleveland,Ohio. I use a variety of art forms, but my favorite and most common is acrylic paint on canvas with dried flowers. I love to travel the world and often get inspiration from my experiences. I’ve always loved art, but after the pandemic of 2020 I decided to make it my goal to become an abstract artist.…
Erin Scaia
Owner/Art Instructor
Erin Scaia is the owner of Purple Dog Art Studio. She loves to paint abstracts in acrylics, and landscapes, humans and animals in pastels.
Keith Scanlon
Scanlon Art
Keith Scanlon was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio.
He attended the University of Dayton and graduated in 2011, with a major in Art Education and concentration in painting. He then went on to obtain his Masters of Art in Art Education from The Ohio State University.
I was born in Maierato, province of Vio Valentia in the Southern Italian Region of Calabria. I developed a passion for the Arts at very young age. I was inspired by my mother, a very well known seamstress, and by the age of ten I had learned to sew, do needlework embroidery (ricamo) and crochet.…
Francis Schanberger received his Master of Fine Arts from the Ohio State University in 2002. He has been an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts (2005), Emmanuel College in Boston, Massachusetts (2011) and Vermont Studio Center in 2013. He has exhibited at Soho Photo in New York, the Houston Center for Photography, the Free University of Brussels, as well as COHJU Gallery in Kyoto, Japan.
Francis Schanberger has been photographing since fourth grade when he presented a homemade, long focal length pinhole camera as his science project. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the Ohio State University in 2002. He has been an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts (2005), Emmanuel College in Boston, Massachusetts (2011) and Vermont Studio Center in 2013. He has exhibited at Soho Photo in New York, the Houston Center for Photography, the Free University of Brussels, as well as COHJU Gallery in Kyoto, Japan.
My name is Malissa Schisler. I was born in Columbus, Ohio. My artwork was included in the Elemental Realms Exhibition ( February 7-27 2014) at Agora Gallery 530 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001
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.…
Jake Schneider
Professional Photographer
Jake Schneider, born in 1999 in Greenville, Ohio, is a dedicated photographer inspired by the classic photojournalism of Life magazine. He primarily shoots 35mm black and white film with a Leica M3. Jake’s work, influenced by iconic photographers like Mary Ellen Mark and Robert Frank, has been showcased in solo exhibitions at the Greenville and Coldwater libraries.
Samantha Schneider
Artist
Samantha Schneider is an accomplished oil painter currently residing in OH. Graduating in 2021 from the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) with a double major in painting and drawing. Schneider carved her artistic niche with massive figurative works. A strong focus on cinema and the idea of “playing a role” she creates self portraits that take on their own lives as different characters.…
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. …
My work presents complexity of the human condition in relation to the process of being and becoming balancing a dialogical interplay of space and place through the emotional and physical concordance of glass in its beauty and fragility.
Jeshua Schuster is an interdisciplinary artist working in drawing, painting and sculpture. He received his MFA from DAAP at the University of Cincinnati. He teaches at UC and Northern Kentucky University and has led public art projects with Artworks, as well as the Young Artists at Work program with the Toledo Arts Commission.
Elan Schwartz (he/they) is a current MFA Candidate at Cranbrook Academy of Art and holds a BFA with a certificate in Pre-Art Therapy from University of Cincinnati. They’ve exhibited at galleries including The Contemporary Arts Center, Dream Clinic Project Space, BasketShop Gallery, SCAD. Elan received an Artist Opportunities grant from the OAC, was Illuminate Artist Fellow, and has attended residencies at The Peter Bullough Foundation and Contemporary Arts Center.
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).
Colleen Scott
Artist
Hey, I’m Colleen! I was born in Dayton, Ohio, in the summer of ’84—the baby of the family, with an older sister in PA and a brother still back in Dayton. I spent my whole life Irish dancing and even made it to the World Championships in Killarney, Ireland (which was insane).
In 2004, I moved to Columbus to go to CCAD and graduated in 2009 with my BFA.…