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.
Mille Guldbeck
Professor of Art
Mille Guldbeck is an interdisciplinary artist who grew up between the US and Denmark and currently resides in Ohio. She earned an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and holds bachelor’s degrees from Columbia College in Chicago, Aarhus Universitet and The Jydske Kunstakademi in Denmark. An avid amateur naturalist and trained as an anthropologist prior to working in the arts, she utilizes a wide variety of materials and experimentation in her work.…
Barry Gunderson lives in Gambier, Ohio, where he has taught sculpture at Kenyon College since 1974. He retired from teaching in 2015 but has not retired from his studio work. Interpretations of water, contorted figures with peculiar thought bubbles, sculptural architecture based on Northern English row houses, French Gardens, and just “Useless Metal Objects” have kept him busy in the studio.…
Felicity Gunn
Artist
Felicity maintains a regular art practice rooted in illustration and printmaking and has a deep love for community collaboration.
Kari Gunter-Seymour’s award winning photography has been published nationally in The Sun Magazine, Light Journal, Looking at Appalachia, Storm Cellar Quarterly, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Vine Leaves Journal and Appalachian Review. She is a 9th generation Appalachian. Her work is firmly and unapologetically attached to her home soil, and is an examination of the long-lasting effects of stereotype and false narratives surrounding Appalachians.
Tina Gutierrez
photographer
Tina has taught at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and has been guest lecturer at the Taft Museum, University of Cincinnati DAAP, CCM and at Xavier University. Tina’s work has been widely exhibited, at FotoFocus 2022,2020,2018 and 2016 at many venues including not only for Fotofocus – The Kennedy Heights Arts Center, The Mansfield Arts Center, The Cincinnati YWCA, Washington Park Art Gallery, The Art Academy, Xavier University Northern Kentucky University, Havana, Cuba, Mexico City, and other spaces.…
Matt Gwinn
Owner
Born in 1983 in St. Albans, WV, I was introduced to music at the age of 5 with a Christmas gift of my first guitar. Growing up I became interested in various styles of the instrument, but by the time I reached High School I decided that blues guitar was it. Unfortunately, no one else was into the blues as my peers were much more into heavy metal or punk rock.…
Jennifer Ditlevson Haglund is a writer with a diverse background, having worked in news, education, and marketing.
Ditlevson Haglund was born in Oklahoma, lived in Nebraska, and eventually grew up in Northeastern Ohio. She earned a BA in English and Journalism at Ashland University, and an MA in English at Baylor University. Her work has been published in Refinery 29, Christianity Today, Christ and Pop Culture, and local newspapers.
My name is Sean Hahn. I am originally from south west Ohio. I’m an artist that primarily works with acrylic and fiber.
I work in oil for its complexity, boldness and richness. I find with the vast array of solvents I am able to mold the oil paint into creations of movement with a conjunction of abstraction. The movement in each piece enables me to create some paintings that are soft and light, and others that are bold and dynamic. Often times my pieces are derived from nature or natural events that are meant to evoke thought and emotion through the movement and color in each piece.
BFA, Youngstown State University, Painting /Drawing
MFA, Ohio State University, Sculpture /Drawing
James is a professional engineer and artist, living and working in the Columbus area. Painting is his passion.
Joe’s upbringing by a compulsive, eclectic, stay at home mother and obsessive blue-collar father has instilled creativity and attention to details in his work ethic. Influenced by his mother’s vast art text library, professional artist friends, and National Geographic Magazines strewn about the childhood home, Joe has developed a fascination with the diversity of the human form and condition.
Julia Hamilton earned her Master of Fine Arts at Columbus College of Art and Design in 2019. Hamilton enjoys creating intricate line drawings and mixed media paintings in her hometown of Columbus, Ohio. She has loved creating art since childhood. Her artwork has been referred to as “graceful-yet-intense.”
Quinn Hanna
Ohio University BFA Student
Quinn Hanna is currently working on her undergrad at Ohio University studying ceramics inclusive of crafting pottery and ceramic sculpture. Starting ceramics at the age of 12, Quinn was featured in the Columbus Dispatch at age 16 followed by her acceptance into the School of Fine Arts at OU. She was awarded the 2022 Ohio Emerging Artist Award by the Ohio Designer Craftsmen. Quinn’s work currently explores the figurative area of sculptor utilizing matte surface development while often incorporating mixed media. The subjects of her pieces often reflect the subjects in her life and surroundings incorporating inspiration from natural forms.
Upon graduation, Quinn plans to pursue grad school to obtain a Masters in Fine Arts in hopes of teaching ceramics at the collegiate level.
Susan Hanna
Field of Poppies
Susan Hanna paints portraits of men and women in the news. Using her cell phone as a prop, she brings to life the complex personalities of politicians and pundits. Painting a glimmer of a smile or an intense keen searching gaze, Susan shows the characteristics of an individual and the experiences that go into the makeup of a significant life.…
Cassandra Harner is already familiar with thinking of herself in the third person, performing as alter-egos in music, drag, and comedy. She is a draglesque performer named Dusty Bucket, and a self-absorbed piece of art-work, Kay-T Critiques. She’s most recently been awarded Master of Amazement for Ohio Burlypicks 2020. She is a video artist and editor. She’s an illustrator and instructor of comics and pastel portraits. She has led classes in drag, camming, video art, and drawing. She’s an oversharer and radically vulnerable. She’s queer and kind of swears a lot.
In the pastiche of Cassandra’s artistic practice, there are two main pillars holding it aloft: camp and fashion. If her audience isn’t laughing or at least bewildered, she is not fulfilled. Art isn’t limited to being gravely nodded at, in quiet contemplation from a safe distance. (Although nowadays, everything should be a safe 6 feet away) Being “serious” isn’t the only way to make thoughtful and legitimate work, even when it’s about queer identity, pop culture, art theory, or capitalism. She may have more to reveal than just a wig underneath another wig underneath another wig.
Or maybe, she just loves a gimmick.
Jen P. Harris (b. 1977, she/they) is an artist, designer, and organizer based in Cleveland following significant stints in Los Angeles, New York, and Iowa City. Her work across media asks: how can art help us sense our entanglement, with each other and with a world that is never still and is always surprising?…
Mark Yale Harris realized his true passion – stone carving – in the 1990s. Having moved to Santa Fe, he was mentored by sculptors Bill Prokopiof (Aleut) and Doug Hyde (Nez Perce). Over the past twenty years, Harris has unrelentingly challenged and reveled in his creative side. Harris’ works in alabaster, marble, limestone and bronze express his perspective on the inherent duality in mans’ essence.…