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
Cedric Michael Cox, a renowned Cincinnati-based painter and muralist, is best known for his paintings and drawings that merge surrealism and representational abstraction. As a student at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP), Cox was awarded a fellowship to study at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland.…
Lynn Cox was born in a small village in East-central Ohio Appalachian coal country. He began the serious study of Art at Kent State University with Arthur Limbach Jr. He completed his undergraduate work at The Ohio State University where he earned a BFA. He studied painting with Robert King, Robert Mosokowitz, and John Torreano among others.
He continued his studies and development, earning an MFA in painting from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he studied with John Grillo, James Hendricks, George Wardlaw, and Walter Kamys.
Visual artist, traditionally trained, fluent in multiple mediums and techniques. Work incorporates a combination of drawing, painting, printmaking, sewing, collage, and assemblage. Plants, trees, birds, and figures are common themes. Experienced showing and selling in gallery and festival settings.
BA, Fine Arts, Columbus College of Art and Design
Thomas Craley
TC Acrylics- Mixed Media Artist
Meet Thomas Craley, a passionate self-taught acrylic artist who infuses vibrant colors and dynamic movement into his creations.While Thomas has always been artistic, his true passion for art blossomed during the pandemic. In April 2022, he eagerly founded TC Acrylics LLC.
Thomas has proudly exhibited his work in Toledo, Lima, and Columbus at various art and vendor events as well as several exhibitions alongside some of his town greatest talents.…
Cheryl Craver
Artist
I attended the University of Cincinnati and graduated with a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts in Art Education. While studying Fine Arts, I majored in fiber arts and minored in photography. In the late 80’s and 90’s my weavings were featured at a furniture store in the Cincinnati area. After moving back to the Cleveland area to attend Kent State University, I received a Master in Education and began working in jewelry design, including stone setting.…
Nancy Crawford
Artist/Owner
Nancy Crawford is an artist whose life has always included art. Nancy has experience in many styles of art, and dabbles in different mediums. Presently, her work includes watercolor, ink and mixed media including digital influences, but she also has started making public artworks, murals, mosaics and stained-glass installations.
Nancy got her start at the University of Cincinnati in the world-renowned graphic design program. UC and her other college experiences and teaching in the public-school systems have influenced the paintings and sculptures that she creates.
Nancy works in her studio at The Art Rookery, 340 Jefferson Street, Greenfield, Ohio. She owns and manages the gallery shop.
Alan Crockett has been awarded 6 Ohio Arts Council Fellowships, 3 Greater Columbus Arts Council Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts,a Ford Foundation grant, and residency fellowships at the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, New York City and Dresden Germany.
His work has been widely exhibited in galleries, universities and museums throughout the US and internationally in Italy, German, Holland, Canada, and India and is in several public collections.
Clara Crockett
Artist
Clara Crockett, performance and visual artist, has been awarded six Individual Artist Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, two from the Greater Columbus Arts Council, an NEA, Regional Artist Grant and residency fellowships at Vermont Studio Center and Yellow Springs Institute.
Her work has been shown throughout the Midwest and is currently included in the “Viewing Program and Permanent Slide Registry” at the Drawing Center in New York City.
The studio works are inspired by an underlying interest in handwriting architectures, language, poetics, and urban debris. His prints, drawings, and mixed media artworks have been exhibited nationally, internationally and are held in museums, corporate and private collections
Jim Crotty
Photographer
“Through the prints that I publish, showcase and sell; and from the workshops and instruction I provide, I want to illustrate the deeper meaning of photography as an art and as a purpose.”
Lee Crouse
Associate Producer
Lee is the Associate Producer for the Scioto Society, Inc, producers of the outdoor drama Tecumseh!. Directing credits include Frankenstein, Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf; Silent Sky; Schoolhouse Rock Live; Taming of the Shrew; Almost, Maine; Wait Until Dark; Twelfth Night; Lysistrata; The Good Doctor; Night of the Living Dead, and God of Carnage.
Katherine Crowley was born 1976 in Columbus, Ohio. She graduated from Miami University with a BFA and works professionally in the graphic design field. Ms. Crowley is a painter and bronze sculptor whose work has been exhibited around the world and is held in many private collections.
There’s nothing quite like the smell of pine in the air as I walk down a path and feel the crunch of pine needles and fall leaves under my feet. I enjoy the adrenaline rush I feel as I see quick movements in the vegetation around me that puts my senses immediately on alert. Give me the outdoors and give me birds…lots of birds to photograph!…
Since graduating from BGSU in 2000, Cullen has received a MA-Studio from Eastern Michigan University in 2011 and a MFA from Ohio University in 2015. She has participated in several group exhibitions regionally, nationally, and internationally. I am currently the Executive Director for Majestic Galleries in Nelsonville, Ohio.
Bea Currie
Mixed Media Artist
Bea Currie is a writer and visual artist who has been creating art since she was a small child. An imaginary time traveler of the threads that wind and connect us, she is a language painter of poems and a mixed-media creator of poetic and story filled images. Her paintings, collage and assemblage art invite the viewer into the space between the marvelous and the real.