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
David Griggs is a Denver-based artist who has completed over 60 commissioned works of art throughout the United States. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder with a Masters Degree in Fine Arts. He has worked in many capacities in the arts, including gallery manager, museum preparator, and studio artist. For the last 30 years he has been self-employed as a Public Artist, designing and building work for Percent For Art, Public Art, and Private commissions. Recent commissions include projects for Anchorage, Boulder, Chicago, Dallas, Jacksonville, Las Vegas, Madison, San Antonio, Santa Fe, Stockton, Toronto, and Washington. Increasingly he has become involved in projects that require not only designing and building Public Art, but also Public Art planning, strategizing and advocacy. Griggs lives and works in a 140-year-old building in Denver’s burgeoning Santa Fe Arts District.
J. Kenneth Grody considers painting to be his real passion, and strives to make his work come to life.
Ken is a graduate of Wright State University earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a focus in painting and art history. In addition to studying with several of today’s exceptional painters and portrait artists, he also feels very fortunate to have had the opportunity to study abroad in England, France, and Italy. While there he studied and viewed many of the great works by the old masters, which he believes has a profound impact upon his art.
His art has been displayed in numerous exhibitions and can be found in private and corporate collections on several continents.
Donald LC Groves is a professional opera and musical theater singer formerly based in New York City and now living in Ohio. He has been lucky enough to travel the country performing and taking pictures.
Dana Grubbe
Visual Artist
Dana Grubbe is a central Ohio artist known for her contemporary abstracts. She works in oil and cold wax, in repurposed house paint and in encaustic. Her work, which vibrates with color, texture, and metal leaf, can be found in the Museum of Encaustic Art in Santa Fe. She is represented by Hayley Gallery in New Albany. Dana has a studio and teaches art workshops at 400 West Rich.
Jessica Guerrero
Mixed Media, Abstract Artist
Colorful Dreamz with Jessica G.
I am Jessica, a self taught, mixed media artist from Bristolville, Ohio. Fluid Art is a huge passion of mine, has been since 2020. From alcohol inks & epoxy resin all the way to acrylic paint mixed with glue & water, I love it!…
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.…