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
After years of pursuing a variety of art, I’ve landed home, photographing views from my backyard: Lake Erie scenes. I combine images, rearrange them, turn them upside down, flip-flop them, stack them and have them printed on large metal panels up tp 4’x5′. From afar, they’re abstract patterns of light and color, totems, Rorschach tests. From close up, you can discover faces, robots, body parts, insects…all up to your imagination!
p Policy
CEO/Producer/DJ/Multi-Instrumentalist/Engineer
Policy is an accomplished drummer/percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, studio session player, actor, recording engineer, producer, DJ and music business consultant. Mark has studied drums with Gregg Bissonette (David Lee Roth, Ringo Starr), Anton Fig (The David Letterman Show), Dave Weckl (Chick Corea) and attended the Los Angeles Community College Arts program. Following in his family’s footsteps, Mark has recorded and toured all over the U.S.…
Mabi Ponce de León (Ph.D., History of Art, The Ohio State University; M.F.A., Studio Arts, Stony Brook University) is an independent scholar and artist born in Argentina. Research plays an important part in her artwork. Guided by a personal history of displacement, Ponce de León’s studio practice incorporates works with a variety of analog and digital media and is strongly influenced by cultural iconography, maps, location, and origins.
Kel Porter (b. 1979 Cleveland, Ohio Kelly R. Porter / Kelly Porter-Santamaria) is a visual artist and educator
Sullivan Potter
Appalachian Folk Artist
A rural Appalachian with a southeastern Ohioan upbringing, Sullivan Potter is an artist dedicating his drawing, paintings, and photography work as ‘love letters’ to the Appalachian culture, legacy, & environment. He is a student at Ohio University, obtaining a Master’s in Art Education, with aspirations to work closely with rural Appalachian youth of Ohio, West Virginia, & Kentucky.
I was an artistic kid. Then life took over, and I put down my brush for motherhood and a corporate career. Now that I’m retired, I’ve returned to my early passion. I work primarily in acrylics and love color, texture, and faces. I gravitate toward bold, vibrant, and unexpected colors. Green skin? Why not? Pink horses?…
Jolene Powell
McCoy Professor of Art, Director of Gallery 310
Jolene Powell is a McCoy Professor of Art, and Director of Gallery 310 at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio. She is an established artist with an extensive exhibition record and is currently represented by Brandt Gallery in Columbus, Ohio. In 2021, Jolene received Marietta College’s Innovative Teaching Award, in 2018, the Edward G. Harness Outstanding Educator Award, and in 2007 the school’s highest honor, the McCoy Teaching Excellence Professorship. …
Stasha Powell
Poet
Stasha Strange is a disabled writer who was raised by wild books. She recently moved to Ohio
from the San Francisco bay area. She has been published in Poetic Reveries Magazine, Ohio
Bards, an Anthology, and Blossom, an Anthology. She has won awards in several poetry
contests. She led the charge on a bill in California that brought a statewide rent cap thus helping
17 million tenants stay in their homes.…
Tim Prentice
president
With a background in architecture, Prentice has been involved with public art as a kinetic sculptor for over forty years both in this country and abroad. Since 2012 he has been in partnership with his long time associate David Colbert as Prentice Colbert, Inc. Their work has been installed in many civic, educational and healthcare institutions as well as in transportation hubs and corporate settings.
Diane is a painter from the Cleveland/Akron area. She uses her surroundings as an inspiration for her work. With this, she is constantly seeking something within her that expresses what she is thinking and feeling as well as the interpretation of the world around her.
Originally possessing a degree in design from Kent State University, I have come back to making art as a means of therapy through the traumas of widowhood and working in healthcare. My art subjects such as birth and death; women’s historical role as household domestic; rites of passage; societal issues; sexual and domestic abuse; home, place and belonging; the loss of a child; and mental illness.
Hello, my name is Shania and I go by shy. Which is where my username @shymadeit_ comes from on instagram. I’m a 20 year old single mother . I’ve been drawing for 6 years. I’m from Columbus Ohio.
I am inspired by the places I travel to, the people I meet, and my love of the outdoors.
It’s important to me to create affordable artwork that’s accessible to anyone who wants an original painting in their home.
Sharone Putter
Contemporary Artist
Biography
Sharone Putter resides in Columbus, OH, USA, where she tours the city by bike, scouting for the workscapes that inspire her art. Her artwork is represented in Ohio by Sarah Gormley Gallery, Columbus, OH, and Hayley Gallery, New Albany, OH.
She earned a BFA, First in Class, in printmaking and glass sculpture from Alfred University, NY, USA, and a BS in Philosophy and Art History from Hebrew University, Jerusalem.…