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
Sydney Shahan
Artist
Artist in Northeast Ohio who loves to recreate portraits, specializes in water color and colored pencil media. Sydney works in non profit and is getting her masters in Social Work & Non profit administration. Sydney paints with youth in her spare time and loves to show how art can heal.
Sydney started doing art at a young age when she was inspired by her father who is also an artist and her great aunt Juanita who had a love for painting. …
Neera Sharma
Silk Artist
I was born and raised in New Delhi India, where my art journey began at a young age. Now I have been a visual artist for more than fifty years, and over the years I have painted in different mediums whichever I felt like working with. Initially I painted in watercolor, batik art, charcoal drawings, oil color, acrylic paints, fabric paints, and now I paint on silk fabric with silk color dyes, similar to watercolor but using water based resist, which prevents color dyes to bleed into other areas of the painting.…
Kasey Renee Shaw is a writer, essayist, and reproductive rights advocate living in her home state of Ohio. Her essays have been nominated for numerous awards, including the Pushcart Prize, AWP Intro Awards, and the Best of Net. In 2022, she earned her MFA in creative nonfiction from West Virginia University.
Kasey’s current project is a collection of essays that blend humor and personal narrative storytelling with investigations of Midwestern American culture, liminal spaces, folklore and urban legends.…
Sandy Shelenberger
Artist and Workshop Instructor
Sandy is an artist and instructor. She specializes in fiber arts, surface design and encaustics.
Her work has been in several publications and juried art exhibitions. Her work has been included in prestigious exhibits such as Quilt National, Fiberarts International, Quilts=Art-Quilts, Visions Art Museum in San Diego, CA and Ohio Craft Museum. Sandy loves teaching and sharing her knowledge and passion for the creative process.
Kim Shelton studied painting and drawing at Wright State University, Dayton Ohio where she received her BFA in 1998. In 2004, she received a MSE in Art Education. After receiving her MSE, Kim taught in the Dayton area school system for over 10 years. Making art was always Kim’s passion so in 2019 she began working on a visual story about memories of friends and their experiences in life.…
Yani Sheng (b.1982)
Born in Taiwan, raised in Belize, and educated in Canada, transplant Yani Sheng has recently taken roots in Columbus, Ohio. She received her B.F.A. in Visual Art and her Bachelor of Education from Memorial University. Having exhibited in several galleries abroad, including Image Factory Gallery, JL Gallery, and SWGC Gallery, Yani has now found herself immersed in the Columbus local art scene.…
Born in Lancaster, Linda Shepard studied fine art and design at Charleston Southern University and Trident Technical College in Charleston, South Carolina. Her formal art training focused heavily on working from life.
Her career straddles the line between fine art and commercial design, including stints as an Art Director and a Creative Director for a Fortune 100 Company. Linda believes advertising, communications, and fine art share a common skill set.
Dale Shields
Professor
Dale Ricardo Shields is a 2017 winner of The Kennedy Center/Stephen Sondheim Inspirational Teacher Award®, 2017 and 2015Tony® award nominee for the Excellence in Theatre Education Award, the 2017 AUDELCO/”VIV” Special Achievement Award, 2020, 2021, and 2022 ENCORE AWARD / The Actors Fund.…
Leslie Shiels (1950) Ohio, full-time painter, graduated University of Cincinnati (DAAP)with a BFA
1974. Exhibited in USA, Bermuda & France. Represented in numerous corporate and private
collections including commissions for Cincinnati Childrens Hospital and The Mercy Hospital
Group. Represented in the collections of The Masur Museum of Art, LA; the Alexandria Museum
of Art, LA; The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, WI; The Customs House Museum, TN;
Masterworks Museum, Bermuda; Canton Museum of Art, OH; Huntington Museum of Art, WV;
Zanesville Museum of Art, OH; & Richmond Art Museum, IN. Featured in various publications
including the Artist Magazine and on set of ABC’s Nashville for seasons 1- 4. On advisory
boards of The Art Academy of Cincinnati & Weston Art Gallery at the Aronoff Center as a
regional artist liaison. Awarded numerous residencies including at the Weir Trust, CT; Anderson
Ranch, CO; and South Hampton, Bermuda; Maintains a studio in the West End, Cincinnati, OH
Faye Sholiton
Playwright, Screenwriter and Founding Artistic Director
Faye Sholiton is a Cleveland playwright whose work over the past 25 years has been produced around the U.S. and honored with five OAC Individual Excellence Awards. A longtime advocate for the arts, she served seven years as Ohio’s Regional Representative to the Dramatists Guild. In 2011, she founded Interplay Jewish Theatre, to revive a beloved cultural tradition in Cleveland and feature work by playwrights from around the world.
Following high school and a 5 year Navy tour Ed attended Ohio University in 1977 where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography in 1980, advised by photography professor Arnold Gassan.
His current photographic methodology comprises medium format image film capture, high quality digital scanning and intermediate processes utilizing the latest ink jet technology.
After a 40+ year career in television production and engineering, Mr. Shrider now resides semi-retired in Lancaster, Ohio.
Nancy Shuler
Artist
Nancy Beth Shuler has been a native of Ohio since 1972. She is a full-time working artist since graduating with her BFA in 2018. She has exhibited in Dayton, Ohio, at The Dayton Art Institute and Front Street Galleries; and in Troy, Ohio, at Arbogast Performing Arts Center and Hayner Cultural Center. She paints landscapes, abstracts, and figurative work. Her mission is to live the artistic life making visual art.
Adrian Sibley
Adrian Sibley Profile
I paint to put the viewer of my work in a different frame of consciousness. My ultimate goal is to open your subconscious. If my abstract forms can make you feel slightly uneasy my “magic” is doing it’s job. When I name my pieces several ideas come to mind. Most of it is music, all of it is color, quite a bit is pain/illness and a portion is hurt.…
Art was just a dream. I am a self educated artist learning through observing others, reading, and research. I was denied art while growing up and had to take a bite out of life to draw when I could. . It wasn’t until last year when health took a determined part in my life that I threw all the doubts away and after recovering from reconstructive surgery of my dominant hand in February 2024 and serious back issues that I found the determination to become “that” artist. Realism is what I see and work to create with a “touch” of how I see it. I draw and paint as it is the essence of my being. Art gives my life meaning and helps me see the beauty in this world. And makes me smile. I take pictures and I take my sketchbook wherever I go. Anything can inspire me.
I look for views that often escape other’s eyes to capture the wonder in mini landscapes, full landscapes and botanical. During my art league receptions I watch the visitors who show delight in my work. My medium is watercolor, colored pencil and pastel, graphite and mixed media
Ann Corley Silverman pursued the study of hand papermaking in New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Southeast Asia, and the University of Iowa. Her artwork has been displayed in juried, solo, and invitational shows in New York, Chicago, Ohio, and North Carolina, among other national venues. She currently works from studios both in Columbus, Ohio and in Pittsboro, North Carolina.
Scott Simler
Artist
Scott creates paintings that have been coined “Masters Mash Ups”. For a “Master’s Mash Up”, Scott combines elements inspired by artworks created by master artists, and then he adds his own creativity, resulting in a unique and original artwork. Colorful, playful and entertaining, his paintings reveal a magical mashed up world that bursts onto the surface with unique fervor. Sometimes Scott’s “Master’s Mash Ups” pay clever homage to the artworks that brought him inspiration, and sometimes you can barely see any tangential references. Regardless of his approach, however, the unique character of his own creativity emerges and makes the artwork clearly his own.
Annette Simon earned a BFA in Graphic Design from Ohio University and
worked as a freelance designer and fine artist from Studio 7.5 until joining Studios on High Gallery
in Columbus, OH in 2018. Her work has won several awards as well as
being juried into many exhibits including the Columbus Ohio Museum of
Art – Saying Goodbye to the Russel Page Garden, Springfield Museum of
Art – Plein Air and the Ohio State Fair.…
AJ Skelly
Author; CEO
AJ Skelly is an author, reader, and lover of all things fantasy, medieval, and fairy-tale-romance. And werewolves. She has a serious soft spot for them. As an avid life-long reader and a former high school English teacher, she’s always been fascinated with the written word. She lives with her husband, children, and many imaginary friends who often find their way into her stories.…
Mary Skrenta
Materialsmith
Mary Skrenta is a multi-media artist and craftsperson. She holds three degrees in art, and creates and teaches in the Columbus community.
She uses a combination of experimental and traditional media to create work that provokes thought, reflects on human metaphysical evolution, and questions notions of value. She is influenced by nature, philosophy, and ageism in contemporary society.
She is equally passionate about teaching, making, and living mindfully. She believes each practice informs the other, and that sharing the gift of creativity is a vocation, not a job.
Cory Skurdal
Playwright
My plays, including Abundant Life, Catspaw, Sticks & Stones, The Body Politic, and Adeste Fideles have been produced/developed by Original Productions Theatre (OPT), Evolution Theatre Company, CATCO, The Tipping Point Theatre Company, Curtain Players, MadLab, and the Jewel Box Theatre. I received the CATCO/Greater Columbus Arts Council Playwriting Fellowship and the Jewel Box Theatre Playwriting Award. I am a member of The Dramatists Guild and the Central Ohio Theatre Roundtable.