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. For more information, contact Kathy Signorino, artist programs director, at kathy.signorino@oac.ohio.gov or 614-728-6140.
Deb Berkebile
Textile Artist and Instructor
Technology and nature inspire creator of Great Lakes quilt; Ohio woman turns satellite images, thermal photographs into art.
I am a naturalist and environmentalist at heart. My current body of work explores satellite imagery and creating ‘false-color’ artistic depictions of remote sensed satellite images (Geographical Information Systems). I have eight quilts in my “Earth in Three Bands: R, G, B” Series: The Painted Desert, Eye of Sahara, The Great Salt Desert, Susitna Glacier, The Grand Canyon, Galileo Inspiration, The Great Lakes and my latest Rocky Mountain Trench. The vivid colors and their outstanding variations are what first drew me to these representations. I also use other remote sensed imagery taken from our National Parks for my art. My first quilt in this series was inspired by a thermal image of an eruption of the Old Faithful geyser taken in Yellowstone National Park.
Keith Berr
Photographer
Keith Berr is an international advertising and fine arts photographer. A graduate of the Brooks Institute of Photography, he has developed a unique live/work compound in Cleveland’s Asia Town, where he holds frequent events, fundraisers and educational gatherings, helping people and organizations connect and share their strongest assets towards promoting the arts.
His clients include a broad range of major corporations, non-profit institutions, and small businesses. …
Sanjib Bhattacharya
Indian Dancer, Choreographer
Sanjib Bhattacharya, recipient of President’s Awards from Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam in 2006 and Smt. Pratibha Patil in 2011 is an accomplished Manipuri Dance Exponent, Guru and well-known Choreographer of India and abroad. He has received his training under the tutelage of Guru Bipin Singh, Padmashri Darshana Jhaveri, Kalavati Devi, Manjushree Chaki Sircar and Mamata Shankar. He is currently an established performer of great repute having extensively performed across India and abroad. He is not only performing as a solo artist, but is also performing with eminent Gurus and Icons of Indian Classical dances like Padmavibhushan Sonal Mansingh, Padmashri Darshana Jhaveri, Padmashri Ranjana Gauhar, and many other eminent gurus all over India and abroad. He runs several dance academies and institutions in India and Abroad while conducting Lecture Demonstrations and workshops regularly across the Globe. Currently Sanjib is living in Cleveland ,USA and Founder Director of Movements In motion ,teaching, performing, conducting workshop lecture demonstration, collaboration with the local Indian and multicultural community in US and CANADA, regularly creating a unique global choreographic presentation based on his Manipuri and Indian contemporary dance techniques as an Extraordinary Artist sponsored by Rainey Institute Cleveland.
Poet, musician, novelist.
Has organized poetry readings, open mic nights, started magazines (or helped with other peoples’ projects), was a founding member of a theater group that performed works they’d written themselves, helped behind the scenes as well as playing bit parts in 2 indy movies (a zombie in the crowd of attacking zombies, that sort of thing), organized home grown music festivals. Some of these things have been more successful than others. Along the way she’s been a member of Tinfoil, a Toledo area band that has released 14 albums, written hundreds of songs, one of which was used in an indy series called Certainty, and she’s released 2 books of poetry and three novels, the most recent of which was a finalist in the Faulkner competition.
To support these endeavors, she deals in used and rare books.
Mary Biddinger
Poet
Mary Biddinger’s latest poetry collection, Department of Elegy, will be published by Black Lawrence Press in early 2022. She has been the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. She teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Akron and NEOMFA program, and serves as poetry and poetics editor at the University of Akron Press.
Sebastian Birch
Associate Professor of Music
Sebastian Birch (DMA Cleveland Institute of Music) teaches theory and compositions at Kent State Stark. His compositions have been performed at numerous festivals, and conferences including the Bowling Green New Music Festival. Detectio Sonoris was recently performed by flautist Mary Kay Fink and pianist Nicholas Underhill.
Alice Blumenfeld
Artistic & Executive Director, Teaching Artist, Choreographer
Alice Blumenfeld is the founder and artistic director of ABREPASO flamenco. Recognitions include an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for Choreography (FY20), a YoungArts Silver winner, and a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts.
Alla Boara
Modern Italian Folk Music
Alla Boara seeks to bring recognition and new life to Italy’s diverse history of regional folk music. With modern arrangements variously surprising, playful, mournful, tender, and bewitching, Alla Boara’s dynamic songs move contemporary audiences of all ethnic heritages to treasure their musical roots and consider historical songs’ contemporary cultural relevance.
Vicki Boatright
Artist/Owner
Artist Vicki Boatright, known as “BZTAT” (pronounced bee-zee-tat), is the preeminent pet portrait artist for the Contemporary Pet Lover. Animal loving art collectors worldwide have commissioned artworks by BZTAT to celebrate their relationships with their beloved pets. Vicki also creates murals and other artworks that address a variety of themes.
Michele BonDurant is a painter/mixed media artist based in Dayton, Ohio receiving a BFA from Wright State University. BonDurant finds and frames the everyday in her observational landscapes and cut paper paintings. Her spare, calculated style reflects both contentment in the ordinary, and an interest in heightened drama through the use of pattern and shadow.…
Kelley Booze studied the Columbus College of Art and Design, graduating magna cum laude with a B.F.A. in Fine Art in 2009. In addition to exhibiting and maintaining a studio practice, she has taught various classes and workshops both independently and with several institutions. Her artwork has exhibited and is part of public and private collections nationally and internationally. Most recently, Kelley has been awarded the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence award for 2021, been published in a national arts publication, and has partnered with organizations on public art projects.
Adetokunbo Knowles Borishade, Ph.D. holds an earned doctorate degree in Africana Studies with a minor in cultural Anthropology. She is a semi-retired professor who creates vivid themes from her knowledge in African history and culture. This multi-talented educator’s work always contains strong spiritual elements, as expressed in her publications, lectures, poems, stage plays, and recent film script.…
Born in 1981 in Algeria, Ousama is originally from Aures. His Berber identity was the first source of inspiration for his works. During his contact with the artists of his city and with the students of Fine Arts School of Batna, Ousama started to find and build his personal artistic and his philosophy.
He was influenced by the Masters of the Art of the European renaissance such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Paul Rubens.…
Jim Bowling
Professor
Jim Bowling is a sculptor living and working in Columbus, Ohio. Focusing on contemporary expressions of the male form, he primarily works in clay but frequently incorporates found objects into his work. He received a BS from The Ohio State University where he also pursued post-baccalaureate studies in ceramics. He received an MFA in ceramics from Kent State University.
Terry Boyarsky
Chamber Music, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, Ethnomusicology, Arts Integration
Terry Boyarsky is a concert pianist, chamber musician, Dalcroze Eurhythmics teacher and ethnomusicologist. She trained with the Kennedy Center in Arts Integration and is a Teaching Artist for the Ohio Arts Council. She teaches Russian Vocal Music for CWRU. She sings with the Cleveland Orchestra Blossom Festival Chorus and Choral Arts Cleveland. Since 2007, Terry has been performing and teaching internationally as “Russian Duo” with Siberian balalaika virtuoso Oleg Kruglyakov.
Creating works of art has been a hobby and a focus of study for years. As a girl, I was fascinated with sketching portraits and animals. However, during my attendance in college,
I acquired a liking for painting and sculpting. Painting abstract and surrealist works of art in multi-mediums is my preference presently.…
Darden Bradshaw is Associate Professor of Art Education and Area Coordinator for Art Education at the University of Dayton. Holding both a Ph.D. in Art History and Education and an M.F.A. in Fiber Art from the University of Arizona, Tucson, Bradshaw works primarily with the historically rich and labor-intensive processes of wet and needle-felting, quilting, and weaving. She celebrates and draws attention to the often overlooked or unacknowledged.
Trish reaches out in her local community and shares her techniques of art with neighborhood kids,
family youths and assists in arts and crafts with those who show a keen interest in the arts.
Elizabeth Bram
artist
Elizabeth Bram creates her happy paintings the way a child paints freely and spontaneously. Her work is unique and original. She shows us a different vision from her own inner world in her paintings.
Davon Brantley
Artist
Davon Brantley an artist based in Cleveland Ohio, shapes his body of work reflecting on personal narratives and experiences. Using an amalgam of materials, he heightens meaning erratically in textured portraits that convey heightened emotional states. Childhood trauma and experiences through life, are a motif through his body of work. Thus allowing him to tackle multiple issues through development into adult life/maturity.