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.
Mac Love
Co-Founder & Chief Catalyst
Mac Love is the Co-Founder & Chief Catalyst at Art x Love, a creative agency based in Akron, Ohio. Love has more than 30 years of professional and interdisciplinary experience working as a painter, illustrator, digital artist, designer, cartographer, strategic consultant, and creative project manager. “I make art work,” says Love, who has dedicated his career to shifting cultural perspectives on the arts.
Courtney Love-Curry
Visual and Performance Artist
CasualBlerdist is the ironic moniker chosen by performer and visual artist Courtney D. Love-Curry. She has performed in multiple pieces throughout the Cleveland area. Inspired by gaming, anime, her people, and the simple humors of everyday life turned extra CasualBlerdist wants to turn the word “casual” on its head and aims to inspire other 9-5 owners to pursue their passions regardless of what society tells them.
Yanping Lu
Professional artist, Computer Graphic designer, and Art educator
Yanping Lu is a professional artist, graphic designer, and art educator.
I was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. I have lived in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, and now back in Ohio for now. I’m primarily a self-taught abstract artist.
I’m disabled due to failed back syndrome of the cervical spine. This caused nerve root damage, which impacts the use of my arms and hands.…
I am a photographer living in central Ohio. I enjoy telling a story with my images.
andrew Lundberg
Sculpture Artist
Andrew Lundberg, a native of Chautauqua Lake, New York, has called Columbus, Ohio, his home for the past 30 years. With a deep passion for art and design, he has carved out a remarkable career as a sculptor and muralist, leaving an indelible mark on the city’s public spaces.
Andrew’s artistic journey began at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, where he pursued a degree in Visual Communication.…
Jesse Ly is an Asian-American photographic and image-based artist. They hold a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts with a minor in Art History and a certificate in Critical Visions from the University of Cincinnati’s college of DAAP. They currently are the Graphic Design and Photography Media Facilities Coordinator for Art & Design at the University of Dayton.…
Julius Lyles
Artist
Julius Lyles lives and works in the Cleveland, Ohio area. He has a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Cleveland State University in the discipline of Photography & Sculpture. He is also a recipient of a master’s degree from the University of Akron in Arts Administration.
His work has been featured at several galleries all through out Ohio and has exhibited in solo shows and group exhibitions in Pennsylvania, Portland, Washington D.C., Atlanta, New York and Chicago.…
Paul Lyon
Artist
Every child is an artist… the problem is staying an artist when you grow up. – Pablo Picasso
My love for art started when I was a child. Six homemakers, including my mother, visited my elementary school after they had received training on six different artists at the Toledo Museum of Art.…
* LyricalGenes
Songwriter, Artist, Producer
Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, LyricalGenes is an award winning artist and songwriter, producer, and actor.
About Me When people ask me what I do for a living, I tell them I am an artist. It’s what makes me get out of bed in the morning, it’s in my blood. I paint something every day that makes me happy and usually it makes others happy. From old to new, on wood or canvas, I paint, and I draw, and I will often bring out my camera.…
As a child I don’t know that I was driven to be artistic, but I do remember as a six year old in the 1970s, I would watch the TV show “Bewitched” The star of the show Samantha was married to Darren. Darren had a job as an Advertiser. He would create artistic renditions that he would try to sell to his clients. I vividly remember saying to myself. I would like to have a job like that.
Noel Maghathe
Artist / Curator
Noel Maghathe is a queer, mixed Palestinian-American performance installation artist. Maghathe creates and performs with queer functional tools to navigate the world. Their practice focuses on their Palestinian heritage and the occupation of Palestine, their love and pride for their country, and sharing the pain of occupation and their longing for their country to educate their audience. Connecting with other Palestinian artists in the diaspora is vital to the work Maghathe creates.
Anita Maharjan
Artist/entrepreneur
Anita Maharjan is a local Columbus-based artist, originally from Nepal. She came to the
United States in 2008 to pursue higher education in art. She is proud to be the first
woman in her family to hold a college degree. Anita earned her Bachelor’s degree in
Fine Arts from the University of North Texas, and holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts
with a teaching certificate from the Columbus College of Art and Design. Anita has
taught at Columbus College of Art and Design as an adjunct professor, and
taught art at Fugees Academy, a school for refugees.
Anita has exhibited her work in many cities in Texas and Ohio, including the Columbus
Museum of Art. She received the 2017 Creative Women’s Award at The Ohio Art Fair,
and has been featured in Dallas Morning News, Columbus Underground, Columbus Alive, Broad and High
and Columbus Dispatch. She has received several Best of Show awards, and has
presented solo shows in Dallas and Columbus.
Cat Mailloux is an artist and educator based in Columbus, OH. She earned an MFA in Sculpture in 2018 from The Ohio State University and a BFA in Sculpture and Certification in Art Education from the University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire in 2014. Currently, she serves as an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio. Her creative work is based in textiles, which she views as a practice of layered and labored drawing. Shaped by geometric abstraction, traditional quilt making, and the logic of stained glass, their shifting patterns infer large and seemingly infinite expanses of space-—bodies of water meeting the horizon, trees on a mountain fading into the distance, and the color of the sky at midnight.
Erin Main
Adjunct Professor
As an artist, focused on the study of the digital arts, I strive to create using innovative and hybrid methods of animation. My work is typically animated and centers around themes of love and hardship. While primarily an animator, I also branch out into multiple disciplines in order to create mixed media pieces.…
Juniper Mainelis is a Visionary painter, Grammy nominated singer-songwriter, and poet. She often writes songs and poetry to accompany her paintings, giving the viewer a deeper dive into her gnosis. Some refer to her work as medicine painting, as each piece is infused with her healing thoughts and intentions. Using a technique called Intentional Creativity, in which she is also a certified teacher, Juniper creates layered landscapes of her imaginary visions.…
Norman Mallard
Collage/Assemblage Artist
Norman is a mixed-media artist living & working in Akron, Ohio. He was raised in the mid-1900s in Norfolk, Virginia, and has spent his working career as an Art Director and Graphic Designer. Now (mostly) retired, he is concentrating on his lifelong love of collage. He works from his basement studio, where his hoarding can be contained.
Hannah Maltry is a watercolor artist based in Westerville, Ohio. Her vaguely spooky art style, influenced by mid-century fine art and illustrations, features intensely minimal, geometric shapes and clean lines that uniquely interpret the world around her.
I have drawn for as long as I can remember, taught for over thirty years, and sketching just to sketch is what I like to do and share most of all. I’ve come to believe that anyone can sketch! Keeping it simple, and small, has proven to be a great way to engage with the pleasure of sketching.