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
Tracy McCarty
Artist
Hello!
I paint the energy of nature, most often of water. Water offers us free energy through the release of ions into the air. The cool thing is, these ions can help heal our minds and bodies. My work is an abstract interpretation of “ions” and the energy of nature, fueling us and the world around us.…
Lynda McClanahan is a self-employed artist and musician living and working in Columbus Ohio. When not making art, Lynda maintains a large urban garden where she grows her own food and makes her own wine.
Linda McConaughy returned to the Cleveland area after a career as an art educator and visual arts supervisor in Baltimore Maryland. She works in many media including wood, fiber, paint, and found objects. Much of her recent work reflects a desire to attend to and decode the intricacies of place and time, particularly within the natural world.…
Erika McCoy
Watercolor Artist
Erika McCoy is a watercolor artist based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Erika has spent the last
twenty years in self study, honing her craft, and playing with color. She is passionate about exploring the beauty of nature through her work. Focused on florals, Erika’s paintings blend her love of watercolor with her fascination for light, shadow, color, and detail.
Kellie McDermott
Painter
After receiving her B.F.A. from Columbus College of Art and Design, Kellie McDermott continued to work on developing materials and techniques which include encaustic paintings as well as oils. Her work has been displayed in galleries including the McConnell Arts Center in Worthington, the Buckham Gallery in Flint, Michigan, and the Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, where she was given several awards from the Ohio Arts Council, the Peggy R.…
Maria McDonald is an oil painter who works at her studio in Canton, Ohio, and has a BFA from Kent State University. She creates paintings that reflect her view of the world she sees around her and the emotions she feels while navigating life. Grief, connection, love, comfort, and desire are some examples of the feelings she is inspired by.…
Mary McFarland
CEO
Tropes in Mary’s work spotlight environmental and cyber terrorism issues, but her characters’ focus is on breaking down barriers and saving themselves–and the earth.
Melissa McGee
Peer Support Specialist
I use art as an expression of showing my love poured back out to our Father in Heaven. He delivered me many times from drug addictions and other not so good things for my soul. I celebrate 9 years clean from heroin 🙏☺️ In every season I have seen His different characteristics, and I have tried to put it on paper or canvas.…
Kathy L. McGhee,
works at the Columbus College of Art & Design.
There she a professor in fine arts. She teaches introductory, intermediate and advanced printmaking. These include relief, serigraphy, lithography, and intaglio. McGhee, who has shown her work both nationally and internationally, is a practicing printmaker who has had her work published in Printmakers Today.…
Is a mother of three children who has often been inspiration for subject matter along with Grandson.
“The Vibrations of Life is the key to my inspiration.”
Noted for “her clear, focused sound,” mezzo-soprano Kira McGirr performs regularly in the Cleveland area, including as frequent soloist and member of Cleveland Chamber Choir; alto soloist and section leader with Trinity Chamber Singers and Cathedral Choir at Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland; as part of Trinity Cathedral’s BrownBag Concert Series; in the opera chorus and for outreach events with Cleveland Opera Theater; as part of the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Creative Fusion: Composers Series; and has been featured as alto soloist in Mozart’s Requiem, Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, Brahms’ Liebeslieder Waltzes, and Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms.
Jon McGregor
Multi-media Designer
A graduate of the Columbus College of Art & Design with 12+ years of experience, Jon has had had the pleasure of creating work for many different clients in many different industries, with a common thread of commercial art, often with a fun or whimsical nature or at times dark and eerie.
Daniel McInnis
Associate Professor of Photography and Digital Media
Daniel McInnis is a practicing documentary photographer whose primary interest is portraiture. Dan has taught as a professor of both photographic practice and history at Ithaca College, The American University of Dubai, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), School of Visual Arts (SVA), Wittenberg University, and The School of Art at Bowling Green State University. He is currently Associate Professor of Photography and Digital Media at University of Toledo.
James began in metalsmithing, with an aesthetic reminiscent of Arte Povera. Now, tactility and immediacy combine with feelings of urgency to create works of haunting intensity. There is a critical link between his rough materials and complicated feelings about aging. His studio is in SW Ohio.
Elise McKeown Skolnick received her first camera at age 10, as a Christmas gift. From the moment she held it in her hands she was intrigued. Even opening more presents lost its appeal. Instead, she made photos of her sisters and cousins (and still has those photos!). Photography never lost its appeal for her. Wherever she went she took a camera, and still does.…
Julia McLemore is an artist and educator, living and working in Columbus, OH. Her work is in a number of collections, including the Yale University’s Peter Palmquist Collection, the Columbus Museum of Art (Ohio), Scott’s Miracle Gro, Metro Health Systems (Ohio) and the Springfield Museum of Art (Ohio).
She holds a B.A. from Miami University, Ohio in English Literature. She also holds a B.F.A. degree from the Columbus College of Art & Design and an M.F.A. degree from The Ohio State University.
Dre McLeod is a contemporary fiber artist based in Ohio. She earned her BFA in Fashion Design from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2008, where her passion for fiber arts first took root.
With a distinctive artistic voice, Dre’s work has been shown at galleries in West Virginia, Ohio, and California.…
Educated in graphic design and visual communications at The Ohio State University, McLymont’s career as a self-taught, multi-disciplinary artist started in 2009, and includes forays into drawing, painting, sculpture, and jewelry design, letting the inspiration found through research lead her process.
Gerrie McManamon
Artist
As a child, I was always making things – sewing dolls, coloring, drawing, etc. I knew wanted to be an artist when I grew up. I ended up becoming a German/ Russian teacher and taught in Toledo and Columbus Schools for a combined 27 years. As I neared my retirement, I found myself with more time to create. I began taking classes in life drawing, printmaking, ceramics, and mixed media, online and at the Cultural Arts Center of Columbus. At this point, painting is my focus, but I still enjoy drawing, printmaking and mixed media work. I feel fulfilled as an artist when the viewer has an emotional connection with my work.
I am a passionate artist and entrepreneur based in Gahanna, Ohio. My interest in art started at an early age, with the Digi Draw and BloPens! From there, I grew to love freehand drawing, photography and most importantly, painting. I enjoyed painting in high school but it wasn’t until I took an oil painting class in college that I really discovered the right medium for me.…