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
Greg Neat
Artist – Illustrator – Designer
I was born in Campbellsville, Kentucky, and earned my degree in Commercial Art and Graphic Design from Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, graduating in 1991. Since then, I’ve worked full-time as a designer, illustrator, and web designer across a range of industries including advertising, retail fashion, interactive design studios, web development, and corporate communications.…
JD Neely
Illustrator
My name is JD, I’m a self-taught artist from northeast Ohio and I’ve been doing art since childhood. Over 20 years ago I went on a journey to discover my own style of art and since that moment it has become a core part of my approach to creating art.
Everyone is unique and we must discover what makes us unique.…
Ardine Nelson
Professor Emerita
Professor Emerita, OSU has exhibited nationally and internationally, received OAC and GCAC artist fellowships, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography. Her work is included in numerous public collections. Nelson’s practice includes traditional and non-traditional use of cameras and materials.
Kostiantyn is a bas relief artist who has worked in wood but prefers the fluidity of plaster. Already as a Russian boy of three, he loved to sketch beautiful bouquets of flowers for his Mother. As a young man in the Ukraine he used his God given talent to design and carve beautiful wooden boxes for gifts for special people in his life. Needing to enter the work force, he began working in construction and interior design. Left over plaster from jobs was not wasted but became bas relief floral designs on walls of friends. Continuing in construction and drywall work after moving to the US, Kostiantyn has worked in replacing and restoring walls and ceilings in museums, theaters, and homes, leaving behind final touches of beautiful bas relief plaster designs. He also enjoys creating smaller framed bas reliefs from plaster, and can work both from the heart creatively as well as from an actual request for a relief of specific design
Arta Noor
Artist
As Vincent Van Gogh once said eloquently: “I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.” This quote resonates deeply with me as I too love to create with passion in all my endeavors and it has been a way of life for me since childhood. Furthermore, in my art, I strive to reach a state of balance between the technical and emotional aspects in my paintings using the elements of design (lines, shapes, colors, textures and space) in conjunction with array of expressions and techniques to evoke and inspire observers to explore meaningful possibilities within their own imaginations. …
Char Norman is an accomplished fiber artist specializing in weaving, papermaking, and fiber sculpture. Her work addresses environmental issues and the enduring need for all things to exist in a symbiotic relationship with none dominant over another. She received a Master of Fine Art from Claremont Graduate University, a Bachelor of Art from Scripps College and participated in numerous residencies across the nation and abroad. She has lectured and exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, winning numerous grants and awards.
Leslie Norman
Photographer
Leslie Norman is primarily a self-taught photographer working in analog film and alternative processes. She currently lives in Knox County with her family.
Kathleen Norris
Retired
I live in Westerville, Ohio, with my husband, Gary. I retired in 2019 after serving for over 40 years as a teacher and school administrator. I then began a personal artistic journey that became my right of passage from retirement to a new era of exploration, transformation, and evolution into the visual arts.
David Noss
Artist
My career as an artist has been about 60 years in the making. Here is a brief story: As a boy, my uncle lived on Long Island near New York City where we would visit several times each year. Coming from Northeast Pennsylvania where there were few opportunities, visiting my Uncle helped open my eyes to a much deeper, wider world.…
Recent Exhibitions:
Solo Exhibition – Napoleon Armory Gallery, Napoleon, Ohio 2018
Group Exhibitions – Stola Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois 2021, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois 2021, Grosse Pointe Artists Association, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan 2021, The Wassenberg Art Center, Van Wert, Ohio 2020, Leslie Wolfe Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 2020, Artlink, Fort Wayne, Indiana 2020, The Wassenberg Art Center, Van Wert, Ohio 2020, Waterloo, Cleveland, Ohio 2020, The Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, Illinois 2020, Grosse Pointe Artists Association, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan 2020, Frankfort Arts Association, Frankfort, Illinois 2020, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois 2020, The Black Box Gallery, Dearborn, Michigan 2020, Valley Art Center, Chagrin Falls, Ohio 2020, Artlink, Fort Wayne, Indiana 2020, The Art Center Highland Park, Highland Park, Illinois, 2020, The Box Factory 2019 Members Show, St.…
Gedion Nyanhongo
Sculptor
Stone sculptor Gedion Nyanhongo was born into an artistic family in 1967 in Nyanga, Zimbabwe, Africa. He was influenced from a very young age by his father, Claud Nyanhongo, a prominent artist among the “first generation” sculptors, the pioneers of the Shona Sculpture Movement (sculpture unique to Zimbabwe) that began in the late 1950s.
After an apprenticeship with the internationally acclaimed sculptor Joseph Ndandarika, Gedion embarked on a solo career in 1988, where his vision and technical skills have earned him international recognition as a sculptor of excellence.
Eileen O’Connor
Owner
Eileen paints outdoors mostly in three seasons. At times in winter too she will venture out into the snow to paint. More often though when the weather becomes less cooperative, she brings her plein air studies into the studio as reference to create larger oil paintings.
Her training dates to 2000 and includes a mentorship with Kami Mendlik, founder of St.…
Maureen O’Keefe is a portrait and figure painter living and working in mid-western Ohio. The process
for Maureen’s current body of work involves a return to the blind-contour drawing that is taught in
beginning art classes. The artist never lifts the pencil from the surface and never looks at the drawing;
only at the subject.…
Chaz O’Neil
Individual Artist Programs & Percent for Art Coordinator
Chaz O’Neil is fascinated by space exploration, and this body of work reflects his interest in the messages that humans have sent into outer space in search of intelligent life. The repeated image in his Messenger Series is taken from the etched plaque designed by renowned astronomer Carl Sagan for NASA’s Voyager and Pioneer spacecraft.…
I am a hobbyist photographer that has enjoyed photography for several years. Living in northeastern Ohio I am afforded opportunities to travel to some of the most beautiful countryside scenes.
Alissa Ohashi
Artist
Alissa Ohashi is an experimental, multidisciplinary visual artist. Ohashi received her MFA from Columbus College of Art & Design, and is an instructor of digital photography and collage. She recently completed a one-year contract as the Arts in the Parks Coordinator with Ohio Department of Natural Resources and the Ohio Arts Council. She also completed Artist-In-Residence programs at Fox Hollow Ranch (Bloomingville, Ohio), Springfield Art Association (Springfield, Illinois), Surel’s Place (Boise, Idaho), and served as a Fellow at the Columbus Printed Arts Center (Columbus, OH).…
Teresa Olavarria
Artist & Instructor
Graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Dayton and studied Art Therapy at the University of Louisville. She continues refining and expanding her skills with classes in metal casting, glass, lapidary and 3D printing. She has taught class in metal enameling, drawing, ink painting and collage to both adults and children.
Dana Oldfather is a painter who has exhibited internationally and nationally in galleries and museums including Library Street Collective, Detroit, Zg Gallery, Chicago, Kathryn Markel Fine Art, New York, The McDonough Museum of Art in Youngstown, The Carnegie Center for Art and History in New Albany, and The University of Southern Queensland, in Australia. She was awarded the William and Dorothy Yeck Award for Young Painters, two Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards, and most recently, a Satellite Fund Emergency Relief Grant from SPACES Gallery, The Warhol Foundation, and The Cleveland Foundation.
My art degree is from The Ohio State University although I also took classes at BGSU and Cleveland Institute of art In addition to majoring in math and science at OSU before moving into art.