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
I received BFA and MFA degrees, both from The Ohio State University. I stopped making art for 25 years and only began again during the beginning weeks of the pandemic.
My focus since beginning again, is to look back on my life, creating mixed media collages that interweave very early experiences with those that have occurred throughout my life.
Jenniffer Omaitz
Artist / Educator
Omaitz lives in Kent, OH and works in Kent and Cleveland. She holds an M.F.A. in painting from Kent State University and a B.F.A (2009) in painting from the Cleveland Institute of Art (2002). Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at The Sculpture Center, Cleveland; SPACE Gallery, Denver; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland. Omaitz is a 2019 Ohio Arts Council grantee for an Individual Excellence Award.
Suzanne Ondrus
Dr.
Suzanne Ondrus’ work explores gender issues, racism, cultures, and women’s sexuality. Her first book, Passion Seeds, won the 2013 Vernice Quebodeaux Prize. She was the 2013 Reed Magazine Markham Poetry Prize winner, a 2017 UNESCO World Book Capital featured poet in Guinea, Conakry, and a 2018-2019 Fulbright Scholar to Burkina Faso, West Africa. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut and an M.F.A. from Bowling Green State University.
Opening Minds through Art (OMA) is an award-winning, evidence-based, intergenerational art-making program for people with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of neurocognitive disorders. Its failure-free program provides opportunities for creative self-expression and social engagement for people living with dementia.
Jeff Ostrowski (born 1978) is a mixed media artist specializing in paintings that juxtapose ancient artifacts with graffiti and contemporary themes.. Influenced by the writings of Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung and the work of the Surrealists, he creates work that is thought-provoking and celebrates the diversity of world cultures.
Diviandry Lee is a Puerto Rican painter. The painter is inspired by feminine themes, the delicacy and beauty of birds as well as the fragility of life.
The artist completed a Bachelor’s degree in Humanities. Concentration in Fine Arts with a concentration in Painting and a Certification in Small Business Administration at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.…
Joe Ott
Artist/Owner
Joe Ott grew up in Northeast Ohio and currently lives in West Akron. His passion for nature started at a young age. Inspired by his time in nature and hiking with his dogs, River and Vinny, he creates pieces that push creative boundaries of what is possible with the mediums he uses.
As a self-taught multimedia artist, Joe specials in wood, chainsaw, and metal sculptures. He also dabbles in watercolor, wood-burning, woodworking, and acrylic paint.
Sarah Pagliaro
Illustrator
With my love of wildlife and the great outdoors, combined with my spooky-cute aesthetic, my goal is to bring a little bit of happiness and laughter into the world through my art.
Michelle Paine
Artist
Michelle Arnold Paine is a contemporary painter with a unique freshness in her approach to representational painting. Her subjects of landscape, figure, and architecture draw on medieval texts, art historical images and observation of the nature and the built environment.
While she living and working for a study abroad program in Italy for three years, she became fascinated by the shapes and forms of medieval architecture and art which are the context of daily life there.…
Maria Palatsky
Artist
Maria Palatsky is a fine art and food photographer based in Columbus, Ohio.
Maria has earned an Associate of Applied Science degree in photography from Columbus State Community College, Ohio. And she has been photographing professionally since 2019.
Maria fell in love with photography after she received a camera as a gift.…
Bernard Palchick
Artist
Bernard Palchick is both an accomplished watercolorist and oil painter who works in a variety of styles including abstraction and magic realism. He obtained Bachelor of Arts at Purdue University and a Master of Fine arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. In addition to being a painter and sculptor Palchick’s career includes being a professor of art, an arts administrator, and a college administrator all at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, MI. …
Rocks are a particular focus of mine, the large expanse of rock exposed in the deserts of Arizona, California, and Utah. Multicolored, etched with nature’s designs, they provide me with a palette of color and line that I incorporate into my quilts. Trees, their bark, their growth pattern add to the possibilities. These elements come together through the use of the computer which allows me to slice and dice my images, layer them, adjust them, blend them, piece them, and manipulate them in myriad ways. What fun I have!
Christina Paolucci
Photographer & Documentary Filmmaker
Photographer and Documentary Filmmaker with a decade working as a daily newspaper photographer, produced five film in ten years and travels around the state capturing Ohio landscapes.
The photography of Bill Pappas features studies of people from a visually enhanced perspective, as well as scenic vignettes from a wide variety of domestic and international locations.
Magda Parasidis
Visual Artist
Magda Parasidis is a visual artist, designer and cultural worker, born in Athens, Greece. Parasidis received a B.A. in Art History and International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University, followed by engagements with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walters Art Gallery and the Guggenheim Collection, Venice. She holds a graduate degree in Advanced Artistic Studies from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan. She received a 2018 and 2019 Greater Columbus Arts Council grant, and a 2021 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. The monograph Magda Parasidis: Ghosts in Sunlight was published in 2021 in conjunction with an exhibition at Otterbein University. Her work has been recognized in statewide juried exhibitions and is held in both private and public collections.
Bradley Pargeon
Artist
I enjoy mixing different styles that I relate to the most and make my own thing. I enjoy the contrast between darkness and brightness and how they play off of each other.
Lori Park grew up in New England, Australia, and Dayton Ohio. As a teenager she worked as a wilderness guide and during college, on salmon fishing boats in Alaska. She started making sculptures at an early age, learning to cast metal as a teenager, later working in large-scale bronze, as well as in mixed media, wire, installation, textural panels, assemblage, kinetic works, and also cyanotypes and printmaking.…
Patricia Parker
Zinsmeister Parker Studio
1973 B.F.A. Kent State University
1975 M.A. K.S.U.
1981 M.F.A. K.S.U.
1978-1998 Adjunct professor The University of Akron, The School of Art
Hasu Patel
Director/Founder
Hasu Patel, composer, performer, and educator, is a world-class sitar artist specializing in the Gayaki Ang (vocal style), replicating the fluidity of the human voice. Trained by sitar legend Ustad Vilayat Khan Sahib of Imdad Khani Gharana, she is dedicated to preserving and propagating the classical music of ancient India in its purest form.
Dan Patterson; fascinated with flight his entire life employs his skills and talents as a designer and photographer to look at aviation in a different light. Over 30 books published which have been met with international acclaim and honored in 2003 as the National Aviation Hall of Fame’s first winner of the Harry B. Combs Award for Excellence in the Preservation of Aviation History.