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
Scott Simler
Artist
Scott creates paintings that have been coined “Masters Mash Ups”. For a “Master’s Mash Up”, Scott combines elements inspired by artworks created by master artists, and then he adds his own creativity, resulting in a unique and original artwork. Colorful, playful and entertaining, his paintings reveal a magical mashed up world that bursts onto the surface with unique fervor. Sometimes Scott’s “Master’s Mash Ups” pay clever homage to the artworks that brought him inspiration, and sometimes you can barely see any tangential references. Regardless of his approach, however, the unique character of his own creativity emerges and makes the artwork clearly his own.
Annette Simon earned a BFA in Graphic Design from Ohio University and
worked as a freelance designer and fine artist from Studio 7.5 until joining Studios on High Gallery
in Columbus, OH in 2018. Her work has won several awards as well as
being juried into many exhibits including the Columbus Ohio Museum of
Art – Saying Goodbye to the Russel Page Garden, Springfield Museum of
Art – Plein Air and the Ohio State Fair.…
AJ Skelly
Author; CEO
AJ Skelly is an author, reader, and lover of all things fantasy, medieval, and fairy-tale-romance. And werewolves. She has a serious soft spot for them. As an avid life-long reader and a former high school English teacher, she’s always been fascinated with the written word. She lives with her husband, children, and many imaginary friends who often find their way into her stories.…
Mary Skrenta
Materialsmith
Mary Skrenta is a multi-media artist and craftsperson. She holds three degrees in art, and creates and teaches in the Columbus community.
She uses a combination of experimental and traditional media to create work that provokes thought, reflects on human metaphysical evolution, and questions notions of value. She is influenced by nature, philosophy, and ageism in contemporary society.
She is equally passionate about teaching, making, and living mindfully. She believes each practice informs the other, and that sharing the gift of creativity is a vocation, not a job.
Cory Skurdal
Playwright
My plays, including Abundant Life, Catspaw, Sticks & Stones, The Body Politic, and Adeste Fideles have been produced/developed by Original Productions Theatre (OPT), Evolution Theatre Company, CATCO, The Tipping Point Theatre Company, Curtain Players, MadLab, and the Jewel Box Theatre. I received the CATCO/Greater Columbus Arts Council Playwriting Fellowship and the Jewel Box Theatre Playwriting Award. I am a member of The Dramatists Guild and the Central Ohio Theatre Roundtable.
Hannah Slagell, born and raised in Springfield, Ohio, discovered her passion for ceramics in 2020, thanks to her grandmother, Sara Suver. Currently, she is pursuing a BFA in ceramics at The Ohio State University. During her studies, Hannah has been experimenting with various materials in the ceramic studio, including different clay bodies, decals, molds, glazes, and kiln firings.…
Maxx Slater
Visual Artist
Real human emotion in the age of social media and AI, is the main focus of Maxx Slater’s work.
Todd Slaughter
artist
I have increasingly developed my large scale artworks in collaboration with engineers and architects. My most recent art practice interests are reflected in my artworks concerning individual American individualism, isolationism, and romantic naturalism.
I also have developed a body of personal artworks including drawings, cast aluminum flowers and weeds, suspended cats,
A catalog of my recent work may be downloaded at my website:
Quentin Sledge
Dancer, choreographer, writer, painter, teacher, reiki master
Quentin ApolloVaughn Sledge attended Morehouse College from 2010-2014 and earned a BA in management. He joined the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company in 2014 and has worked with a multitude of icons including Mr. Donald McKayle, Francesca Harper, Donald Byrd, Ray Mercer, Ron K. Brown and many more. He has taught and performed all over he world in theaters such as the Joyce, Lincoln Center, and Bolshoi and in 2016, he was a soloist in the Bessie awarded revival of Donald McKayle’s “Rainbow ‘Round My Shoulder” . Quentin is a certified teacher off the Lester Horton, Talawa contemporary African, and the Umfundalai dance techniques
Originally from Charleston, West Virginia, Gaynelle Sloman is an award-winning artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and writer. Her unique acrylic and mixed media work is primarily abstract impressionistic, but she is also expressionistic in style. She also sometimes works in colored pencils and pastels, using a more illustrative style.
She studied art at West Virginia University and the Columbus College of Art & Design, holding BA degrees in both art and psychology from UC.…
Megan Smallwood
Artist
After successfully catching them all, Meg Smallwood left her secluded forest home to explore the rest of Ohio. She found it lacking in fantastic, bright, colorful things, and thus took on the quest to bring color to as many surfaces as she could. Joined in her quest is her partner Dan and together they spawned two somewhat helpful offspring. …
I have been interested in photography for as long as I can remember. When I was a child of 8, my family emigrated from Germany at the beginning of WWII. We had to leave everything behind, and during all of my childhood, I wished I could see baby pictures of myself as well as pictures of my family.…
Jeffrey Smith
Landscape Photographer
I grew up in Dayton, flew with the USAF and retired to Dayton where I pursue landscape photography. I chase sunsets/twilights. I also create images using Evidence-based design (EBD) principles. EBD is an approach where researchers realized that people feel relaxed, heal faster, and become more productive when surrounded by certain calming images of nature. I hope these vibrant prints bring you a few moments of peace and solitude.
Jerry Smith
Artist
ARTIST BIO: Jerry Smith (born 1956) is a re-emerging artist who received his BFA in 1979 from Miami University with a concentration in painting and printmaking, and his MFA in 1981 from the University of Colorado focusing on painting and drawing. In addition to traditional mediums, Jerry’s early work consisted of life-sized three-dimensional abstract figures made from torn and woven tar paper, paint, and roofing compounds on carved wood armatures. …
Kelsey Anilee Smith stitches her way through the wildflowers that live where she lives. A love of history that inspires her use of vintage pieces and traditional sewing methods in unusual ways. She uses techniques like sashiko, embroidery, and needle-turn applique to create tapestries that incorporate varies beautiful textiles both old and new to bring a new perspective on plants native to the midwest and northeast.
Klaire Smith was born in the hills of Southern Ohio and raised in Portsmouth, Ohio; the region having always been a point of inspiration. She was certified as a Professional Printer at the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico studying lithography and was trained professionally as a collaborator. Klaire’s current work utilizes woodblock printing, toucheing on regionalism, Appalachia, and all its complexities.
Madelaine is a ceramicist and painter finishing her BA in Studio Art at Cedarville University. She will graduate in the spring of 2024 with additional minors in History and Biblical Studies. Madelaine works as a Gallery Assistant and Barista at Cedarville University, even helping to redesign the logo of the campus coffee shop in 2023.…
Rachel Suzanne Smith is an artist, metalsmith, and educator. She is currently working as the Fabrication Lab Supervisor at Oberlin College. She received her undergraduate degree at Miami University in Art Education with minors in 3D Media Studies (jewelry/metals) and Spanish. She received her MFA in Crafts (Jewelry Metals Enameling) at Kent State University. Smith maintains a solo studio practice as well as one in collaboration with Jennifer Ramirez.
Erin Smith Glenn
Professor + Entrepreneur
Erin Morgan Smith Glenn is an associate professor of art, former VP of the board for the Dayton Society of Artists, and alum of Central State University. She holds an M.F.A. from the University of Cincinnati, respectfully. Erin has had her work shown in various regional, national and international exhibitions in Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Louisiana, Vermont, Texas, Virginia and Illinois, including numerous solo exhibitions and is also the creator and faculty lead for CSU’s Fine Arts Study Abroad program (Italy, 2022; Paris, 2024).
Among Erin’s lifelong pursuits is to continually practice her overall creative experiences, vowing never to stop “growing as an artist and individual”, while always striving to instill this concept in her students, mentees and her three children, as she does within herself.
When not participating as an educator or practitioner, TheScarvinArtist LLC occupies much of her entrepreneurial time, as she accepts painting and drawing commissions, and creates unique crocheted and other artisanal designs and mixed media projects. Etsy, IG and FB have been her main platform for showcasing her business exploits.
Allison Hope Smith Hernandez is an artist and non-profit administrator, specializing in advancement, communications, events, and exhibitions.
Smith Hernandez is a double alumnus of Kent State University –holding a BFA and MFA in studio art with a concentration in textiles– where she served as the Graduate Assistant to the Director of the School of Art Collection and Galleries and received a Student Senate Research Grant and Award for her MFA thesis exhibition.
She was honored by the Ohio Museums Association as the 2022 Emerging Professional of the Year and served as Co-Chair of the Equity & Values Committee of the Ennials Alliance from 2023–2024. Smith Hernandez is a former exhibiting artist in the U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies program, 2021–2024.