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
Jeni Bate
Artist
Jeni Bate lives in the desert south west – a low place under a vast dome of sky. This is a constant reminder of how small we are in the face of all things, and when filled with clouds, an ever changing muse.
Hannah Bates received an MFA in Craft/Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and a BFA in Fine Arts at Columbus College of Art and Design. Hannah has taught within glass programs at VCU and Kent State University, and teaches metal casting workshops, most recently at the Akron Art Museum. She was an artist-in-residence at ACRE residency, chaNorth, and Sculpture Space.…
Cherie Kuhn Bauer attended Hollins University in 1973 and studied printmaking with Nancy Dahlstrom. After graduating with departmental honors in Studio Art she returned home to Cleveland and began working at the Cleveland Museum of Art, first in the Department of Prints and Drawings and then in the Library. She continued with her printmaking, exhibiting in juried and individual exhibitions including the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Virginia Museum in Richmond. …
I’ve spent my life devoted to creating, teaching, and learning about art. My inspiration comes my life as a woman, wife, mother, student, teacher and an inhabitant of this earth.
I was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. I received a BFA from the University of Dayton and an MA in Art Education from OSU. I’ve been a teaching artist for over 20 years and freelance artist for over 25 years mostly in central Ohio. I’ve recently moved back home to the Dayton area and excited about the Dayton area arts scene.
My works are mixed of printing and other painting materials such as collage, acrylic and color pencil. The source of my inspiration is from Persian history and Iran the country that I was born and my family .
Doug Becht (b. 1985 in Cleveland, Ohio; lives and works near Wooster, Ohio) is a contemporary mixed-media artist best known for his distinctive approach influenced by Pop Art, Neo Expressionism, and cubism. His artworks delve into life, nostalgia, and the human experience.
Karen D. Beckwith
Tamarind Master Printer
Certain she needed to be an artist from the time she was a small child, Karen Beckwith graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1987 with a B.F.A in Printmaking and Illustration. In 1998 she became part of a premier group of printmakers who have successfully completed Tamarind Institute’s Master Printer Fellowship.
As a Master Printer Karen has worked collaboratively with well known artists, and as a Professional Artist her personal body of artistic work has been exhibited across the United States and Internationally.…
Biography
Gary Beeber is an award-winning American photographer and filmmaker who has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the world. He has had numerous solo photography exhibitions and his documentary films have been screened at over 150 film festivals. Pfizer Pharmaceutical, Goldman Sachs and Chase Bank are Fortune 500 companies who collect his work.
Diane Belfiglio (pronounced Bel FEE lee o) earned her B.F.A. in Drawing, Painting, and Graphics from The Ohio State University in 1978, and her M.F.A. in Painting from Syracuse University in 1980. Also in 1980, she was awarded a $6000 Aid-to-Individual- Artists Fellowship Grant from the Ohio Arts Council. Since that time, she has received numerous professional awards, including four Arts in Stark grants from 2011-2014.…
Ceré Bellow is a Columbus multimedia artist based in the Blacklick area. She works out of her home studio. She was born in 1988 in San Diego, California. She and her mother moved to Columbus in 1997 and have lived here ever since. She spent four years studying the arts and graduated from Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center in 2006.…
Kirsta Niemie Benedetti lives and works in Columbus, Ohio with her husband and two daughters. She completed her Bachelor’s degree at Columbus College of Art and Design and has worked as a freelance artist partnering with Minted and West Elm since 2015, and as a commissioned artist for patrons around the country.
Currently, Kirsta is launching The Whole Picture Project, an initiative to bring people together through art and storytelling.
Lauren Benjamin
Mixed Media Artist
Lauren Ashleigh is an artist of many mediums who earned her BFA in Studio Art in 2015. Known for adding sculptural and natural elements to paintings. She uses things like glass, joint compound, acrylic mediums, and found objects to build her pieces up. In 2016 Lauren had to begin navigating through new mental illness diagnoses that altered her entire life.…
Jaime Bennati is an artist whose practice is grounded in altering everyday materials and collections to create relief sculptures, collages and installations. Bennati is currently an upper school visual arts teacher at the Wellington School, and has previously served as an arts instructor at the Wexner Center for the Arts and Columbus College of Art & Design, and as a residence artist at the Universidade de Federal de Goias in Goiânia, Brazil.…
Best known for her vibrant and expressive use of acrylic paint and mixed media, Robie Benve expresses her creativity by utilizing paper, ink, markers, and fibers to craft pieces that embody the essence of her inspiration. Her work is characterized by the incorporation of intricate patterns and unique marks, resulting in a distinctive visual language that captures the imagination.
Born and raised in the culturally rich landscape of Italy, Benve stands as a testament to the transformative power of art. The first of her family to graduate from college, she earned an MBA from the University of Venice, Italy. In 2010, her journey led her to Columbus, Ohio, where she found the opportunity to pursue her artistic calling.
Over the years, her award-winning work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions across Ohio. Her creations have found a home in private collections in the United States, Spain, and Italy.
In twenty-two years as an art teacher, stateside and overseas, I eventually taught grades Pre-K thru 12th. Meanwhile I established myself as an installation artist, exhibiting in the Midwest and East Coast, with architectural-referenced works. Included in my pursuits were a number of fellowships and residencies. Lately my focus and materials have shifted to those structures in the natural world and their relationship to the structures of the human brain and nervous system. The presentation and materials of my works reflect my investment in process (how we see and comprehend) and in the expressive elegance of the simple and the natural material.
Mark Berger
Photographer
I was born in Columbus, Ohio. My interest in photography started just prior to entering college.I have worked in many different areas of Photography, Portraiture, Weddings, Sports, Performing Arts, Commercial/Industrial, Nature and Scenic Americana. Photography is a very direct graphic medium. When you see through the lens of the camera is what you expect to see in the print.
Deb Berkebile
Textile Artist and Instructor
Technology and nature inspire creator of Great Lakes quilt; Ohio woman turns satellite images, thermal photographs into art.
I am a naturalist and environmentalist at heart. My current body of work explores satellite imagery and creating ‘false-color’ artistic depictions of remote sensed satellite images (Geographical Information Systems). I have eight quilts in my “Earth in Three Bands: R, G, B” Series: The Painted Desert, Eye of Sahara, The Great Salt Desert, Susitna Glacier, The Grand Canyon, Galileo Inspiration, The Great Lakes and my latest Rocky Mountain Trench. The vivid colors and their outstanding variations are what first drew me to these representations. I also use other remote sensed imagery taken from our National Parks for my art. My first quilt in this series was inspired by a thermal image of an eruption of the Old Faithful geyser taken in Yellowstone National Park.
George Berlin
Creative Genius
George Berlin believes that deepening connections between people and the places they love is an incredible use of creativity. His studio’s unforgettable multi-sensory experiences build on emotion to create wondrous worlds that bring people together through projection mapping, light art, and live performances.
Keith Berr
Photographer
Keith Berr is an international advertising and fine arts photographer. A graduate of the Brooks Institute of Photography, he has developed a unique live/work compound in Cleveland’s Asia Town, where he holds frequent events, fundraisers and educational gatherings, helping people and organizations connect and share their strongest assets towards promoting the arts.
His clients include a broad range of major corporations, non-profit institutions, and small businesses. …