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. For more information, contact Kathy Signorino, artist programs director, at kathy.signorino@oac.ohio.gov or 614-728-6140.
Elizabeth Bram
artist
Elizabeth Bram creates her happy paintings the way a child paints freely and spontaneously. Her work is unique and original. She shows us a different vision from her own inner world in her paintings.
Davon Brantley
Artist
Davon Brantley an artist based in Cleveland Ohio, shapes his body of work reflecting on personal narratives and experiences. Using an amalgam of materials, he heightens meaning erratically in textured portraits that convey heightened emotional states. Childhood trauma and experiences through life, are a motif through his body of work. Thus allowing him to tackle multiple issues through development into adult life/maturity.
Rick is a decades-long veteran landscape photographer specializing in capturing the beauty of our public lands and in working with organizations that conserve, protect and restore those lands. As a lifelong outdoorist and 14 time artist-in-residence for the National Park Service he’s spent years living alone and photographing in over 120 of America’s parks and forests.…
Cecilia Brendel
Artist
Born in St Louis Missouri in 1962, Cecilia Brendel’s initial art education was in Technical illustration and Graphic Arts. Illustrating for companies such as University of Notre Dame, Florida Institute of Technology, Harley Davidson, Holiday Rambler.
Her early illustrating career lead her into working for Publishers such as MacGraw-Hill Publishing, GMA Publishing and American Book Publishers, designing book covers, illustrating children’s books and illustrating technical articles and other publications. …
jane brenneman
teacher
I have been an artist for several years, This includes dancing since age 5 to the present in the areas of tap, jazz, tumbling, trampoline, ballet, adagio. Present I dance with adult tp class called off broadway studio. I have taught in various area studios over the years and coached gymnastic teams, even becoming a gymnastic judge. …
Karen Brenner
Painter
Karen Brenner has been specializing in realistic, oil paintings of horses for over 20 years. Using many layers of translucent colors, paintings evolve slowly with a luminous quality. She has traveled extensively, photographing hundreds of horses for reference for paintings.
Jacklyn Brickman (she/her) is a visual artist whose work entangles science fact with fiction to address social and environmental concerns by employing natural objects, processes, and technology. Her work spans installation, video, and performance, with a special interest in cross-disciplinary collaboration and social engagement.
Leigh Brooklyn was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio where she earned a B.F.A. in Biomedical Illustration. Later Brooklyn moved throughout the USA pursuing portrait street photography eventually returning to her roots of figurative drawing, painting and sculpture, obtaining her welding certification for sculptural use. Brooklyn’s work has been internationally displayed and awarded.
William Brouillard
Professor Emeritus
William Brouillard
Nationality: American, born in Madison Wisconsin
Education: BA, State University of Wisconsin, Stout, at Menomonie, WI.
Post Baccalaureate studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI.
M.F.A., Ceramic Art, SUNY, at Alfred, NY,
Professional Practice:
Studio Potter, Brouillard Studios, Cleveland, OH
Resident Craftsman at Penland School, Penland, NC, 1976-1978
Teaching
Professor of Art, Ceramics, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, From 1980
I began my work in clay, studying with John Perri at the State University of Wisconsin, at Menomonie, Wisconsin.…
Hiedi Brown
Artist
Hiedi Brown is an aspiring artist that utilizes several mediums to create concept art. She is a second generation artist that has been practicing multiple art forms most of her life. She studied at Metro State University in Colorado with a major in graphic design. Although born with dystonia; she is a free spirited artist who doesn’t let her disability hold her back.…
My current artistic practice is focused on printmaking and ceramics. I am a member artist at Studios on High Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, where I exhibit in both mediums. In the printmaking realm, I am most drawn to dry point etchings on acrylic and enjoy combining them with other techniques. I also create photopolymer gravure prints using light-sensitive metal plates (developed in plain water) and my own photographs and original drawings and combining these prints with graphite and charcoal. I am also a printmaking instructor at the Columbus Cultural Arts Center. The instructors and students all use non-toxic methods and materials for printmaking, and we are all conscious of reusing supplies and conserving our materials to the greatest extent possible. I ink and print all of my images by hand in small editions.
Abigail Bruce
Artist
Born in Toledo, Ohio. Abigail Bruce is a self taught artist and mother of two. She loves creating with her free time in all forms and mediums. Including and not limited to chalk art, jewelry making, painting, and more!
I have led a “double life” of sorts in the field of business, as well as art. I first received a B.S. in Economics from Lehigh University (graduating Cum Laude), followed by an MBA from Stanford Business School. Upon graduating from Stanford, during the tumultuous period of the Vietnam War, I spent several years in a pilot MBA program for VISTA (domestic Peace Corps) consulting for community groups in a Hispanic neighborhood in San Francisco.…
Diana Bruner
Artist/Designer
Experience with watercolors, oils, collage, and crafts have allowed her, over the years to develop, and explore ways to create new and exciting works, and to blend them with commercial art. Some are minimalist, others are representational which are translate into digital art prints. Currently, digital art is her forte.
Nazli Brush
Illustrator
Nazli Akcicek Brush is a Turkish multi-disciplinary artist working on a variety of artworks, from hand fans, to miniature illustrations, to digital works. Nazli earned a BFA from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul, and a certification in Art Education and Teaching from Marmara University in Istanbul. After completing her education, she moved to the United States where she continued her art career.Nazli currently lives in Ohio.…
Shannon Bryant
Artist, Painter
Shannon is an award-winning artist, former K-12 art teacher, and current adjunct art instructor with experience in a variety of media. She is an accomplished painter, working primarily in oils and acrylics, and has had her work displayed in numerous juried exhibits, including at the Riffe Gallery and the Ohio Governor’s Mansion. Shannon strives to capture the beauty of everyday life and surroundings that inspire her.
Cynthia Bryden
Artist
Artist Cynthia Bryden lives close to nature and it shows in her work. She enjoys painting in extremes, miniatures under 6 square inches as well as 3 foot flowers. She also likes to experiment with found and recycled objects by incorporating them into her work. She hopes you enjoy her artistic vision of the world.
Maria Burke pulls from a decade and a half of experience working in the museum exhibits field. She received her BFA in Biomedical Art from the Cleveland Institute of Art — studying zoology, biology, and techniques in scientific illustration. Her work draws from her experience in visual design, illustration, and museum taxidermy. She is driven by her deep love and passion for native wildlife and natural history.
Molly Jo Burke, b. 1984, is a Columbus, Ohio based artist, educator, and researcher. Burke received a BFA (2006) from Columbus College of Art & Design (CCAD), and her MFA (2009), from The Ohio State University (OSU). In 2019 she accepted the Barnett Fellowship from OSU’s Arts Administration Education and Policy Program to pursue her PhD. She has taught at OSU, CCAD, and Corning Museum of Glass. Her work has been featured most recently at Toledo Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France.
John Burroughs
Editor / Publisher
Burroughs is the U.S. National Beat Poet Laureate for 2022-2023 and previously served two years as the Beat Poet Laureate for Ohio. His recent books include Rattle & Numb: Selected and New Poems, 1992 – 2019 [2019, Venetian Spider Press] and Loss and Foundering [2018, NightBallet Press]. Burroughs moderates the Cleveland Poetics blog and literary calendar at clevelandpoetry.com and has curated several reading series across the north coast of Ohio. Since 2008, he has served as the founding editor of Crisis Chronicles Press, publishing over 100 titles by authors from around the world.