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 take a mental health based approach to art that focuses on my personal experiences with self-harm recovery and my goal is to help others with similar struggles.
Rani Reyes-Martin
Artist
Hello, I’m Rani, an artist deeply immersed in a world of colors and creativity, shaped by a rich family heritage of painters. Professionally a physical therapist, my passion for painting has been a constant. Balancing family and career, I painted whenever I could, and now, rekindling that passion, each stroke becomes a celebration of God’s handiwork, adding vibrancy to the world.
Mark Rhodes
Vocalist/Guitar/Songwriter
Mark Rhodes is a Singer/Songwriter based out of Columbus, Ohio. His latest release is called Long Time Coming and it features a very soulful telling of the artists life story. Mark packs a whole lot of soul into every note and has been doing it for 30 years. His love for music and performance comes through in every song.
Alison Rich
Visual Art Educator
Alison Miltner Rich is a resident of Cuyahoga Falls and has been working in watercolor for the past twenty years. She enjoys the process of layering and building details to create work that expresses her love of nature. She teaches art at Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts. Rich recently received a City of Cuyahoga Falls River in the City Grant through the National Endowment for the Arts.
Bio/Resume:
In 1979, I attended classes at the Alexander School of Painting in San Diego, California. From Alexander Chidichimo I learned the basics of looking at objects in terms of blotches and shapes rather than objects, and constructing complex color palates.
In the beginning years I focused on realism, painting still-life and portraits in oils, then, moving to pastel portraiture.
In 2014 I developed the contemporary abstract style of “The Gene Pool Series” in oils.
Currently, my focus is on Extreme Realism all in the medium of Colored Pencil.
Rosalyn Richards
Professor Emerita
Rosalyn Richards’s work is represented in many museum and corporate collections such as the Guangdong Museum of Contemporary Art in China, Capital One in Richmond, Virginia and the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. She has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and an MFA from Yale University School of Art.
Helena Sarah Richardson
Artist
Helena Sarah Richardson is an artist originally from Cleveland Heights, Ohio. She earned a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA in Textiles from Kent State University.
Hollis Richardson
Artist
With over 80 years of making art following his intuition, love of life and people, the challenge of using good design to create great art never ends for Hollis Richardson. Influenced by life experiences with rural and native cultures, and remaining open to the influence of various expressive artists, his work has evolved from realism and impressionism to stylized and abstract forms of modern art that are unique and distinctive.
Sarah Ridenour is a contemporary artist currently creating in the Columbus, Ohio area, with a focus on 2D painting exploring themes surrounding femininity, the social constructs of gender, violence, and the media, with an outlook to explore a variety of identities and the issues surrounding them. Sarah’s work is categorized by her bold use of color and form to convey almost hyper-feminine dreamlike tableaus, while maintaining an undercurrent of unease and the grotesque.…
Paul Rienzo is an award-winning artist in Cincinnati, Ohio. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including an article in American Artist’s Watercolor Magazine. He has shown around the US, including a solo exhibition in New York City’s Soho district. In 2021, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the international Art Comes Alive exhibition. Paul is also an experienced juror and four-time author.
Tim Rietenbach
Faculty Director of Galleries
Tim Rietenbach lives and works in Columbus, OH, where he serves as the Faculty Director of Galleries and Professor of fine arts at Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD). He earned a bachelor of fine arts in painting from CCAD in 1979 and a master of fine arts in sculpture from The Ohio State University (OSU) in 1991.
Steven Riggs
artist, painter, designer
Steven Riggs is a professional artist working in strict old world disciplinary methods using only the highest quality archival materials. Steven’s work is multi-disciplinary that is inclusive of oils on canvas, graphite on papers and board and watercolors. Steven is known for his striking portrait work that goes beyond likeness and captures the personality of the subject.
Steven is a teacher of all things art with an extensive teaching background.
He has participated in many solo exhibits as well as collective and group exhibits nationwide.
Steven Riggs
Artist
Steven Riggs was born and raised in Detroit Michigan in spill the age of 11. His father moved the family to Ohio. Steven spent much of his high school years working on Art and studying art and art history. After high school he entered into a. Of Relentless intense study of anatomy and the techniques and processes of Old World Masters.
Steven and his wife have three adult sons and make their home in Pickaway County where he maintains a studio
Brooke Ripley
Fine Artist
Brooke Ripley is a fine artist from rural Ohio whose textural, multimedia work depicts the discrepancies inherent in memory.
Eric Rippert is a visual artist mining poignant personal imagery; investigating those particular remembrances that never appear in full focus, triggering intuition, and exploring the complex intersections of individual and collective memory. His work resides in the permanent collections of Cleveland Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland Clinic Art Program, and Summa Health Art Collection.…
Born and raised in Southern California, Connor spent the first 10 years of his adult life as a software engineer. After moving to Cleveland in 2021 and helping his wife through grad school, the stars aligned at the end of 2023 for Connor to pursue his true passion for art full time. He now spends his days creating functional art pieces and attending art markets to sell his work.
Robert Robbins is an internationally exhibited visual artist who explores issues of social, political and environmental conflict through landscape as subject. His art, which takes the form of large-scale paintings, on the surface appears straight-forward, but on closer inspection leaves the viewer to contemplate their position in the world.
I create paper mache and paper mache clay which I make myself, and I create also out of different kinds of clay. And wood. And glass. And whatever catches my eye. I paint on canvas and wood and on my sculptures and anything else I can find. My creations are without a doubt whimsical and full of color. When I “work” on them, I might forget to eat. Or clean. And that isn’t a bad thing.
Nicky is an intuitive, mostly self-taught painter, with an interest in abstract mixed media painting. Some of her works are entirely non-representational, others are semi-abstract with recognizable images. Many of her pieces have heavy palette knife work and bright, rich colors. Mark making, collage, many textures and layers are also common in her pieces.