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 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.
Brian Robinson is an artist and educator based in Dover, Ohio. He uses pastels to feature and bring attention to Ohio landscapes. Light, and the color that is produced from different atmospheric conditions in the landscape, has been a driving force in his work. Robinson graduated from The University of Akron in 1995 and received his master’s degree in painting from Kent State University in 2003.
Wesley Robinson
Wallstreet Wes
“At a stage in my life where a stage and my life are one and the same !”
Alex has performed in Simone Forti’s The Work Is Never Done at MoMA and worked with artists such as Tess Dworman, Moriah Evans, Miguel Gutierrez, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Derek Smith and Bailey Williams among others. Alex most recently performed in Moriah Evans’ REPOSE. Alex’s work has been shown at Movement Research at Judson Church, Draftworks, Double Plus at Gibney, PRELUDE, and American Realness. See more at http://www.alexrodabaugh.work.
Irene Rodriguez
Artist
My artwork includes acrylics, watercolors, original art quilts, block prints, scratch art, digital paintings, photographs, ink drawings, gourd art, and various three dimensional art including hand felted wool head figures.
Daniel Rodriguez Hijo
Director/Playwright/Producer
Daniel Rodriguez Hijo is an Ohio-based director, playwright, producer and theatre educator. Influenced by his own upbringing in a small, rural arts program, Danny has inspired both artist and audience alike across communities for 12 years. From directing world-premiere plays, writing original shows, and producing award-winning theatre, Danny is dedicated to promoting human connection in an increasingly distant world.
My whole life I’ve been interested in history and the art history classes I was required to take my second time around were valuable in showing me what came before and helping to mold my personal style. In 2005 I discovered another creative outlet for my artistic skills in the form of writing. This has also complimented my visual side.
Joel Rogers is a life long artist. He grew up in Mayfield Village, Ohio, attended Mayfield Hight School and Cooper School of Art in Cleveland, Ohio.
His formal art education was interrupted when his number came up during the days of the military lottery. After serving his military commitment in the army he returned to Ohio and a career as an illustrator for Artist Studio and other studios in the Cleveland area.…
My attempts often fuse elements of realism and expressionism with abstract forms, creating pieces that are both grounded and dreamlike.
I am a self-taught painter who works primarily in watercolor. My artistic journey has been shaped by a deep curiosity and a desire to explore the emotional range of portraiture. My attempts often fuse elements of realism and expressionism with abstract forms, creating pieces that are both grounded and dreamlike. While my early focus was on the nuances of human faces and form, my recent work has embraced a freer, more abstract style, allowing more room for emotion and intuition to guide my brush.
Priscilla Roggenkamp
Retired Associate Professor of Art
Priscilla is a working artist and a retired associate professor of art at Ashland University.
Stephanie Rond (Columbus, Ohio) is an internationally recognized painter whose street art, canvas paintings, and community works subvert and reimagine traditional expectations of space, gender, and power. Rond is the founder of WomenStreetArtists.com and S.Dot Gallery, a dollhouse that exhibits miniature art pieces and challenges notions of domesticity and art accessibility.
Michael Rosen
artist, author
Michael J. Rosen is a creative problem-solver, whether in poetry, paint, collage, or sculpture. He has spent nearly seven decades in Central Ohio, working as an artist, teacher, consultant, editor, children’s book author, graphic designer, poet, and anthologist.
Melinda Rosenberg’s work is informed by wood, the craft of woodworking, painting the desire to point to the extraordinary in the everyday.
K. Rossi is a self-taught artist based in central Ohio who works with oil paints and digital media. His work focuses on the human body and explores themes of gender, solitude, personhood, and the human experience. Early in his career he practiced pointillism, a technique which informs his use of color to this day, while developing his process and skill in figure drawing.
Susan Rossiter
Artist
I’m Mixed Media Artist inspired by the colors, shapes and patterns of the 50’s through the 70’s. By Mixed Media, I simply mean using more than just paint in my pieces. In college I studied fine art metals, printmaking, design, and art history as well as painting and drawing. I incorporate all of it into making my own unique papers and collage elements. Texture, composition and color auditions play a big part in my process and I love my job- it gives me those good brain chemicals. I work and live in Ohio between two studios and teach workshops online and in person all over the country. My strengths are discipline, focus and an absurd sense of humor.
John K. Rozelle (b. 1999) is a contemporary American painter and colorist, living and working in Ohio of the United States. He received his undergraduate degree in Art and Architecture History from Miami University of Ohio in 2021.
Born to a Navy family, John grew up in various States and European countries. Living overseas, he was exposed to masterpieces of antiquity from which he draws his love for art and culture.
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