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.
2024 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
“If we are talking rock and roll, Tina Turner was a national treasure, country has Dolly Parton and in the world of storytelling we have Kim Weitkamp.” Steve Perry, Highway 89, Sirius XM.
Singer, songwriter, storyteller, funny human. Just a few of the titles used to introduce Kim Weitkamp to her audiences.
“A voice like warm honey. …Kim studs her storytelling performances with bits of music Americana that match the sweet tones of her narratives.”The Oregonian
John Weller’s passion for photography began quite by accident when he purchased a digital camera for his wife’s birthday in 2004. Largely self-taught, he has supplemented his education attending workshops by Stephen Johnson and John Paul Caponigro. After nearly 30 years working in the technical fields of engineering and network administration he decided to pursue photography as a full time endeavor in 2012.…
Andrea Chenoweth Wells, DMA, is an Ohio based soprano, opera director, and educator. She has appeared on the operatic and concert stage around the country and is an avid supporter and performer of new works. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton, where she teaches voice, aural skills, opera, and a course of her own design, Music and Faith On Stage.
Lauren Wells
Artist
Lauren Wells is an artist who lives and works in Dayton, Ohio. Originally from Dallas, Texas, she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from the University of Texas in Austin. Her work focuses on narrative oil painting. She is also active in the Cincinnati and Dayton area Urban Sketchers groups.
Linda Wesner, a realistic landscape artist living in Delaware County, Ohio, works in colored pencil, oil and acrylic, and collage. She grew up on a farm in Upstate New York and earned Master’s degree in Art from SUNY at Oswego.
Her award-winning work is featured in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, including The National Art Club, Manhattan; The College of Notre Dame, Baltimore; The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Memphis; The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; Academy of Art College, San Francisco; and Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts, Chicago.…
Designer of adornments,
Delver of semi-conscious concepts,
Explorer of seams.
I graduated from Hiram College in 1966 with a BA in German Literature and Art History. My wife finds my German skills handy in completing crosswords. While at Hiram I completed a twelve week sabbatical studying the art of Europe. The art of toasting in multiple languages being among other skills learned. After a stint covering the geography of Vietnam for two years I returned to the US to begin as the fourth generation of Wheelers to become a metal worker, as owner and operator of the Evening Star Forge, in 1971 in Vermilion Ohio.…
Joel Whitaker is an artist and educator living in Dayton, Ohio. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Art in Art from the University of Montevallo, Montevallo, Alabama and a Master of Fine Art in Studio Art from Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. He has remained active in photography through his teaching, ongoing study of the medium, development of photographic projects, and the pursuit of exhibition outlets.…
Education
University of the Arts London, Camberwell College of Arts -foundation
Northumbria University – BA (Hons) fine Art
Selected exhibitions
The Affordable Art Fair London
The London Hilton, Park Lane. London
Sosho, Shoredtich. London
The London Art Fair, Chelsea
The Affordable Art Fair Bristol
The Affordable Art Fair NYC
Selected Media Features
Financial Times The Economist Art World News
Evening Standard Homes and Gardens Radio 4
Harpers and Queen The Western Post The Independent
Iris wishes to remain anonymous so no dates have been given.…
Jennifer Whitten is a Cleveland based artist who uses assemblage and fiber art techniques. Her work has always focused on the intricate.
Claire Elyce Wiedman is a teaching artist located in Columbus, OH. They currently teach photography as an adjunct faculty for CCAD and OSU Newark while working on an ongoing self-portrait project.
Jan Wiesner
Sculptor
Jan Wiesner, a sculptor, grew up in Paradise, Texas. She is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, DAAP where she received her BFA. She served as an Art Teacher for the King & Low-Heywood Thomas School in Stanford, Connecticut as well as teaching at the Seven Hills School here in Cincinnati. She completed her teaching career at The Summit Country Day School where she was the recipient of the school’s Schilderink Family Chair Award for Outstanding Teaching Award in 2013 and in 2015 she received the State Elementary School Art Teacher of the Year Award from the Ohio Art Education Association. She was also an adjunct professor of Art Education at Xavier University.
Jan shares a studio at the Pendleton Art Center with her husband Mark, who is also a sculptor. She is represented by Caza Sikes Gallery, Cincinnati.
Mark Wiesner
Sculptor
Mark Wiesner, a sculptor, is a native Cincinnatian. He is a graduate of Edgecliff College in Cincinnati where he received his BA with a concentration in Art and he went on to receive a Masters from the Athenaeum of Ohio in Religious Studies. Mark shares a studio at the Pendleton Art Center with his wife Jan, who is also a sculptor. He is represented by Caza Sikes Gallery, Cincinnati, Gallery 708, Cincinnati and by Singulart, an international online gallery based in Paris, France.
I am a retired nurse with a small photography business in Columbus, Ohio.
Tony Williams
Fiber Artist
Cleveland-based artist Tony Williams has been displayed at countless local and national juried exhibitions. His most recent works include “Artist in Residency Exhibition” Morgan Conservatory Cleveland Oh, “Paper on Skin and Paper off Skin 2022,” exhibit Tasmania, Schweinfurth Art Center “Excellence in Fiber”, “15th Annual African American Fiber Arts Exhibit” Charleston, SC, “OAC Biennial Juried Exhibition” 2021 Riffe Gallery Columbus, Oh “OAC Biennial Juried Exhibition” 2021, Medici Museum of Art, Warren Oh and “Black Creativity,” Chicago, IL, “Sankofa” at the 14th Annual African American Fiber Arts Exhibit in Charleston, SC, and “About Body, About Face,” Cleveland Oh, and “Contemporary Fibers”, National Juried Textile Exhibition in St. Augustine Historical Society St Augustine, FL, “Paper on Skin” 2018, exhibit Tasmania, Australia, “A Dialogue in Black and White”, exhibit Charleston, SC.
Among the public art projects are The Anson Street African Burial Ground Project with the Gullah Society of Charleston, SC, the Year of the Horse and Sheep sculptures in Asia Town Cleveland, Oh, and Waterways to Waterways. A former artist-in-residence 2021 at the Morgan Conservatory, working with indigo on paper, and Karamu House-Room in the House resident 2020.
roscoe wilson
Professor of Art
Roscoe Wilson was born and raised the United States, in northern Indiana and southern Michigan. His environmental values were shaped in this mostly rural Mid-western setting. Growing up in this region enabled Roscoe to experience nature and discover an awareness that only a forest, lake, and field can offer.
Donna Winters is an award winning photographer living in Dublin, Ohio. She has been honing her powers of observation through the lens of the camera for many years. Her goal is not to simply document a subject or event nor is it to strive for technical perfection, but to spark the imagination of the viewer. She has received numerous awards in various juried competitions and continues to explore subjects that spark the imagination of the viewer. Her photos are prepared for the final prints that include both color and black and white images which have been included in various juried exhibits.
Emily Wiser lives in Hudson, Ohio and has been making jewelry for twenty years. She has a Jewelry Technician and a Graduate Jeweler’s certificate from Revere Jewelry Academy in San Francisco, and a Diamonds Certificate from the GIA. She works in all metals, from sterling silver to platinum. She is interested in metal properties and textures, and is attracted to serenity in forms.…
Born in 1983, in Poznań, Poland, where he later then studied philosophy at Adam Mickiewicz University.
In 2010 he started a career as a tattoo artist, and in 2015 started the brand ISa ta2 and has been working under this name since.
After spending several years traveling around Europe, he came to the USA and now lives in Columbus, Ohio.…