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
Quentin Sledge
Dancer, choreographer, writer, painter, teacher, reiki master
Quentin ApolloVaughn Sledge attended Morehouse College from 2010-2014 and earned a BA in management. He joined the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company in 2014 and has worked with a multitude of icons including Mr. Donald McKayle, Francesca Harper, Donald Byrd, Ray Mercer, Ron K. Brown and many more. He has taught and performed all over he world in theaters such as the Joyce, Lincoln Center, and Bolshoi and in 2016, he was a soloist in the Bessie awarded revival of Donald McKayle’s “Rainbow ‘Round My Shoulder” . Quentin is a certified teacher off the Lester Horton, Talawa contemporary African, and the Umfundalai dance techniques
Originally from Charleston, West Virginia, Gaynelle Sloman is an award-winning artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and writer. Her unique acrylic and mixed media work is primarily abstract impressionistic, but she is also expressionistic in style. She also sometimes works in colored pencils and pastels, using a more illustrative style.
She studied art at West Virginia University and the Columbus College of Art & Design, holding BA degrees in both art and psychology from UC.…
Megan Smallwood
Artist
After successfully catching them all, Meg Smallwood left her secluded forest home to explore the rest of Ohio. She found it lacking in fantastic, bright, colorful things, and thus took on the quest to bring color to as many surfaces as she could. Joined in her quest is her partner Dan and together they spawned two somewhat helpful offspring. …
I have been interested in photography for as long as I can remember. When I was a child of 8, my family emigrated from Germany at the beginning of WWII. We had to leave everything behind, and during all of my childhood, I wished I could see baby pictures of myself as well as pictures of my family.…
Jeffrey Smith
Landscape Photographer
I grew up in Dayton, flew with the USAF and retired to Dayton where I pursue landscape photography. I chase sunsets/twilights. I also create images using Evidence-based design (EBD) principles. EBD is an approach where researchers realized that people feel relaxed, heal faster, and become more productive when surrounded by certain calming images of nature. I hope these vibrant prints bring you a few moments of peace and solitude.
Kelsey Anilee Smith stitches her way through the wildflowers that live where she lives. A love of history that inspires her use of vintage pieces and traditional sewing methods in unusual ways. She uses techniques like sashiko, embroidery, and needle-turn applique to create tapestries that incorporate varies beautiful textiles both old and new to bring a new perspective on plants native to the midwest and northeast.
Klaire Smith was born in the hills of Southern Ohio and raised in Portsmouth, Ohio; the region having always been a point of inspiration. She was certified as a Professional Printer at the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico studying lithography and was trained professionally as a collaborator. Klaire’s current work utilizes woodblock printing, toucheing on regionalism, Appalachia, and all its complexities.
Madelaine is a ceramicist and painter finishing her BA in Studio Art at Cedarville University. She will graduate in the spring of 2024 with additional minors in History and Biblical Studies. Madelaine works as a Gallery Assistant and Barista at Cedarville University, even helping to redesign the logo of the campus coffee shop in 2023.…
Rachel Suzanne Smith is an artist, metalsmith, and educator. She is currently working as the Fabrication Lab Supervisor at Oberlin College. She received her undergraduate degree at Miami University in Art Education with minors in 3D Media Studies (jewelry/metals) and Spanish. She received her MFA in Crafts (Jewelry Metals Enameling) at Kent State University. Smith maintains a solo studio practice as well as one in collaboration with Jennifer Ramirez.
Erin Smith Glenn
Professor + Entrepreneur
Erin Morgan Smith Glenn is an associate professor of art, former VP of the board for the Dayton Society of Artists, and alum of Central State University. She holds an M.F.A. from the University of Cincinnati, respectfully. Erin has had her work shown in various regional, national and international exhibitions in Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Louisiana, Vermont, Texas, Virginia and Illinois, including numerous solo exhibitions and is also the creator and faculty lead for CSU’s Fine Arts Study Abroad program (Italy, 2022; Paris, 2024).
Among Erin’s lifelong pursuits is to continually practice her overall creative experiences, vowing never to stop “growing as an artist and individual”, while always striving to instill this concept in her students, mentees and her three children, as she does within herself.
When not participating as an educator or practitioner, TheScarvinArtist LLC occupies much of her entrepreneurial time, as she accepts painting and drawing commissions, and creates unique crocheted and other artisanal designs and mixed media projects. Etsy, IG and FB have been her main platform for showcasing her business exploits.
I grew up in Cleveland Heights, Ohio and moved to Columbus to attend the
Columbus College of Art and Design where I earned my BFA in 1987. I earned my MFA in Printmaking
From Washington University in St. Louis in 1990. I returned to Columbus and have worked as a Graphic Artist
here ever since.…
Susan Snipes is a mixed media painter. She creates richly textured paintings about personal transformation using abstract organic forms. Susan’s paintings have won multiple awards and have been exhibited nationally. Her art is in private collections across the United States. Susan received a B.A. in Art History from Case Western Reserve University. She was born in Toledo, Ohio and lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
Fia Soisson
Artist
Fia Soisson is a senior majoring in graphic design at the Columbus College of Art & Design in Ohio. They will be graduating with a BFA in the spring of 2024. While Fia is majoring in graphic design, they enjoy experimenting with other mediums and styles of art outside of their major. Most of their works consist of acrylic paintings or digital art and they often include doodles as part of their artwork.…
Kelly Sollinger
Artist
Kelly Sollinger is a native of the Gulf Coast of Texas and a transplant to central Ohio.
As a child she would spend hours cloud watching in the fields or staring at the fish in the family pond. Back then, she drew and painted and wrote poetry but, like many, went on to something “safe” and “acceptable”: a career programming computers.…
Jeannette Sorrell
Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra
Named for the classical god of music, healing and the sun, Apollo’s Fire is a GRAMMY®-winning ensemble. The period-instrument orchestra was founded by award-winning harpsichordist and conductor Jeannette Sorrell, and is dedicated to the baroque ideal that music should evoke the various Affekts or passions in the listeners. Apollo’s Fire is a collection of creative artists who share Sorrell’s passion for drama and rhetoric.…
Benjamin Sostrom
Artist
Ben Sostrom is a woodworker and mixed-media sculptor based in Columbus, Ohio. His work focuses on blending his scientific background with the dramatic forms of the natural world. He is a graduate of The Ohio State University’s Departments of Theatre and Astronomy. His sculptural work was the subject of the shows “beingnonbeing” (2019), “These Are Not For You” (2021), and “Warehoused” (2023) at Studios on High Gallery.
Harmonic Soul Band is an eclectic soul band that has quickly become one of the fastest rising bands in the city of Columbus. Combining a mixture of R&B, hip hop, soul and funk, Harmonic Soul is known for curating a high vibrational atmosphere through music and showmanship. Their overall intent is to provide an uplifting and interactive experience with the audience.
I am a graduate of The American Academy of Art in Chicago, Illinois and have been combining my commercial art experience with traditional fine art to create popular modern compositions.
Much of my artwork depicts natural environments with an assortment of animal, bird and aquatic life portraits.…
Jennifer Sowders
Sowders
Jennifer is a nationally-winning, Northwest Ohio painter. She specializes in watercolor landscapes on Yupo or acrylic. She is a Signature member of the Ohio Watercolor and an Associate of the American and National Watercolor Societies; on the board of the Fostoria Area Arts Council, a member of the Ohio Art League as well as many local arts organizations. Jennifer is a 1994 BFA graduate from the Columbus College of Art and Design.