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
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.
Allison Hope Smith Hernandez is an artist and non-profit administrator, specializing in advancement, communications, events, and exhibitions.
Smith Hernandez is a double alumnus of Kent State University –holding a BFA and MFA in studio art with a concentration in textiles– where she served as the Graduate Assistant to the Director of the School of Art Collection and Galleries and received a Student Senate Research Grant and Award for her MFA thesis exhibition.
She was honored by the Ohio Museums Association as the 2022 Emerging Professional of the Year and served as Co-Chair of the Equity & Values Committee of the Ennials Alliance from 2023–2024. Smith Hernandez is a former exhibiting artist in the U.S. Department of State Art in Embassies program, 2021–2024.
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.…
Ric Snead
Artist
M.F.A. Sculpture, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 1977
B.S. Art Education, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 1975
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.
Karen Snouffer
Visual artist
Karen Snouffer, a mixed media artist has exhibited at Aqua Miami, Work Space New York, MOCA Cleveland, Weston Gallery Cincinnati, Poor Dog Space, L. A., Columbus Museum of Art; awarded residencies at Fine Arts Work Center and Headlands Center for the Art; received seven OAC Individual Artist grants, a McGregor Foundation Global Exchange Grant. Work is in the Pizzuti Collection, Girls Club Collection, Greater Columbus Convention Center, and Sun Life of Canada.
Fia Soisson
Artist
Fia Soisson is a non-binary artist born and raised in Westerville, Ohio. Most of their works consist of acrylic paintings or digital art in a semi-realistic style. They typically include doodles in their art, whether it’s fine art, digital art, or graphic design. Fia has been drawing these doodles since they were a kid and adding it into their art is like bringing their childhood into each piece they create.…
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.
Soutchay Soungpradith
Artist and Musician
Soutchay was born in Laos in 1978 and arrived in the US in 1981. He is a musician and professional artist that specializes in imaginative realism. Upon graduating from Coshocton High School in 1996, he was awarded a scholarship from the Columbus College of Art & Design where he went on to study illustration. After an abbreviated stay, he ventured off to pursue his love of music. …
John is a mixed-media artist whose long-term focus has been language, photography, and how we perceive and infer meaning. He believes in using style as well as the formal elements of art (line, shape, color, etc.) to explore his long-term interests more thoroughly. John has always been concerned with the formal qualities of art and is constantly pushing the bounds of the materials he uses.
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.
Shandray Spaulding
Owner
Shandray Spaulding, or Shay, is a local illustrator hailing from the heart of Ohio. She was born with a passion for artistic and authentic expression.
Born in 1988, Shay’s artistic journey began early on, as she immersed herself in the world of art and design throughout her primary and secondary education in Ohio.…