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
Sebastian Birch
Associate Professor of Music
Sebastian Birch (DMA Cleveland Institute of Music) teaches theory and compositions at Kent State Stark. His compositions have been performed at numerous festivals, and conferences including the Bowling Green New Music Festival. Detectio Sonoris was recently performed by flautist Mary Kay Fink and pianist Nicholas Underhill.
Michelle is a Columbus-based artist from Cincinnati, Ohio. She has loved art ever since she was a kid drawing on the bottom of the kitchen table. After obtaining her BA in Graphic Design, Michelle lived in China as an EFL teacher for five years, then went on to complete her Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from Lesley University. She continues to work as both an artists and graphic designer, and loves the sense of connection and belonging that art offers.
Botanicals and natural elements often have a place in my work. I find joy and excitement in experimenting with color and compositions. But what I really love is mixing mediums in unexpected ways.
Alice Blumenfeld
Artistic & Executive Director, Teaching Artist, Choreographer
Alice Blumenfeld is the founder and artistic director of ABREPASO flamenco. Recognitions include an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for Choreography (FY20), a YoungArts Silver winner, and a U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts.
Alla Boara
Modern Italian Folk Music
Alla Boara seeks to bring recognition and new life to Italy’s diverse history of regional folk music. With modern arrangements variously surprising, playful, mournful, tender, and bewitching, Alla Boara’s dynamic songs move contemporary audiences of all ethnic heritages to treasure their musical roots and consider historical songs’ contemporary cultural relevance.
Edmund Boateng
Film Maker / Photographer
I’m a self taught photographer and film maker from Ghana, currently living in Columbus, Ohio, United States. Since moving to Columbus in 2017 I started pursuing my art and have had three pieces of artwork, two photos and one drawing displayed as murals in the Short North Arts District in downtown Columbus as well as multiple gallery solo shows and group shows.
Hi, I’m Molly! Helping the helpless is my passion and my dream is to use my skills daily to serve others while making a positive impact on my local community. As a hybrid designer, I operate in all four design disciplines: print, digital, web, and photography, along with marketing guidance and social management.
I’m a Wilmington native, and I own and operate Molly Boatman Dot Com – an art & design business. On the ‘design side’ of my business, I offer a wide variety of graphic design and marketing services such as – advertising campaigns, branding packages, content distribution plans, photography & digital editing, marketing strategies, platform management, print & digital design, public relations, website creation & management, digital illustration, and more… Basically, no matter what you’re looking for, I’m the girl to call!
The better-known ‘art side’ of my business is mainly comprised of my photocards (mailable 5×7 blank notecards with a photograph cover) but also consists of a variety of fine art, a line of illustrated children’s posters, a selection of larger photography prints, and stained glass sun catchers.
Vicki Boatright
Artist/Owner
Artist Vicki Boatright, known as “BZTAT” (pronounced bee-zee-tat), is the preeminent pet portrait artist for the Contemporary Pet Lover. Animal loving art collectors worldwide have commissioned artworks by BZTAT to celebrate their relationships with their beloved pets. Vicki also creates murals and other artworks that address a variety of themes.
Misty Bolenbaugh
Artist
Misty is an accomplished painter, working with acrylics, oils, and multimedia. Her work has been showcased in local galleries in the Findlay Area.
Misty also creates custom journals and planners, custom tea, essential oil blends, and fiber arts.
Michele BonDurant is a painter/mixed media artist based in Dayton, Ohio receiving a BFA from Wright State University. BonDurant finds and frames the everyday in her observational landscapes and cut paper paintings. Her spare, calculated style reflects both contentment in the ordinary, and an interest in heightened drama through the use of pattern and shadow.…
Kelley Booze studied the Columbus College of Art and Design, graduating magna cum laude with a B.F.A. in Fine Art in 2009. In addition to exhibiting and maintaining a studio practice, she has taught various classes and workshops both independently and with several institutions. Her artwork has exhibited and is part of public and private collections nationally and internationally. Most recently, Kelley has been awarded the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence award for 2021, been published in a national arts publication, and has partnered with organizations on public art projects.
Adetokunbo Knowles Borishade, Ph.D. holds an earned doctorate degree in Africana Studies with a minor in cultural Anthropology. She is a semi-retired professor who creates vivid themes from her knowledge in African history and culture. This multi-talented educator’s work always contains strong spiritual elements, as expressed in her publications, lectures, poems, stage plays, and recent film script.…
I received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Education from the University of Nebraska a Master of Fine Art in Painting and Drawing from The Ohio State University. Since 1980, I’ve enjoyed a career as an arts administrator, primarily for the Columbus Museum of Art, where I served as the Executive Deputy Director of Operations and Chief Registrar. I’ve kept a studio practice and exhibited throughout the United States.
Born in 1981 in Algeria, Ousama is originally from Aures. His Berber identity was the first source of inspiration for his works. During his contact with the artists of his city and with the students of Fine Arts School of Batna, Ousama started to find and build his personal artistic and his philosophy.
He was influenced by the Masters of the Art of the European renaissance such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Paul Rubens.…
Jim Bowling
Professor
Jim Bowling is a sculptor living and working in Columbus, Ohio. Focusing on contemporary expressions of the male form, he primarily works in clay but frequently incorporates found objects into his work. He received a BS from The Ohio State University where he also pursued post-baccalaureate studies in ceramics. He received an MFA in ceramics from Kent State University.
Terry Boyarsky
Chamber Music, Dalcroze Eurhythmics, Ethnomusicology, Arts Integration
Terry Boyarsky is a concert pianist, chamber musician, Dalcroze Eurhythmics teacher and ethnomusicologist. She trained with the Kennedy Center in Arts Integration and is a Teaching Artist for the Ohio Arts Council. She teaches Russian Vocal Music for CWRU. She sings with the Cleveland Orchestra Blossom Festival Chorus and Choral Arts Cleveland. Since 2007, Terry has been performing and teaching internationally as “Russian Duo” with Siberian balalaika virtuoso Oleg Kruglyakov.
Creating works of art has been a hobby and a focus of study for years. As a girl, I was fascinated with sketching portraits and animals. However, during my attendance in college,
I acquired a liking for painting and sculpting. Painting abstract and surrealist works of art in multi-mediums is my preference presently.…
Darden Bradshaw is Associate Professor of Art Education and Area Coordinator for Art Education at the University of Dayton. Holding both a Ph.D. in Art History and Education and an M.F.A. in Fiber Art from the University of Arizona, Tucson, Bradshaw works primarily with the historically rich and labor-intensive processes of wet and needle-felting, quilting, and weaving. She celebrates and draws attention to the often overlooked or unacknowledged.
Trish reaches out in her local community and shares her techniques of art with neighborhood kids,
family youths and assists in arts and crafts with those who show a keen interest in the arts.