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
Misty Thomas-Trout
Assistant Professor
Misty Thomas-Trout is an assistant professor in graphic design at the University of Dayton. She holds a BFA in visual communication design from the University of Dayton and an MFA in graphic design from Ohio University. She was a 2018 Design Incubation Fellow. Her recent graphic design research, Atlas of Dayton: A City in Progress won an Ohio Arts Council’s Individual Excellence Award for FY 2021.…
Zoe Thompson
Assistant Professor
Zoë Brigley (also Zoë Brigley Thompson) is originally from Wales, but has lived in Ohio for 10 years. She is a writer in many genres, an editor, and teacher, and she works as Assistant Professor (0.49) of English at the Ohio State University.
Hi my name is Alex, I am a visual artist from Cincinnati, Ohio. I enjoy painting large scale works, especially portraits. My practice mainly consists of murals and oil paintings on canvas.
Vee is a native of Cleveland, Ohio. She spreads the spirit of community and the power of hope through her writing.
Chris Till
Musical Director
Songwriter Chris Till seamlessly synthesizes the serious, the silly, and the surreal. Why? Because that is how he experiences life.
He is the founder of Toadstool Shadow, a theatrical folk music trio from Chillicothe, Ohio. As Toadstool Shadow’s songwriter and scriptwriter, Till’s weds the wholesome and the weird. This musical marriage mixes Norman Rockwell’s traditionalism and Lewis Carroll’s surrealism.
Rather than bars, Toadstool Shadow plays town festivals and historic theaters. Their music is family-friendly and aims to entertain all ages.
Attended CCAD Columbus Ohio approx. 10 years part time. Started Conservator business 1987. Specialize currently in restoration of antique collectible smalls, mostly bird automatons and Victorian Era toys including mohair toys.
Public display of my bronze sculpture permanent at the Columbus, Ohio Zoo of a goat on fossilized limestone.
Major is sculpture and mixed media conservation.
Sam Toland
Visiting Assistant Professor
Sam Toland is an artist, designer, and educator based in Oxford, OH. His artwork explores 3D printing in both ceramic and plastic mediums, aiming to create novel forms and surfaces that are inherent to the printing process. In developing this work, he uses original coding in Rhino3D and Grasshopper to aid in generating surface texture as well as for producing the instructions for the printing.
Mary Jo Toles
Professor Emerita
Professor Emerita from the Cleveland Institute of Art in Photography and Digital Imaging, Mary Jo Toles has contributed as an arts educator for over three decades. Recognized for her development of experimental processes including high-voltage photographic imagery and eco-friendly green photographic processes, Toles is an inventive contributor to the academic and professional scope of this historical and contemporary field that crosses both arts and science.…
Alsace Toure
Owner
I am Alsace-Lorraine Touré. I am a self-taught artist with twelve years painting experience. My mission is to create art that is thought-provoking, inspiring, and visually stimulating. I try to find meaning in all aspects of life, and love painting with bright, bold colors, especially blue. I enjoy using soft acrylic and fluid paints, resin, and wood. Words used to describe my art are tranquil, bold, and innovative.
Attended Tolles Career and Technical Center, for Art Design and Communications. I work in multiple mediums such as graphite, charcoal, acrylic paint, clay, and digital design.
I am a Cincinnati native. With the exception of my years studying in Chicago, I spent my career as an Art educator in Cincinnati. My teaching experience was diverse and driven by my own love of making Art and sharing my passion of the creative process. It was always important for me to remain active as an artist in the local community by participating in shows as much as I could while teaching.
Retired from teaching, I am now fully immersed in my own work and exhibiting. I have been engaged in Encaustic painting and Coldwax painting for more than 30 years. I am a member of the Encaustic Art Institute of New Mexico.
Judy Trautman
Founding Chair
Judy Lee Trautman has done art since she could hold a crayon. Since 2019, it has been a near daily respite from intensive nonprofit work. Professionally, she was a classroom educator for over 40 years, first as a high school French teacher, and then as a part-time technology mentor. She co-founded the MultiFaith Council of NW Ohio in 2003 with her late husband Woody Trautman.…
Ohio born and raised, Kerry Trautman’s poetry and short fiction have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Her poetry books are Things That Come in Boxes (King Craft Press 2012,) To Have Hoped (Finishing Line Press 2015,) Artifacts (NightBallet Press 2017,) To be Nonchalantly Alive (Kelsay Books 2020,) Marilyn: Self-Portrait, Oil on Canvas (Gutter Snob Books 2022,) and Unknowable Things (Roadside Press 2023.)
Jessica Travis
Artist
I am a wife and mother of two rambunctious boys who inspire and support my creativity. I am a self taught artist but my mom helped nurture and grow my artistry.
I specialize in acrylic pour paintings. Mainly acrylic paint on canvas. Being a black women. My favorite type of paintings are when I create paintings of black women in (my opinion) our strong, supportive and royal roles while also creating works of art to fit all lifestyle.…
Sarah Treanor
Mixed Media Artist
Sarah Treanor is a mixed media artist whose work primarily involves photography, encaustic, and nature-based printmaking. She weaves these and other mediums together with her strong connection to nature and a spirituality rooted in grief. The dance between mediums energizes her, while her intuitive connections to nature lead her forward.
Ann Trondson
Artist, Curator, Co-Director
Ann Trondson is a Toledo, Ohio-based multidisciplinary artist. Each of her rigorously crafted, large scale projects investigate how our seemingly mundane desires can become something to behold, reconsider, complicate, and subvert as it relates to our own personal subjectivity and memory. She has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions including Neon Heater, Findlay, OH (2023), Wiregrass Museum of Art, Dothan, AL (2023), C for Courtside, Knoxville, TN (2019); Salon 94, New York, NY (2014); Louis B.…
Chrissy Trout
Director of Operations
Chrissy Pinelli Trout is originally from Ashtabula, a small town on Lake Erie in northeastern Ohio. She received her B.F.A with a concentration in ceramics from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 2004. She is currently an instructor and Director of Operations at Queen City Clay in Cincinnati, OH, where she lives with her husband and two children. …
Gail Trunick lives and works in the small, rural northeastern Ohio town of Burghill. Gail grew up eight in a family of nine children. Her father died in a steel mill accident and she was raised by her mother who made her living as a potter. Much of her childhood was enjoyably spent going to outdoor art shows, peddling her mother’s smoked stoneware vessels.…
Thomas Trusty
Visual Artist
I’ve been making photographs since the 70’s when I studied photography and printmaking at The Ohio State University. I work almost exclusively with black and white film using a variety of cameras. I do all my own darkroom work producing silver gelatin prints on fiber-based photographic papers. Each print is processed to exacting archival standards, then mounted and matted using museum quality materials.…