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.
Josette Theiss
Professional Wildlife Photographer
Professional wildlife and landscape photographer multi-published and awarded internationally. Based in Northeast, Ohio.
Caleb Thomas
Owner and Artist
I’m Caleb Thomas, the artist behind Caleb Thomas Art LLC, specializing in live wedding paintings, live guest portraits, and custom oil paintings on canvas. I was raised in Dayton, Ohio, and now call Columbus, Ohio home — though my work takes me all across Ohio and beyond to paint at live events.
Demetrius Thomas
Hip-Hop Artist
The man known to the world as “Nova The Rebel” from the big stages to the classrooms, has become a powerfully positive force of knowledge and learning to his communities and beyond.
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.
Dr. Thomie Timmons is an artist and educator whose watercolor practice explores perception and shared experience. Following a distinguished 35-year career in educational leadership, Thomie returned to the studio to create non-orientational cloudscapes. Inspired by childhood memories, his meditative work utilizes the fluidity of watercolor to invite viewer participation. These cloudscapes challenge us to slow down, fostering a collaborative “we” moment through the patient act of observation.
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.
Angel Tripoulas is a mixed-media artist based in Ohio whose work explores memory, emotional inheritance, and transformation. Through intuitive, process-driven painting and assemblage, figures and symbols emerge and erode, guided by gesture and material resistance. Drawing from ancestral roots in Scotland, Ireland, and England, her practice centers on witnessing rather than resolution, honoring what persists beneath silence and time.