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.
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.…
Lauren Spavelko
Composer
Lauren Spavelko (b. 1989) is a composer, studio teacher, performer, and visual artist in Columbus, Ohio. She has been commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Johnstone Fund for New Music, & the Central Ohio Symphony. She has received national & international recognition for her art songs, orchestral work, and educational music. She is a winner of the Spoleto Festival’s Young Composers Prize (Italy) and the American Prize in Vocal Music, as well as a NATS Art Song Composition Award and American Prize in Orchestral Music national finalist.
Teresa Speakman
Ceramist
My experience of creating pottery is a combination of experimentation and practice and formal education at Ohio University. I enjoy both wheel-throwing and hand-building methods, and although most of my pottery is functional, I am becoming interested in larger abstract scupltural forms. Find my pottery at Mud Gallery Ceramics & Fine Art in Lancaster, Ohio
Kate Spencer
owner
Having settled in Cincinnati 25 years ago after a lifetime of moving around the US from border to border and coast to coast, Kate is a retired college professor of English who has taken up a second career as a quilter, making miniature patchwork quilts for wall hangings and table runners. I have been inspired by the example of my maternal grandmother, Georgia, who also took up quilting in later life and who designed many of her own quilts, and by her mother, Pearle, who created many beautiful works in a variety of textile crafts-quilting, sewing, embroidery, crocheting, and lace-making.
Brenden Spivey is an abstract artist known for his captivating and dynamic works that explore the intersection of color, texture, and shape. Born and raised in Newark, Ohio Spivey developed a deep appreciation for art later in life, inspired by the diverse and thriving art scene in Columbus. Spivey’s work is characterized by its bold, expressive use of color and its intricate, layered textures and shapes. Drawing inspiration from a wide range of sources, including nature, music, his travels and mid-century modern design, Spivey creates works that are at once vibrant and nuanced, evocative and elusive. Over the course of his short career, Spivey has gained recognition for his distinctive approach to abstract art, which blends elements of the traditional with the contemporary. His works have been exhibited in many prestigious venues, galleries, and corporate collections domestically and internationally. In addition to his artistic pursuits, Spivey is also an active member of his community, donating his art and resources to support a variety of social and cultural causes. He is committed to using his art to promote greater understanding and empathy among people of all backgrounds, and to create a more just and equitable world.
In my previous life, I was a suit and tie audit supervisor with the Auditor of State of Ohio, having received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree with a major in accounting from The Ohio State University in 1987. What little writing ability I possess was developed writing audit reports to be released to the public by the state of Ohio upon completion of each audit. …
Connie Springer
Artist
Connie Springer is a watercolor artist with a penchant for storytelling. She is also a photographer, and in both media, painting and photography, she demonstrates a keen visual sense and a strong interest in people. Her style has been described as evocative and interpretive.
Anne Spurgeon is an interdisciplinary artist working between Columbus, Ohio and Brooklyn, New York. Questions about transformation reoccur in Spurgeon’s creative practice. Her involvement began through performance, from playing guitar on stage, to creating private video performances about identity and the sense of the public and private self. In the past few years her focus has moved away from the personal consciousness of the body, to the transformation of sculptural and drawing materials.
My new book is These Americans, a collection of short stories and a novella published by Minerva Rising Press. The novella in this collection, “Hawk,” was a finalist for the PEN/Bellwether Prize.
My novel And Laughter Fell From the Sky was published in 2012 by HarperCollins.
My short stories have been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies.…
Teresa St. George is a Cleveland-based writer and poet whose work explores memory, mythology, and the quiet emotional forces that shape human lives. She holds a Master of Humanities in Creative Writing from Tiffin University and a BFA in Theatrical Design and Technology from Kent State University. Her creative work blends literary fiction, poetry, and mythological retelling, drawing inspiration from folklore, personal history, and the landscapes of the American Midwest.…
Christopher has work in the permanent collections of both the Museum of the North in Fairbanks, Alaska, and the Hawaii State Art Museum. He is always at home in a forest.
Kelly Stamblesky was born in Northeast Ohio. As a child she developed a keen interest in the natural world, exploring both flora and fauna in the field and woods near her childhood home. Having an affinity for animals, she’d often bring home injured birds for her mother to “fix.” As a child, drawing was a way for Kelly to communicate.…
The Process of an Alternate Reality. Shifting the dimensionality of a photograph takes that venerated tradition to a new art space in this case through the experimental use of inkjet printing where the applied photo ink is kept wet. This process allows the use of new and traditional tools to work with the wet ink/pigment extending even into the dried state, as in this case.The process’s evolution can result in more than one finished or fixed image which is captured by photocopying the unstable print as a desired effect momentarily passes. The possibilities are impacted by the content and style of the original image, including individual ink volumes, humidity, gravitational orientation, and use of various tools by hand.The human created image has always possessed a value in our culture as part of a system of recognition and record keeping for us, as cognitive beings. These images have become my smokey,, cognitive hand,, memorialized on the cave wall.
Kate studied art at Otterbein College, concentrating in drawing and printmaking. Since those early days her art has varied and explored areas of photography, illustration, design work, and more recently come back around to drawing, painting, and printmaking.
She lives and creates in NE Ohio but her art seeks to capture worlds apart from reality and merge fantasy and imagination into that which we know.
Brooke Stanley
Artist / Designer
Brooke Stanley is an artist and designer based in Columbus, Ohio. With a background in fine art and digital media, her work explores identity, emotional experience, and human connection. She holds a BFA in Art & Technology from The Ohio State University and an MA in Visual Communication from Ohio University. Her current work includes mirror-based acrylic paintings and website design for small businesses.
I love color. Color makes me happy. I love its ability to communicate emotion and mood. To transport people. How a dab of blue here or a smudge of yellow over there can suddenly give a painting life.
There is no agenda when I paint. Inspiration comes from a feeling or emotion that I try to convey on the of a canvas or paper. I want to see what happens when paint dribbles down the surface or when two colors come together and mix. I like to layer colors and play with space, I try to let the painting be what it wants to be.
I paint intuitively and adapt to the painting as it shifts and changes. I stay as flexible and as open as possible so that the painting can have its own life. I try not to interfere too much, because whenI do, the painting becomes overworked and unloved. Then I have to start over again.
I am drawn to more organic shapes when I paint-no straight or true lines just letting the paint and shapes flow from whatever mood or mode I am in at the time. I like art to say something to the viewer about the artist and maybe a little bit about themselves.
Hey, I’m Jay! I’m a traditional/digital artist. At the moment I mostly make abstract self portraits. If you like any of my art please don’t be afraid to reach out!
Tylur Starks
Vocalist
Tylur Starks is from Columbus, OH. Growing up Tylur loved listening to Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Patti Labelle, Janis Joplin and other, which reflects in her writing and vocal style. Listening to Etta James and other greats, one would say she is an old soul. Tylur has been singing her whole life and being a 90’s baby she loved Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, and all the greats of that time.…
Craig Staufer grew up on a farm in Medina County and currently lives in a restored 1834 Western Reserve home near Lodi, Ohio. Art has been a pursuit of Craig’s his entire life. He studied at Kent State and the University of Akron as well as expanding his skills with many other artists over the years.…
Mary Beth Stauffer received an MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Pennsylvania (1995). She began her teaching career at the University of Pennsylvania as Lecturer, co-teaching drawing classes for architecture students. Recent teaching experience includes teaching at the University of Akron, the University of Mount Union, and Ashland University, with over 20 years as a Life Drawing instructor at the University of Akron (as Senior Lecturer).…