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.
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.…
Anna Sokol
Artist
I begin each piece with joy, using textures and hidden messages, letting color and composition emerge.
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 Sowders is a Northwest Ohio landscape artist and 1994 graduate of the Columbus College of Art and Design. Since debuting her acrylic landscapes in 2021, her work has earned international recognition, including consecutive Grand Prizes in International Artist magazine’s Landscape Challenges (#141 and #149), a Silver Medal from the Ohio Watercolor Society, and second place in the landscape division of Artists Magazine’s 40th Annual Art Competition.
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.
Dan Sproul
Fine Art Landscape & Nature Photographer
Dan Sproul is a fine art landscape, wildlife, and nature photographer based in Lima, Ohio, with a catalog of 8,500+ images sold in all 50 states and 20+ countries. His work has been installed at Drury Hotels (Findlay and St. Louis) and the Wexner Medical Center at Ohio State University. He partners with healthcare, hospitality, and senior living designers to bring calming nature photography into patient and guest spaces.