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.
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.
As a young child, and into adulthood, I have dabbled at art of some kind. In the eighth grade I sent in a drawing, from a magazine, of a beagle. From that I was accepted into the same school that Norman Rockwell went to, however, my parents could not afford the tuition. I graduated from the University of Dayton with a bachelor’s degree in marketing and a concentration in Art and have continued to dabble in through my professional career.…
Samantha Tripi
Artist
Visual art is my language for expressing experiences words can’t capture, often finding inspiration in the ordinary moments of everyday life. This perspective helps me view the world through an artistic lens and become more of an active creator. My journey as an athlete, particularly rugby, has deeply informed my art as athletic movements themselves are a powerful for of self-expression that mirrors artistic communication. This duality shapes my identity and influences how I convey meaning through my work.
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.
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.…
Mia Turi is an Ohio-born painter working in oils who recently relocated back to her home state after living in Nevada for over 25 years. Those years were critical in her growth as a plein air artist as she painted the dramatic desert expanses, mountains and explored extreme atmospheric perspective. She is now focusing on retooling that experience to paint the geography and geology of Ohio.
Graduated from the Ohio state University in 1980 and 81 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Arts Education degree. I also worked on a Masters of Fine Arts degree at OSU but did not complete the program. Instead I pursued an entrepreneurial effort in the area of adult continuing education. This effort took me to Chicago where I managed the Discovery Center and Roosevelt University’s Computer Learning Centers. I then pursued a career in information technology where I worked for several different companies including CompuServ, Worldcom and Nationwide Insurance. I retired in 2017.
Primarily I am a landscape photographer, though I love including people in my work enjoying the natural world around them, as well as street photography when I am in new or exciting locations. I also enjoy night photography, so I try to find places where light pollution is minimal to better bring out the majesty of the night sky.…
Linda Turvy
Visual artist
Linda Turvy is a Central Ohio artist creating 2D and 3D work using acrylics, mixed media, and found objects. In an attempt to have a minimal impact on the environment in her art practice, she often repurposes paint, paper and objects that may be destined for the landfill. Turvy’s art is sometimes serious and thoughtful but often whimsical or quirky with texture being a common theme.
Timothy Tyree
Professional visual artist
Timothy is a lifelong artist living and working out of Point Place Studio in Toledo, Ohio. He received a Bachelor’s of Art Education degree from Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio. While there, his studio majors included oil painting and drawing from life. He studied under fine art professors Thomas Hilty, Robert Mazur and Ronald Bandy. …
Laura Ulery
Artist
My work explores the intricate dance between urban environments and nature, capturing their evolution through both painting and photography. Using a vibrant palette, dynamic compositions, and blacklight-reactive paints, I create art that tells two stories—one under natural light and another in the dark—highlighting the tension and harmony between human-made structures and the natural world.
My photography complements this vision, capturing art, music, architectural structures, and landscapes with an eye for storytelling and interconnected themes.…
My studio practice typically involves representation of actual observed spaces through analytical and objective questioning. My subjects include figuration, interior scenes, and urban landscapes.
Enjoyed studying with several great watercolor artists; Eric Weingart, Janet Rogers, Richard Stephens, Charles Reid, and Vlad Yeliseyev. My preferred subjects are portraits, wildlife, and historic buildings.
Teri Utz Bersée
Fine Artist
Teri Utz Bersée is passionate about nature (the rural landscape and wildlife specifically) and portraiture of humans and animals. She works primarily in oils, soft pastels and charcoal, and has won many awards over the years on local, regional and national levels.
Teri donates time, artwork and help for many art and charitable organizations, continues to teach classes, paint plein air and learn more.