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.
Christina Brandewie
Designer/Art Jeweler
I offer you sophisticated,
sensuous and skillfully wrought,
wearable art jewelry.
Vivid color gemstones are the design inspiration,
I fabricate precious metal into jewelry,
with a strong curvilinear design,
creating with full experience and immersion
in every step of the jewelry making process.
Additionally, I create other objet- d- art,
in my architecturally inspired Fabric “Bracelet Series”,
and my “Swimsuit Pin” Series of kinetic woman’s torso in bathing suits.
https//:cabbochonjewelry.com
MKBRANDT ART & DESIGN – ARTIST BIO & Statement:
Michelle K. Brandt moved to Dayton from Phoenix AZ in 1977. After raising a family & working in electrical supply and plumbing, she retired in 2022. Now with time, she concentrated on her artwork. Michelle loves the bright colors you will find in her garden and it reflects in her artwork.
Working primarily in Acrylics and watercolors, on canvas & boards, she paints landscapes, cityscapes, botanicals, and pets, in a somewhat loose impressionistic style. With bold bright colors, and lots of layers, her paintings come alive with that energy.
With mentors and teachers, the late Cinnamon Cooney, and Ginger Cook, Michelle has learned not to be afraid to take a chance and try a new technique or medium.
She has resided in the Belmont neighborhood in Dayton OH for 40+ years.
A member of the Dayton Society of Artists, and The Tipp City Area Arts Council, she has exhibited and sold paintings in a variety of exhibitions.
Davon Brantley
Artist
Davon Brantley an artist based in Cleveland Ohio, shapes his body of work reflecting on personal narratives and experiences. Using an amalgam of materials, he heightens meaning erratically in textured portraits that convey heightened emotional states. Childhood trauma and experiences through life, are a motif through his body of work. Thus allowing him to tackle multiple issues through development into adult life/maturity.
Sarah Brashears
Artist, art teacher
I have this uncomfortable obsession with the hidden unknown past of everyday objects. My closest childhood friend had difficulty spending time at my house because of my parents’ antiques collection. She didn’t like the idea that the objects in my home had belonged to, lived with, died with, other people. I, on the other hand, am fascinated with that idea.…
Rick is a decades-long veteran landscape photographer specializing in capturing the beauty of our public lands and in working with organizations that conserve, protect and restore those lands. As a lifelong outdoorist and 14 time artist-in-residence for the National Park Service he’s spent years living alone and photographing in over 120 of America’s parks and forests.…
Barbara Breen graduated from the Ohio Institute of Photography in 1982 with a degree in Biomedical and Fine Arts Photography. In addition, studied with renowned photographers Howard Bond (Zone System Workshop), Bruce Barnbaum (Photographic Arts Workshop with Large Format Cameras), and Ansel Adams (Workshop with John Sexton and Morely Baer).
Barbara has exhibited her photographic works locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally including exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, Ohio), Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art (Cleveland, Ohio), Firelands Association for the Visual Arts (Oberlin, Ohio), the Clara M.…
Cecilia Brendel
Artist
Born in St Louis Missouri in 1962, Cecilia Brendel’s initial art education was in Technical illustration and Graphic Arts. Illustrating for companies such as University of Notre Dame, Florida Institute of Technology, Harley Davidson, Holiday Rambler. Her early illustrating career lead her into working for Publishers such as MacGraw-Hill Publishing, GMA Publishing and American Book Publishers, designing book covers, illustrating children’s books and illustrating technical articles and other publications. …
jane brenneman
teacher
I have been an artist for several years, This includes dancing since age 5 to the present in the areas of tap, jazz, tumbling, trampoline, ballet, adagio. Present I dance with adult tp class called off broadway studio. I have taught in various area studios over the years and coached gymnastic teams, even becoming a gymnastic judge. …
Karen Brenner
Painter
Karen Brenner has been specializing in realistic, oil paintings of horses for over 20 years. Using many layers of translucent colors, paintings evolve slowly with a luminous quality. She has traveled extensively, photographing hundreds of horses for reference for paintings.
Tracy has known her husband since she was 12 years old and they were in art class together in high school.
Holly Brians Ragusa
Current President for OPA- Poet/Writer/Speaker/Activist
Holly Brians Ragusa (she/her) is an interdisciplinary writer, activist and author of Met the End, Dying to Know Myself In Time, and poetry collections, Inverse and Tilt a World. Serving as President for the Ohio Poetry Association, HBR also serves a range of nonprofits and literary endeavors, and is entrenched in the community. Hollybriansragusa.com
Jacklyn Brickman (she/her) is a visual artist whose work entangles science fact with fiction to address social and environmental concerns by employing natural objects, processes, and technology. Her work spans installation, video, and performance, with a special interest in cross-disciplinary collaboration and social engagement.
Karen Bridges
Singer/Songwriter
Twice-named “best of” in the NPR Tiny Desk Contest, Cincinnati-based songwriters Karen Bridges and Clint Thomson are the heart of a genre-bending Americana band with close harmonies, thoughtful lyrics, and a name that invokes mighty mountain landscapes– Stone & Snow.
Carol Bridwell
Artisan – Weaving & Woodcraft
Carol Bridwell has been interested in the fiber and textile mediums since first crocheting with her Grandmother at the age of 6. 40 years ago she got her first loom and taught herself the techniques you see today in her woven works. Carol worked at this as a hobby while working full time, and upon retiring from AK Steel began selling her art as Phoenix Rising, later to be Carol Bridwell Art. …
Jules Briggs
Artist
Julia (Jules) Briggs is a Cleveland, Ohio based artist with a studio in Lakewood’s Screw Factory. She holds an MA in Philosophy & The Arts from University of Warwick, England and a BA in Studio Art from DePauw University, Indiana.
Jules is open for portrait and mural commissions.
Cheri who holds 3 degrees from two major universities and certificates from two international universities and has served on college faculties for over 25 + years. She has been a speaker and local historian in SW Ohio for more than this . Currently she is the author of the Cincinnati and Soup book series of which there are 5 books with over 14,000 copies sold and still selling.…
Leigh Brooklyn was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio where she earned a B.F.A. in Biomedical Illustration. Later Brooklyn moved throughout the USA pursuing portrait street photography eventually returning to her roots of figurative drawing, painting and sculpture, obtaining her welding certification for sculptural use. Brooklyn’s work has been internationally displayed and awarded.
William Brouillard
Professor Emeritus
William Brouillard
Nationality: American, born in Madison Wisconsin
Education: BA, State University of Wisconsin, Stout, at Menomonie, WI.
Post Baccalaureate studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI.
M.F.A., Ceramic Art, SUNY, at Alfred, NY,
Professional Practice:
Studio Potter, Brouillard Studios, Cleveland, OH
Resident Craftsman at Penland School, Penland, NC, 1976-1978
Teaching
Professor of Art, Ceramics, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, From 1980
I began my work in clay, studying with John Perri at the State University of Wisconsin, at Menomonie, Wisconsin.…
Hiedi Brown
Artist
Hiedi Brown is an aspiring artist that utilizes several mediums to create concept art. She is a second generation artist that has been practicing multiple art forms most of her life. She studied at Metro State University in Colorado with a major in graphic design. Although born with dystonia; she is a free spirited artist who doesn’t let her disability hold her back.…
My current artistic practice is focused on printmaking and ceramics. I am a member artist at Studios on High Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, where I exhibit in both mediums. In the printmaking realm, I am most drawn to dry point etchings on acrylic and enjoy combining them with other techniques. I also create photopolymer gravure prints using light-sensitive metal plates (developed in plain water) and my own photographs and original drawings and combining these prints with graphite and charcoal. I am also a printmaking instructor at the Columbus Cultural Arts Center. The instructors and students all use non-toxic methods and materials for printmaking, and we are all conscious of reusing supplies and conserving our materials to the greatest extent possible. I ink and print all of my images by hand in small editions.