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.

2024 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition

Artist by Last Name
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z
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Cee has always been interested in the meaning of Existence and the interconnectedness of all things. Cee has been a farmer, Hospice  spiritual caregiver, and written two books about Consciousness. She has produced hundreds of paintings and sculptures and is currently creating etherial room installations. She received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, an MFA from Mills College in Oakland and was granted the Jay Defeo award.

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Cleveland Celtic Ensemble

Ethereal sounds of the Celtic World in a chamber music ensemble setting.

Born of a desire to marry the best of both Celtic and chamber music in exciting and creative ways, the Cleveland Celtic Ensemble blends Scottish and Irish bagpipes, whistle, flute, fiddle, harp, and dance to create a Celtic style all their own.

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Janet Century has been a successful editorial, documentary; portrait, corporate and fine art photographer who, for more than 40 years, has helped clients tell their stories. Her driving motivation is to communicate through images about humanity and social situations, combining her interest in sociology and photography. The work demonstrates her ability to interact with people and recognize poignant moments that speak volumes

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Darnell Chambers

Individual Artist

Darnell Chambers was born in San Diego, CA and currently lives and works in Akron, Oh. Through his work he aims to raise awareness of the global injustices to people of color, and to protect and preserve the cultures of people of color. Chambers studied Media Arts and Animation at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and has helped create community art spaces and collectives throughout the city.…

Photo of Carmen Eily Chao

Hello! I am a student at Ohio University and I am studying Graphic Design and furthering my studies with the Cello!

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Padma Chebrolu

Artistic Director

Padma Chebrolu is an accomplished teaching and performing dance artist and is the artistic director of the Cultural Centre of India (CCI) which she founded about 30 years ago in Cincinnati. Her exemplary artistic abilities, leadership and creativity have created tremendous impact on the arts education and public appreciation for the heritage arts in Ohio’s schools and community organizations.…

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JOHN CHRISTENSEN – BIO
John Christensen is an artist working in Austin, Texas. Born in New York City, he received degrees in Visual and Environmental Studies – and art – from Harvard and the University of Texas. Before 1990, he developed a body of site-sensitive work in rural landscapes of New York, Georgia and Texas. Since 1990, he has focused that sensibility on projects for the theater and the public place. He has created, in collaborations with choreographers, interactive props and theatrical environments for 30 productions presented in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. He has designed and built commercial spaces, and, unique and production furniture. Working in a variety of media he has exhibited around the country. He has completed 20 large scale public and private commissions in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Albuquerque, Miami, Tucson, Portland and Fort Worth. Collaborating with other design professionals he developed infrastructure and interactive art for a municipal park. He brings to any project an unusually broad set of technical and conceptual skills. In recent sculptures and reliefs he has arranged motifs to evoke organic systems – branching rhizomes, biotic colonies, neural networks, wave interference patterns, polymers – clustered works with perceptual associations that make poetic connections between phenomena in disparate fields. He sustains a studio practice, going to his studio most days to make things.

Photo of David F Chu

I learned photography in my teens, and I am still going strong almost fifty years later.

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David Cintron

Artist

David Louis Cintron has been working as a multi-disciplinary artist, musician since 1990. He draws, paints and plays music daily at his art studio in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was born and raised. He received a BFA in graphic design, with a minor concentration in Studio Art, from Kent State University. 

Art runs deep in David’s family history.…

Photo of Debbie Clapper

Though a traditionally trained graphic designer, Debbie is a self-taught artist. Her original drawings and paintings use no rulers, compasses, or masking tape, giving every line a rhythmic, kinetic, and powerful pulse. She began honing her freehand style at nine and hasn’t stopped since. Geometric patterns are a fundamental tenet in Debbie’s work, and she is constantly exploring how to create implied symmetry through asymmetry.

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Katie Clark is a self-taught Cleveland-based artist working primarily in watercolors.  With an emphasis on highly-detailed paintings that challenge traditional conventions of the medium, her watercolors are crisp, small, precise, and tactile. She channels her lifelong interest in nature with the signature botanical insect paintings for which she is most known.

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RYN CLARKE

Owner

Ryn is a visual artist, photographer and educator from Cleveland, Ohio. She embraces both her iPhone and digital SLR cameras and considers it a gift to be able to share what she has learned. Besides lecturing in both beginner and intermediate iPhone workshops around the country, Ryn also experiments with different photographic techniques in her image making, including elaborate nature compositing, photopolymer gravure, encaustic & hand-colored photographic prints.…

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Jason Clary is a representational artist and educator deeply committed to observational processes as a means of discovery. He specializes in the figure and portrait but is also engaged with cityscape and still life. Working in oils, pastel, and graphite, Clary is interested in a physical and psychological naturalism which only reveals itself within the visual dialogue between subject and artist over time.

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DAYTON  CLAUDIO e-mail: daytonclaudio@gmail.com   web: http://www.DaytonClaudio.com

EDUCATION

1998        M.F.A. San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 1982        M.A. Fine Arts, California State University, Chico, CA 1977        B.A.

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Heidi Clifford

Muralist

In 2014, Heidi came to Columbus College of Art & Design, earning her BFA in Advertising & Graphic Design. Within graphic design, Heidi found that she enjoyed creating fonts and small-scale illustrations, as well as learning what it means to design sustainably. Since graduating from CCAD in 2018, Heidi has freelanced in graphic design and murals, working with clients across multiple industries. Murals have given her the opportunity to explore different painting styles and how to meet a variety of needs like interior and exterior work, and sign painting.

Painting has always been the cornerstone of her work, and Heidi continues to pursue opportunities locally and nationally.

Photo of Robert Robert A Coates

I work with clay, bronze, and mixed media. Some of my work has its roots in ancient cultures, in which natural atmospheric forces are often personified as gods and goddesses. For example, in ancient Greece, times of day, heavenly bodies, and the earth were embodied in mythical persona. My pieces speak of the beauty and flow of the natural world, and they reflect my concern for and love of the earth.

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Arris Cohen

Owner

Columbus, Ohio-based artist Arris’ J. Cohen (Sir’Ra) has been building a name for himself while selling personal pieces and commissions as well as producing live paintings with faith based groups such a Fearless Dialogues (Atlanta, Georgia). As the Visual Animator, he created two pieces in real time for the Candler School of Theology’s New Student Orientation at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.…

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Donna Coleman

Artist

Donna Coleman received her BFA, Honors, in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA in painting from CUNY Brooklyn College, New York. Her paintings have been exhibited extensively in Washington DC, her hometown, and in northeastern Ohio, her home since 2000. Venues include The Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA; Gallery K, Duke Ellington School for the Arts, New Horizons Gallery of Children’s Hospital, the offices of Senator Eleanor Holmes Norton, The Washington Project for the Arts, WDC; Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, The Baron Gallery of Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH; the HereHere Gallery, The Mather Gallery of Case Western Reserve University, the Dead Horse Gallery, Cleveland, OH; Antioch College’s Herndon Gallery, Yellow Springs, OH; The Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH; The Little Gallery, BGSU Firelands, Huron, OH; The River Gallery, Rocky River, OH The Sandusky Cultural Center, Carrington Arts, Sandusky, OH; and the Harris Stanton Gallery, Akron & Cleveland, OH.…

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Chad Collofello

MFA Candidate

Chad Robert Collofello
Is an artist, teacher, and administrator, who is dedicated to creating positive change in society and preserving our ecosystem. This stems from his love for his family and a passion for justice.
He earned his Master’s of Art Administration from Ohio University in 2024 and his BFA in Painting and Printmaking at Illinois State University School of Fine Art. He is currently an MFA Candidate at Ohio University.
His most recent exhibitions were:
2024
Retro-spective, Exhibition, SēD Alternative Gallery & Lab, Chauncey, Ohio
2023
And Still Was, Graduate Exhibition, Ohio University Art Gallery, Athens, Ohio
Remedies of the Future, partly sponsored by Original Works Grant from the Graduate College at Ohio University, SēD Alternative Gallery & Lab, Chauncey, Ohio
As Is, First Year Graduate Exhibition, Trisolini Gallery, Athens, Ohio