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.
2025 Ohio Artist Registry Juried Exhibition
Steven Carmean
Artist
I am inspired by the interplay between light and shadow, as well as geometric shapes. I paint a variety of subjects but am most drawn to urban landscapes or cityscapes. Although somewhat representative, I often bend reality to meet my own vision. Most important to me is the overall feeling of the painting. I’ve been told I have a ‘graphic style’, thus the name of my studio, GraphicStyle Studio.
Danny Caro
Motion Graphic Designer | Illustrator | Photographer
Danny is a post-production specialist who loves to design graphics and make things come to life on video.
Ed Carpenter
Artist
Ed Carpenter is an artist specializing in large-scale public installations ranging from architectural sculpture to infrastructure design. Since 1973 he has completed scores of projects for public, corporate, and ecclesiastical clients. Working internationally from his studio in Portland, Oregon, USA, Carpenter collaborates with a variety of expert consultants, sub-contractors, and studio assistants. He personally oversees every step of each commission, and installs them himself with a crew of long-time helpers, except in the case of the largest objects, such as bridges.
As an award-winning artist and alumni of CCAD, Dixie has many years creating stories through representational drawing ~ whether it’s Children’s Book Illustrations, Portraits, or creating 3D, Painted Wood Illustrations. She enjoys working in pastels, charcoal, pencil, acrylic and wood, and approaches every project with joy.
Born in Lima, Ohio. Trained at both The College Conservatory of Music at The University of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky University. Has worked extensively throughout the Midwest regional theatre scene, particularly in the Cincinnati and Columbus Areas.
Carrie Cartwright
Graphic Designer & Photographer
Over the course of Carrie’s career, she has been able to utilize her expertise as a Graphic Designer and photographer; she creates images and designs that apply to a wide variety of styles and applications.
I enjoy creating figurative paintings and drawings that tell a story and often my inspiration comes from the night sky. I imagine Copernicus in a star-chart sweater, a procession of constellations and whimsical moons. Central to my artwork is Psalm 19 which begins, “The Heavens declare the glory of God.” I work primarily in oil with mixed media like gold and silver metal leaf and sheet music.
Bruno Casiano
Painter
Bruno Casiano is a Puerto Rican artist based in Cleveland Ohio who combines traditional and contemporary art. Born in Gary, Indiana, the son of a steel worker, Bruno’s family moved back to their hometown, Juana Diaz, a rural community in Puerto Rico when he was 10 years old. Young Casiano developed an interest in art awakened by these rural surroundings and by the awareness of living in an Island, which made an impression on him.…
Michael Casselli
Chair of the Arts Division/Associate Professor of Sculpture and Installation/Interim Creative Director Herndon Gallery
Michael Casselli has been interested in the hybridization of forms and media since he received his undergraduate degree in visual arts/performance theory from Antioch College in 1987. While at the college, he staged large-scale outdoor mixed media performance installations, whose primary focus was an attempt to clarify issues of sense-based perception and the physicality inherent in performative work.…
Kara Cea
Executive Director/Fouder
ArtSparks is an educational outreach organization that provides access to quality dance and music classes and performances to children who may not otherwise have the opportunity. ArtSparks is an Associate of the National Dance Institute and is uniquely equipped to with NDI’s accalimed pedagogy that brings out the best in every child.
In every ArtSparks class, two teaching artists and a musician joyfully lead participants in an exploration of a core academic subject through a fast-paced dance lesson.…
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.
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.
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
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.…
Hello! I am a student at Ohio University and I am studying Graphic Design and furthering my studies with the Cello!
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.…
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.
I learned photography in my teens, and I am still going strong almost fifty years later.
Ching is a visual and digital artist whose vibrant, whimsical work explores imagination, joy, and storytelling. Born in Brunei and raised in Ohio, she draws from cultural roots, travel, and a background in industrial design. Through bold color, organic forms, and expressive lettering, she creates uplifting work across illustration, surface design, and public art—inviting moments of connection, beauty, and playful reflection.
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.…