All Artists

Aaron Casey Jr.

I'm a self taught artist in the Cleveland area. Focused mostly on Mural work and Acrylic painting on canvas. I've been drawing for about 20 years now and paintings for 7 years.

Abigail Cipar

Abby Cipar is a multidisciplinary artist, arts advocate, curator, educator, and wage laborer with roots in Northeast Ohio. Cipar received a BFA from The University of Akron (2021) and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art (2024). In addition to other notable honors, Cipar was a 2023 recipient of the Stewart Thomson Fellowship at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and 2019 Folk Charitable Foundation Venice Biennale Travel Award. They have led workshops at FAVA Gallery (Oberlin, Ohio) and Cranbrook Academy of Art (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan), collaborated with Downtown Cuyahoga Falls Partnership to bring art to Front Street, and worked as an assistant on murals alongside Akron's Art Bomb Brigade. Cipar currently serves as a Community Member on Summit Artspace's (Akron, Ohio) Artist Programs Committee. Their work was included in Cleveland’s 2022 CAN Triennial, and they have exhibited widely in both institutional settings and local, artist-run spaces. In addition to numerous private collections, their work is in the care of Emily Davis Gallery (Akron, Ohio) and Akron Children’s Hospital (Akron, Ohio). Projects for 2025 include co-curating "FRESH: Soft Offerings" at Summit Artspace (Akron, Ohio), solo shows with The McDonough Museum of Art (Youngstown, Ohio) and 934 Gallery (Columbus, Ohio), and a residency at Akron Soul Train (Akron, Ohio).

Adiah Bonham

I earned a BFA in Studio Art Painting from Kent State University. Looking to exhibit my work, paint, and connect.

Allison Bogard Hall

Allison Bogard Hall is an interdisciplinary artist and educator living and working in Cleveland, Ohio. Hall earned her BFA in Painting and Literary Studies from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2014, and has since been expanding her work through multiple mediums such as printmaking, installation, found object sculpture, and darkroom photography. Her pieces are often autobiographical and heavily influenced by current events, found imagery, and literature. As an exhibiting artist, Hall has had two solo exhibitions in the North East Ohio area since 2021, and is a recipient of the CAN Triennial Exhibition Prize (2022). In addition to solo exhibitions, Hall has also shown work in group shows in Maine, Philadelphia, and throughout the Midwest. In Spring of 2024, Hall co-founded the publishing press BHB press with fellow artist Sam R. Butler. Together, Butler and Hall applied for and were awarded an Urgent Art Fund grant administered by SPACES and supported by residents of Cuyahoga County + Assembly for the Arts through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. When Hall is not busy making work out of her studio at the Screw Factory in Lakewood, Ohio, she is out hiking with her partner and son or working as a Studio Manager at the Cleveland Institute of Art.

Amber Glendell McClendon

Amber is a young woman defined by emotion. As she navigates life, trying to find the path that suits her best, Amber is constantly drawn towards creative expression as a mode of survival. Amber is grateful to all the experiences and wonderful people that she has known, that continue to be integral in shaping her into someone who pursues their passions fearlessly. Amber has dabbled in a number of artistic mediums, from sewing and clothing/jewelry design, drawing and painting, prose and poetry, and even musical and dance pursuits. All of which are things she often finds herself coming back to at one time or another. Her only objective in her artistry is organic creation and authentic representation.

Amelia Casiano

Her artwork shows an overlooking insight and depth of her dynamic background, roles, storytelling and history. Much of the work she paints are reflective of what she want to bring about to the world and how different topics such as womanhood, emotional tendencies, emotions, nature, shapes, climate change, conflicts, situations, and colors can work together in such ways. The main focus is to carry through different roles and being transparent through dialogue that can still be translated in the way that is demonstrated best. She want to show the connectedness of different cultures within her community and through out the world. While, growing up on the Near West side of Cleveland, as an artist, painting and being able to work through various forms of art, it has allowed her to communicate her message as an artist. She wants to get an understanding of how to work her craft, her art and understand the people within her community as much as the things that are around her and for her to share her art skills. Her work is a standpoint of the connection with extroverted and introverted moods, quiet or loud, soft, subtle, movement, flow and stagnant as well. While growing up in Cleveland, it has allowed her work to be impacted through the environment, culturally, spiritually and physically aware of her own customs that have allowed her to diversify herself and her work.

Arch Budzar

Cleveland, Oh / USA

Arch Budzar is an American multimedia artist & poet. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and currently based in Cleveland, Ohio. Budzar’s style lives in the crossroads of poetry and visual art. With inspiration driven from mysticism and the occult- their art is colorful, esoteric, and distinctive. They studied Fine Arts at Columbia College Chicago and now hold several honorary recognitions for their work, such as Scholastic's Silver Key Award for Poetry.

Ashton Burton

Ashton Burton is an artist from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Burton’s work describes the Black American experience by referencing symbols, and iconography often shared through various media. He mainly uses the figure, landscape and motifs in his work. Burton primarily uses acrylic paint, oil paint, and drawing mediums like charcoal, conté and graphite to create vivid images, familiar spaces, and intimate compositions. Burton is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA), Cleveland, Ohio. His work has been exhibited at the Kent State University Downtown Gallery in Kent, Ohio, The Transformer Station in association with The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio and 2 West Ypsi in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Burton was awarded a 1st place prize in the 2024 exhibition, Aggregate II: The Revenge of the Rock, SIE 79’ The Douglas Dibble Creativity Award, Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland Institute of Art Cleveland, OH, and the Carl Gaertner '24 Memorial Prize, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH.

Benjamin Lambert

Benjamin Is a teaching artist that has been teaching ceramics and sculpture in Higher Ed for the past 10 years, most recently (2019-2025) as an Associate Professor of Art at Baldwin Wallace University, in Berea, OH. In 2008, he received a B.F.A. with a concentration in ceramics from the University of Southern Maine. In 2010, he worked as a summer staff member at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, in Newcastle, Maine. He received an MFA in Ceramics and Sculpture in 2015 at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Edinboro, PA. Ben Exhibits his work nationally, and has presented workshops at institutions including Oxbow School of Art in Saugatuck, MI, Touchstone Center for Crafts in Farmington, PA, the 2018 Michigan Mud Ceramics Conference, and Westminster College, S.L.C. UT. He has assisted artists during workshops at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine, and Arrowmont School of Art and Craft in Gatlinburg, TN. He was also an Artist-in-residence at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, and in the second annual Arrowmont Pentaculum.

Bonnie App

Lakewood, Ohio

Bonnie has had a lifelong passion for art, which she pursued alongside her careers as a teacher and later as a commercial graphic artist. She explored various artistic mediums in her free time. In recent years, she deepened her artistic exploration by embracing botanical watercolor and photography, eventually expanding to include the 19th-century photographic process of cyanotype photograms. Cyanotypes are notable for their unique blue tones and for capturing images through UV/sun printing, often without a camera. Bonnie finds joy in creating art that celebrates the beauty of plants and their natural habitats. The cyanotype process particularly resonates with her, consistently offering new insights and delights.

Brennan Cooper

Brennan Cooper is a multidisciplinary African American artist, originally from Cincinnati and rooted in Akron, Ohio. She works primarily in oil painting, drawing, and photography. Her art is grounded in emotion and storytelling, often influenced by music, nature, and personal experience. Through vivid, surreal imagery, she explores themes of healing, transformation, and a dreamlike space where the unseen self finds expression.

Brian Bailey

Brian Mark Bailey is a Cleveland-based visual artist working in painting, drawing and black-and-white film photography. His work is a meditation on presence, faith, and the quiet resilience of Black life. Rooted in both studio and street, Bailey captures the tension between motion and stillness, inheritance and isolation, labor and love. Influenced by German Expressionism and street photography traditions, his images elevate overlooked corners, tired hands, folded arms, passing glances, into moments of quiet power. Bailey’s practice is shaped by his Black and Puerto Rican heritage, his faith, and his life as a husband and father. His ongoing photo project, The Craft of Legacy, serves as both personal archive and spiritual record, a body of work made to remember what matters.

Camara Goodrich

Camara “Cam” Goodrich is an award‑winning mixed media and multidisciplinary artist whose paintings and large‑scale murals pair vibrant color with layered, tactile surfaces to explore identity, shared humanity, and our connection to the earth. Her work is exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States and held in international collections, including the National Bank of Canada. Public commissions include a full‑intersection asphalt mural in South Lorain and a commemorative mural for the Raymond John Wean Foundation’s 75th anniversary. Goodrich has received multiple juried awards, including at the Massillon Museum. She also teaches in museums, libraries, and community programs. Mentoring emerging artists, is also part of Goodrich’s practice. Many of whom have went on to gain their own professional art practices. Her touring work recently moved from the Losinski Gallery to the Beck Center for the Arts, and has multiple stops across the state of Ohio. Goodrich is the artist and owner of Cam Creates Art Studio and the author of a business side of art guide, for artists.

Carla Wagner

Carla Wagner is a recent Spring 2025 graduate from Kent State University. She pursued a B.F.A. in Studio Art with a concentration in Painting and a Minor in Drawing. She currently has work exhibited at Patti DiBenedetto's Gallery at Ohio Design Center in Beachwood, OH, where she is represented. Wagner recently won First Runner Up Undergraduate for the 2025 Student Annual Exhibition at Kent State University's Center For Visual Art Building.

Celeste Stauber

Celeste Stauber (she/her) is a Cleveland based artist and curator with a B.A. in Studio Art from Baldwin Wallace University. In her work, she draws inspiration from the human form and focuses on drawing. She enjoys exploring different mediums and using her own drawings to create collages. She currently has studio space in the Twist Drill Building in Cleveland. Her work has been exhibited regionally in various galleries such as Valley Art Center, Hoyt Art Center and KINK Contemporary. Celeste spent 2021 co-curating with Jared Gepperth at E11even2 Gallery located in 78th Street Studios. Together Celeste and Jared produced 6 exhibitions featuring NE Ohio artists. In 2024, she curated an interactive exhibition titled "Neverending Cycles: A Laundromat Soap Opera" with collaborator Taylor Clapp. This exhibition featured 25 artists, over 50 works of art, many clothes pins and a laundry themed zine library by Late Night Copies Press. Celeste currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio where she works as the Gallery & Store Manager at the Morgan Papermaking Conservatory. When she is not painting or drawing, you can find Celeste wandering the Cleveland Metroparks or tending to her plants.

Christine Seeholzer

Christine Seeholzer is an Avon Lake-based painter originally from Toledo, Ohio, who specializes in portraits, landscapes and still life paintings with spiritual themes. She has participated in juried and invitational exhibitions and has won awards for her paintings. Christine decided to pursue her dream of owning her own home-based art business in 2022, and has since launched Sacred Space Studios, LLC. www.christineseeholzerart.com. Since the formation of her business, she has self-published two books, Rise: An Affirmation Journal from Your Higher Self ,and Hope is the Last One to Die .as well as opened an Etsy Shop: Sacred Space Art Studio. She aims through teaching art to create the conditions for others to experience the peace and meditative state available through creating. She believes that imagination is alchemy, and each artist co-creates their reality with the divine. Christine offers private art lessons and summer art classes at the beautiful Lake House through Avon Lake Parks and Recreation.

Crystal Miller

Crystal Miller is an interdisciplinary mixed-media artist based in Cleveland, Ohio. She holds an Associate degree in Graphic Design and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Sculpture and Expanded Media (SEM) from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2023. Crystal's work is deeply inspired by Afro-futurism, blending African traditions with futuristic visions to challenge Eurocentric aesthetics. Her art celebrates the strength and beauty of African American women, using unconventional materials such as beads, glitter, rhinestones, and foam. These elements are combined with organic patterns and exaggerated undertones of Black skin to create dynamic paintings and sculptures that envision a future where Black identity is celebrated and empowered. Crystal’s recent exhibitions include Queens & Shiny Things, at Akron Soul Train in Akron, OH, and Adornment at the Solomon Gallery in Youngstown, OH. In addition to her exhibitions, she has been featured in several Cleveland magazines, including the CAN Journal Fall 2023 cover and CanvasCle Winter 2023. She recently finished a mural titled “Until the Time Comes, We Bloom” in Public Square, Cleveland, OH.

Dana Dzurko

Dana Dzurko is a Cleveland-based artist whose work explores themes of resilience, healing, and transformation. Working primarily in acrylics, her style merges abstract expressionism with realism, creating a powerful visual narrative. Dana received her Bachelor of Arts from Ursuline College with a focus in painting and fine art photography, and also pursued studies at Bowling Green State University and with artist Jodie King. Her personal journey as a survivor of a ruptured brain aneurysm has become a profound influence on her creative practice, fueling her exploration of art as a vital tool for recovery. Her work has gained significant recognition, with eight exhibitions in the past year alone. A highlight includes a dual exhibition with Lane Cooper at Pinwheel Gallery. Dana’s art will be featured in an extended exhibition at Wooster Community Hospital, which will also add one of her pieces to its permanent collection. In a uniquely meaningful honor, Dana’s painting depicting her experience during the aneurysm rupture has been acquired for the permanent collection of the new Cleveland Clinic Neurology Building on its main campus.

Davon Brantley

Davon Brantley, a Cleveland, OH native, graduated with a BFA in Drawing from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2018. Since then, he has deeply immersed himself in the art community, engaging in teaching, curating, exploring diverse mediums, exhibiting his work, and mentoring emerging artists. Davon is consistently working to shape perceptions of art as a viable and sustainable career path. ​ In recognition of his contributions and talent, Carta awarded him the 2024 Eterovich Award. This prestigious award, funded by a donation from the family of Anthony Eterovich—an artist and educator who led CIA's children's classes for over 50 years—is presented to exceptional emerging artists with works in carta’s collection. ​ Brantley has exhibited and curated at significant venues including Bay Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland, the CAN Triennial, the Morgan Conservatory, the Indianapolis Arts Center, and the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve. He collaborates with local organizations such as the Museum of Creative Human Art and Graffiti HeArt, furthering his printmaking studies through DeepDive Art Projects and the Cleveland Institute of Art. Additionally, he advocates for introducing the arts to younger generations and participates in mural projects. ​ In his artistic practice, Brantley employs self-portraiture and psychological themes, drawing inspiration from dissociative behaviors resulting from trauma. He explains, “I guide the audience through my own narratives surrounding colorism, racial stereotyping, and meditations on death, life, sexuality, and masculinity. By using my image, viewers encounter someone who may not share their experiences and who actively disrupts identity expectations.” Through his multifaceted involvement in the art community and his poignant explorations, Davon Brantley inspires and empowers both audiences and aspiring artists alike.

Day Watson

Day Watajii (also known as Day Watson) was born and raised near Cleveland, Ohio, with a deep captivation for art and travel from youth. She is often found exploring the world, using art to express the multitudes of life lessons and realizations discovered along the journey. Day thrives on long-term solo travel, as it allows her to fully immerse herself in new experiences and cultures. She adores hosting creative events around the world and collaborating with like-minded individuals on their journey. Watajii was born in 2019 as Day's creative vision—a space to unite their diverse artistic passions into one cohesive platform. Watajii (pronounced Wah-Tah-Jee) is a multidisciplinary form of expression that combines Day’s core creative passions: painting/drawing, graphic design, cinematography, photography, and fashion. Day’s work is deeply influenced by their travels, spirituality, connection with God, and a love for nature and introspection. Their artistic style is an exploration of vibrant, surreal, and abstract perspectives, often infused with a playful feel and bold, colorful imagery. Common themes in their work include fluid forms, squiggly line work, and intricate details that give depth and movement to the pieces. ​Watajii is much more than simply an art brand—it stands as a testament to the boundless possibilities that can unfold when passion and faith meet dedication. Day’s aspiration for Watajii is simple yet profound—to inspire and unveil the attainability of one’s dreams and ideal life through unwavering commitment to one's genuine passions and intuition.

Debbie Clapper

Born and raised in Ohio, Debbie Clapper (gneural) earned a BFA in graphic design from the Art Institute of Colorado. She lived in Colorado for 22 years, establishing herself in Denver / Boulder’s art and design community, and returned to Ohio in 2020 to be closer to family and reconnect with her midwest roots. With her drawing style and technique, Debbie is self-taught. No rulers or compasses are used in her originals, giving every line a rhythmic, kinetic, and powerful pulse. She began honing her freehand skill at nine and hasn’t stopped drawing since. Debbie’s work stands out. It’s bold. It’s unique. It has a playfulness that makes you want to dance (or at least crack a smile). She credits being a prolific artist (creating daily) and her style’s entrancing depth and dimensionality to her three main inspirations: Op Art, patterns, and graffiti. Debbie’s art does more than hang on a wall—it transforms into an immersive experience with the collaboration of experiential software developer, Cacheflowe. Their works combine art and tech to create engaging installations that become delightfully active—and sometimes responsive—moving and transforming across various surfaces and spaces. Debbie’s patterns and designs have elevated clients and brands such as Boulder Arts + Culture, City of Boulder, Hope Hummus, NINE dot ARTS, Pactimo, Rickshaw Bags, Smartwool, and Tom’s Urban 24. She’s been interviewed on several creative podcasts and has won awards for her art, designs, and illustrations. You can see her captivating work in murals, interior decor, drawings, and paintings, as well as on streets, vehicles, and all manner of objects and merchandise. Debbie served as a member of Downtown Cleveland's City Advocates 2023 Cohort. The mission of the City Advocates is to create an inclusive, 24/7 global city and a welcoming beacon of talent that weaves Downtown Cleveland districts and surrounding neighborhoods into a seamless urban fabric.

Diane Fleisch Hughes

Diane Fleisch Hughes LPAT, ATR-BC, LPCC-S is an Ohio licensed Art Therapist and contemporary working artist based in the Cleveland, Ohio area. She currently maintains her artist studio in Willoughby, Ohio as part of Stella’s Art Gallery. Diane is the Art Therapist at Julie Billiart School in Lyndhurst, Ohio and Adjunct Faculty in the graduate program at Ursuline College with which she participates in service learning trips around the world with her students. Diane’s work is primarily mixed media figurative painting but she likes to experiment with all media. The work is intuitive and loose, often combining realistic images with areas of emotional color. Her mixing of mediums and painterly mark making creates visual excitement on paper and canvas. She has completed residencies at the New York Studio School in NYC and Wildacres in NC. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally and is in many private collections around the country including Mercyhurst University and Progressive Insurance. As part of the Stella’s Art Gallery community of artists, Diane curate’s gallery shows, facilitates bi-weekly life drawing sessions for local artists and just wrapped up a successful solo show of her work in Columbus, Ohio in January 2025.

Elizabeth Emery

Elizabeth A. Emery is a multidisciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited at museums and galleries across the United States and supported by the Ohio Arts Council, Rasmuson Foundation, and New York Foundation for the Arts, among others. She has done public commissions in hospitals and a library and been awarded residencies at Haystack, Jentel Foundation, Rasmuson Foundation, and FRONT International. Emery’s work has been collected by the Cleveland Clinic, Progressive Insurance, American Greetings, Rockefeller Collection, Westin Hotel Cleveland, and Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art. A former professional athlete, Emery also operates the podcast Hear Her Sports, which celebrates individual female athletes and invites conversation around women’s sports. (A special edition of Hear Her Sports was commissioned for the 2018 FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art.) She holds an MFA in ceramic sculpture from Alfred University and has lived and worked in Cleveland since 2008.

Elizabeth Lax

Cleveland based oil painter, Elizabeth Lax, focuses primarily on human form. After being raised in a restrictive environment, painting has become a way for her to express what has been silenced. Her subjects typically have obscured identities or are presented without clothing. She aims to expose the subjects while keeping them hidden. The content of these paintings are a way of rebelling against the puritanical beliefs she was raised with. In 2019 she received her BA in Studio Arts from Kent State University with a primary focus on painting. She continues her practice with a focus on cults and their affects on members.