Licking County Arts is excited to make a new beginning.
Our mission to promote and support the arts remains our top priority.

Help us foster a deeper connection between art and our community! 

Join us as we embark on this exciting endeavor!

Our History

Established in 1968, Licking County Arts is a 501c3 non-profit organization dedicated to providing leadership in the development of art education and exhibitions to residents of Licking County, Ohio. It serves as a liaison for artists, organizations, businesses, and government agencies in forming partnerships that develop diverse art opportunities for the artists and lovers of art in Licking County and the surrounding area. Won't you join us as we share and encourage experiencing the arts here at home! This organization is run entirely by volunteers. Your time and talent would be greatly appreciated. 

Licking County Arts Board & Advisory Council

Jill Crowe – President.

My involvement with the Licking County Art Association goes way back, participating in Newark High Student Art Shows when the Gallery was on Hudson Ave. My family moved to Newark in 1970 and I am a proud 1975 graduate of Newark High School Go Cats! I attended Bowling Green State University graduating in 1979 with Bachelor's Degrees in Fine Arts and Art Education. I interviewed and was hired with Newark City Schools, teaching art alongside my former art teacher Marilyn Stocker. How cool was that!?! It was such an honor to teach at my alma mater for 35 years. I retired in 2014.
Currently I do my own paintings and drawings, teach summer art classes for children and adults, offer private lessons and take art commissions from my home and Studio on King Road in Newark. I have one amazing son who is a guidance counselor in Columbus. I live on ten acres of woods and pond that are much of my inspiration for my art along with my four hens, a layin, three sweet studio cats, two very loved dogs and one treasured 1966 yellow Ford Mustang. I’m very excited to be a part of this art organization as it moves forward.

Marleen Cox – Vice President

My name is Marleen Cox and I have been making art for as long as I can remember. I won my first art contest when I was about nine or ten years old for the local library doing a mock up book cover for a Nancy Drew mystery. I was immediately hooked on being an artist. I studied art every chance I got, eventually earning a BFA in Painting and in Museum Studies from the Art Academy of Cincinnati. I am a multidisciplinary artist with painting as my main focus. I taught art for 20 years at the Taft Museum and at the Weston Gallery at Cinci’s Aronoff Center for the Arts. As a parent I was also very involved in my children’s school organizations, assuming Presidency and Treasurer positions. I also organized an artist co-op in Miamitown, OH, promoting and selling art and fine craft. I moved to Heath last year and have been impressed with the arts culture in the local area, so joined Licking County Arts and have been elected their Vice President this year. I look forward to helping promote the arts in Licking County.

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Regina Williams Secretary

My educational background and employment experiences have been with preschool age children having graduated from The Ohio State University with a Masters in Early and Middle Childhood Development. I retired from Central Ohio Technical College as Director/Faculty of the Associate Degree Early Childhood Education Program.  I continue to be an advocate for Project based learning for young children having studied the Reggio Emilia Approach to early educational practices. Though I have not had formal art education beyond several high school and college art classes. I am open to the study of various art techniques. 
I enjoy exploring and creating with numerous mediums. Being involved as a volunteer Board member and docent for Licking County Arts inspires me to think creatively and challenges me to practice with various materials.  I have worked on projects with fabric, felt, drawing, painting, and photography to capture a subject. I am inspired by nature, the humor in life and what makes me smile as I compose and create.  The challenge of learning about a new medium allows me to experience a fresh way of seeing, sometimes taking the same subject and recreating it with various art techniques.  I have written and illustrated three children’s books which are available on Amazon.

Thomas Nelson Trustee

Thomas has been painting professionally for fifty years now. During that time he has produced fine art frescos, wall and ceiling murals for both residential and commercial locations. He has also produced furniture, cabinet and wall finishes for ASID design studios. His work has been seen locally at several Designer Showcase Homes for the benefit of the Columbus Museum of Art, the Parade of Homes, both the Ohio and Palace Theaters, The Ohio State University, The Park National Bank and the Granville Inn. He has provided multiple book covers and his work has been seen within magazines such as Architectural Digest. His canvases have won several Best of Show awards at exhibitions such as  The Ohio Annual 2012 and even here at LCAs own members show. His work appears in homes and venues across the nation in cities such as Phoenix, Sedona, Santa Fe, Savannah, Aspen, Charleston, New York and Columbus.

Wendy Wilson Trustee

 Wendy Wilson is a potter and a teacher. She taught ceramics in NYC at Union Square Ceramics: The Educational Arts Alliance; Mud, Sweat & Tears; La Mano; Public School IS89. In Newark she taught at The Works, and in Granville at The School for the Visual Arts at Bryn Du. She studied at Denison and at Cranbrook Academy.

Leslie Najjar Trustee

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Emily Kohser Trustee

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Supporting Members of Licking County Arts