The Women of Ohio project is a celebration of the achievements and diversity of women from the city of Columbus and Ohio.

Chosen for First Place in the 2025 Open Call: Livestream by Marcus Jackson

Explore this site to find out more about these amazing women, and to find inspiration for your own artwork and poems dedicated to their life and work.


“I’m a believer in the power of knowledge and the ferocity of beauty, so from my point of view, your life is already artful—waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.” 

Toni Morrison, novelist and Nobel Prize for Literature, born in Lorain, Ohio, 1931