Ginny Baughman was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. She received a BFA from the University of Dayton and an MA in art education from the Ohio State University. Ginny has also attended a variety of professional workshops, seminars, and conferences including the Kennedy Center’s National Seminar for Teaching Artists in Washington, D.C.

Ginny has been a teaching artist for more than 25 years. She has taught art in many different venues in central Ohio and Dayton. She began her art career almost 30 years ago selling prints of her drawings and paintings in her then hometown of Westerville. Ginny received five Community Artist Grants from the Greater Columbus Arts Council. She received the 2021 Montgomery County Artist opportunity Grant to complete a Coloring Book of Dayton area landmarks. In 2023 she completed a coloring book for Wapakoneta Ohio. Ginny now works as a scenic artist, or charge artist, for Town Hall Theater in Centerville, Ohio.

Ginny also does contemporary artwork that is content based. Content based means that she uses a variety of media for her art including, but is not limited to, 3D paintings, paper sculptures, found object sculptures, installations, and chalk art. Many of Ginny’s artworks have been accepted into local and national exhibitions. They have also been featured in variety newspaper articles about these exhibitions.

Today, Ginny creates both traditional and contemporary artwork. Being a split personality artist gives Ginny, and her students, versatility to explore lots of different types of art. She loves creating traditional artworks of familiar places, but she also enjoys creating contemporary artwork that gets people thinking about important issues. Ginny has a love for art from her family heritage like Ukrainian Egg Decorating. In recent years she has come to enjoy the art of theater, because of her job as a scenic charge artist.

Ginny has the ability to do a wide variety of residencies including, but not limited to, the following: traditional art such as drawing, painting and Ukrainian egg decorating; contemporary art including found object sculpture & sidewalk chalk art; and theater arts including stage design, decoration and painting.

 

RECENT PROJECTS: Hosted Ukrainian Egg Decorating Workshops at three Ohio State Parks as part of the OAC/ODNR Arts in the Parks (summer 2023) – Deer Creek, Salt Fork, and Shawnee. I loved working in the parks. It was a great place to have workshops.

I’ve been working with an afterschool program called Recing Crew trough the Washington Township Rec Plex that provides afterschool care for our area. 2024-2025 will be my third year working with the program. When I began,  right after COVID, I had about 20 kids, now we are up to over 40 and next year we might have as many as 60! I come in about twice a month and do different thematic art projects.

 

Availability

Upon request

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Images courtesy of the teaching artist.