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GENERAL EXHIBITION INFO FOR ARTISTS
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Manifest Grand Jury Prize SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! |
The Manifest Jury Process The Manifest jury process is conducted by a rotating peer group panel of volunteers who are artists and arts professionals from around the country. Panel makeup changes from exhibit to exhibit in order to promote diversity in the types of work shown in the gallery. The process is always conducted as a blind jury where only the work in question is judged, not individuals. LEARN MORE...
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Manifest is a 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit founded and operated by artists for artists, now in its 17th season. Since its launch in 2004 Manifest's exhibits and publications have featured nearly 7500 works by over 3000 artists. Our organization has provided considerable support to working artists through all four aspects of its programming, and this continues to evolve every year. |
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12th Annual $5,000 MANIFEST PRIZE An international competition and exhibit featuring one prize-winning jury selected work, including a $5000 cash award. $1000 in additional awards to finalists. NOTE that the Manifest Prize is a separate award from the Season's Manifest Grand Jury Prize. |
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TAPPED 12 (side-by-side) Calling for works by artists and their current OR former teachers, showcasing the legacy of the academic process in art. Not a call for collaborative works. TAPPED will exhibit paired works by each artist. |
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PERCEPTUAL A call for works in any media made from direct observation. Perceptual is a call for work that primaries the artist’s process of perceiving their subject. |
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TONDO An International Call for Round Works, or Works Featuring the Circle as Primary Element. |
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THE FIVE-THEME PROJECT: Manifest has again created a very special set of exhibitions—the Five Themes Project. The project is made up of five concurrent interrelated thematic shows that will be presented at Manifest from January 21 - February 18, 2022. The first Five Themes Project was launched in 2020 with great success. This will be the third in what has become a much-loved annual project. |
FIVE-THEMES PROJECT (a special multi-exhibit experiment) | ||
WILDERNESS WILDERNESS is a place where we are not. There are places that we have not, cannot, maybe should not bring to heel. What kind of powerful, dangerous, and uncontrolled places remain? |
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RURAL The RURAL “countryside” is a little less inhabited, but it is still well-mapped and divided. What does a rural home look like? A rural school? A rural place of worship? A rural life? A rural philosophy? Where does 'rural' begin and end? What happens here? |
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SUBURBAN SUBURBIA is the classic habitat of the American Dream; its markers, its symbols, are specific even if their particular aesthetics have changed over time. |
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URBAN URBAN locations are built new on top of old, old converted to new, sometimes for hundreds of years. What does it look like to have so much of human civilization concentrated on one spot? How does the City shape culture, people, and everyday life? |
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POST-URBAN POST-URBAN asks what is going to change, what's next? Our planet is changing, and our policies, economics, interactions both on-and-off line, all of that will have to follow suit. How will our homes and lifestyles adapt? |
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EXHIBITS-IN-PRINT CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
Competitive Book Projects Surveying Painting, Drawing, or Photography on a Rotating Annual Basis |
INDA 15 $2000 in prizes, with $1200 first prize. A competitive peer-juried award-winning publication of works of drawing of all types made since January 1, 2019. This will be the last opportunity to participate in this publication and award until 2025! Find submission details and info here. |
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CALL FOR WRITING Critical, Philosophical, Creative, or other works related to practices of DRAWING, PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY, or the subject of LIGHT. Details on submitting written works to be considered for inclusion in our publications are available here. Writing is featured to supplement the INDA, INPHA, and INPA publications which focus primarily on visual art. |
Manifest Artist Residency (MAR) and Scholar in Residence (SIR) 2022/2023 A year-long free studio residency to support creative research. |
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Each season Manifest sends an opportunities poster like this one to over 400 academic institutions across the U.S. Our new Season 17 poster is linked at left. It includes all Manifest artist opportunities for the coming season through August 2021. This poster gets pinned on information boards, studio walls, art centers' info boards, and professors' office doors. It lists a full season of opportunities for professional, developing, academic, and student artists to participate in Manifest's peer-juried exhibits, publications, and artist residency programs. If you are an instructor or administrator at an academic institution with an art program, and do not usually see our posters at your institution, please email us at info@manifestgallery.org with your name, school mailing address, and the name of the institution you represent. We'll add you to our list if your school is not already on it. During this time of COVID new-normal, please consider sharing the link to our poster by email and social media. |
Manifest is not currently hiring for any paid positions. But we are always considering new volunteers passionate about our programming and mission. |
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Manifest's 18th season is funded in
part by a grant from the Josephine S. Russell Charitable Trust, PNC Bank, Trustee. This season's programming is also supported by the generosity of tens of thousands of contributors to the ArtsWave Community Campaign, by a sustainability grant from
the Ohio Arts Council, and through the generous direct contributions of individual supporters and private foundations who care deeply about the visual arts. |
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