Calls for Entry | Artist Residency | Internships | Paid Positions| Download the Full Season Opportunities Poster |
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GENERAL EXHIBITION INFO FOR ARTISTS
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Manifest Grand Jury Prize A $2500 cash prize awarded to one work as a 'best of the season' from among all exhibits at Manifest. All current season exhibitors are potentially eligible for this prize.* Candidates will be announced in early fall after the close of each season. |
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 by artists for artists, now in its 16th 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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Each season Manifest sends an opportunities poster like this one to over 400 academic institutions across the U.S. Our new Season 16 poster is linked at right. It includes all Manifest artist opportunities for the coming season through August 2020. 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. |
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WEATHERED Calling for Works About Wear or Time Passing “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ― Lao Tzu |
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MUNDANE Calling for Works About the Ordinary The most interesting lessons often lie in the mundane—those aspects of everyday life that locals take for granted and tourists tend to overlook. — Esther Dyson |
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PERIPHERAL Calling for Works About Edges and Boundaries “Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.” ― Haruki Murakami |
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ENVIRONMENTAL Calling for Works About the Environment. “Despite all of our pretenses and fantasies, we always have been and will remain a biological species tied to this particular biological world. Millions of years of evolution are indelibly encoded in our genes. History without the wildlands is no history at all.” ― E. O. Wilson |
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CHAOS Calling for Works About Chaos, Disorder, Displacement. “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.” ― Mary Shelly |
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OHIO, KENTUCKY, INDIANA REGIONAL Calling for works for our special annual exhibit devoted to works by artists living and working in Ohio, Kentucky, & Indiana. OPEN CALL: no media or thematic restrictions! |
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TOPOGRAPHIES An International Call for Art About Layers, Mapping, & Paths “You can't use an old map to explore a new world.” ― Albert Einstein |
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Publication Projects ( Competitive Book Projects Surveying Painting, Drawing, and Photography )
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INPHA 8 A competitive peer-juried award-winning publication of works of photography and lens-based art of all types
made since January 1, 2017. This will be the last opportunity to participate in this publication and award until 2023! |
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WRITING Critical, Philosophical, Creative, or other works related to practices |
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Upcoming Season 17 - Solo Gallery Exhibits running Sept. 2020 – August 2021)
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SOLO PROPOSALS - FULL SEASON 17 A Call for Solo Proposals for Season 17 |
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Manifest Artist Residency (MAR) and Scholar in Residence (SIR) 2019/2020 A year-long free studio residency to support creative research. |
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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 16th season is funded in
part by a grant from the Robert H. Reakirt Foundation, PNC Bank, Trustee. This season's programming is also supported by an impact grant
from ArtsWave, by a sustainability grant from
the Ohio Arts Council, and through the generous contributions of individual supporters who care deeply about the visual arts.
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Contribute to our Annual Fund |
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