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. |
As a small artist-run nonprofit, we are keenly aware of public wellbeing and of the potential impact of the current pandemic on our friends, colleagues, students, and neighbors. Manifest believes in creativity, discipline, and optimism, and that these are essential especially in challenging times. With this we have found ways to serve the artists, students, and community members who rely on our programming as a source of inspiration and aspiration, even in a crisis like the one we now all face together. The Gallery has continued to operate, and current and future exhibition and publication processes will continue with a few modifications.** Submissions to our projects will continue to be accepted. All exhibits are currently planned to be produced on schedule**. We will continue to make additional efforts to share images of exhibited works, installation views, and VR Tours via social media during the foreseeable future to provide 'virtual access'. July 27, 2020 *Artists are reminded that all exhibited works (whether virtual or physical) will be featured in our large season-documenting retrospective publication, the Manifest Exhibition Annual once it is produced after the season ends. However only physically exhibited works will be eligible to contend for the end-of-season $2,500 Manifest Grand Jury Prize.
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LET THERE BE. An international call for works of photography, primarily photo-based, or lens-based art exploring tangibility and objectness. Sponsored by FotoFocus and originally planned to be a participating exhibition in the 2020 Biennial. ***Covid-impact flexibility plan is NO SHIPPING REQUIRED to participate for qualified submissions.*** |
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LET HERE BE Concurrent with LET THERE BE, an international call for works of any media that is NOT photography, photo-based, or lens-based art, but which also explores tangibility and objectness. ***Covid-impact flexibility plan is NO SHIPPING REQUIRED to participate for qualified submissions.*** |
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BEING IN AMERICA How do artists record thoughts, feelings, and observations on what it means to be in America today, whether that is from the point of view of one living here now, of those who aspire to be here one day, or from those who observe at a distance. |
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ARTIFICIAL LIGHT An international call for works in any media about, using, or depicting artificial light. |
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GROWN An international call for works in any media about maturity, adulthood, and the magic that time brings to age. |
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MODIFIED An international call for art about how artworks can be about or depict the process of tuning, refining, or altering subjects, their contexts, or materials in order to achieve a different purpose or point. |
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TAPPED 11 (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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HOARD “Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.” ― C.S. Lewis |
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HOMAGE An international call for works honoring, inspired by, or sharing respect for another artist. |
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11th Annual 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. *Fees discounted for early entry by October 1st. |
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Publication Projects ( Competitive Book Projects Surveying Painting, Drawing, or Photography )
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INPA 10 A competitive peer-juried award-winning publication of works of painting of all types
made since January 1, 2018. 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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Manifest Artist Residency (MAR) and Scholar in Residence (SIR) 2020/2021 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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