Calls for Entry | Artist Residency | Internships | Paid Positions | Download the Full Season Opportunities Poster |
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| All Manifest calls-for-entry are open to all artists, from students to professionals, unless otherwise noted. |
EXHIBITION INFO FOR ARTISTS
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NEW EXHIBITING ARTIST HONORARIA Starting in fall 2023 and for Manifest's 20th season, each participating exhibitor will receive a $50 honorarium. The honorarium is a modest thank-you for collaborating with us as we chart our future. However, as an all-artist staff ourselves, we realize it may also be helpful as practical support for shipping, framing, delivery, or travel to attend the Manifest exhibit events. THE GRAND JURY AWARDS All exhibitors during each of nine exhibition periods across the season are automatically eligible to be considered for this award. Since Manifest's 13th season the annual Grand Jury Award has recognized one exhibited work each year with a significant jury-determined cash prize, representing the 'best of the best' shown in Manifest's many exhibits that year. To mark our transition into Manifest's 20th season as an arts organization by artists, for artists, we are making a change. For season 20 the new Grand Jury Award format will result in the awarding of $1,000 to one work during each of our nine exhibition periods. This expands our support from one to up to nine artists each year, and allocates 80% more funding to recognize the merits of exhibited works.
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Manifest is a 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit founded and operated by artists for artists, now heading into its 20th season. Since its launch in 2004 Manifest's exhibits and publications have featured nearly 10,000 works by 4,000 artists. Our organization has provided considerable support to working artists through all four aspects of its programming, and this continues to evolve every year. This is supported largely by individual donations small and large from across the country and beyond to our Annual Fund. |
Some upcoming exhibitions have deadlines extended by a few weeks as indicated below.
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| Show Period 3 (December 15 - January 12, 2024) |
14th Annual TAPPED TAPPED is a very special annual exhibit of works by artists presented side-by-side with works by their current or former instructors, showcasing the legacy of the academic process in art. |
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ILLUSTRATED ILLUSTRATED is a call for works of art (or design, or illustration) that depict, represent, explain, clarify, relate, illuminate, detail, or communicate. This may include works that are not 'pure' illustration, but which reflect upon or reference these ideas. |
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DISQUIET DISQUIET is a call for works of art about the strange, the uncanny, the abject, the revolting, the unsettling, and the things that frighten us. |
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$5,000 MANIFEST PRIZE $5000 cash award + solo exhibit of the winning work |
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| Show Period 4 (January 26 - February 23, 2024) |
FOODSTUFFS FOODSTUFFS is a call to the artists of today for works that explore food, hunger, nourishment, and food-related rituals and cultural practices as subject, form, or content. |
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WAXWORKS WAXWORKS is an exhibition of artworks made with, using, of, or about wax in all its forms. It is open to encaustic painting, sculpture, lost-wax processes, or any other media involving or depicting wax. |
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PAPERWORKS PAPERWORKS is an exhibit of works on paper, of paper, and about paper in all of its uses. |
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| Show Period 5 (March 8 - April 5, 2024) |
ANNUAL REGIONAL Calling for works for our special annual exhibit devoted to works by artists living and working in Ohio, Kentucky, & Indiana. |
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About the Manifest Jury Process The Manifest jury process is conducted by a rotating peer group panel of volunteers who are artists, arts professionals, Manifest alumni, and previous award recipients 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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(Season 20 poster shown at left) Each season Manifest sends an opportunities poster like this one to over 400 academic institutions across the U.S. Our new Season 20 poster is linked for download at left. It includes all Manifest artist opportunities for the season through August 2024. This poster gets pinned on information boards, studio walls, art center 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, awards, 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 and would like one or more, 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. Please also consider sharing the link to our poster by email and social media. Manifest is an organization by artists, for artists. We can only do what we do by virtue of good word of mouth and broad artist-involvement. |
Manifest is always looking for kindred creative spirits devoted to excellence in the visual arts for teaching opportunities in our educational studio curriculum. Our studios are a great landing spot for recent MFAs to hone their skill in the classroom for those who desire a future in education. |
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Manifest is supported by sustainability funding from
the Ohio Arts Council, and through the generous direct contributions of individual supporters and private foundations who care deeply about Manifest's mission for the visual arts. |
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