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SPRING OPEN HOUSE

Saturday, March 15, 4-7pm

3464 Central Parkway (m1)

Free tickets to RSVP are available here


A Sanctuary for the Practice, Learning, and Experience of the Visual Arts

“Painting and Drawing bring us into a different, deeper, and more full appreciation of the object.
We have had a gut full of fast art and fast food. What we need more of is slow art;
art that holds time as a vase holds water!” — Robert Hughes

   An active life drawing session will be open for visitors to observe and ask questions.

Join us!


Manifest Drawing Center Spring Open House
Saturday, March 15, 2025, 4-7pm

GET FREE TICKETS TO RSVP HERE

 

Manifest is hosting a spring open house at the Manifest Drawing Center's Central Parkway campus to welcome friends and neighbors from Greater Cincinnati and beyond.

Join us to celebrate the growing community that has shaped the
Drawing Center, and get a first-hand update about our progress towards
establishing the Manifest Center for the Visual Arts—a regional
sanctuary for practice, learning, and experience. It will be a special chance to meet many passionate students and instructors in drawing, painting, photography, and printmaking.

The event will also serve as a book release for a new volume of
photography documented entirely at Spring Grove Cemetery and
Arboretum and printed in our community darkroom by Kalie Krause.

Learn about a range of recent and current programming while you discover more about Manifest’s unparalleled mission and our plans to evolve into the Manifest Center for the Visual Arts in our third decade. Whether you're an artist, an art lover, or simply curious, we invite you to connect with friends—new and old—and fellow creatives to explore the extensive resources we’ve assembled for the benefit of our entire community!

  • Eternal Sermon book release and exhibition with Kalie Krause.

  • Studios will be open throughout the building for self-guided visits, including showcases of works by current program participants.

  • Artists will be working from a live model in our Large Studio throughout the evening. Visitors are encouraged to walk through and observe!

  • Staff, Board Members, and Volunteers will be on hand for casual conversations to explain the various facets of Manifest, aspects of each program space, and plans for the future.

  • Many artworks made by many local artists at the Center will be on view.

  • Manifest's Scholar in Residence, Megan Wolfkill, will have her studio open, and be on hand to meet the public for conversations.

  • Light refreshments will be provided.

  • Parking available on site, on street nearby, with overflow parking kindly offered by our neighbors at DePaul Cristo Rey High School.

  • Enter building through the Drawing Center entrance, east side (main/rear parking lot side) of building. Grab a self-guided tour map when you arrive, or download one here. Look for this unmistakable feature to find your way:




enter the building under the 'sun and moon' off the main parking lot

 

(email info@manifestvisualarts.org with questions).


 


See the growing collection of donated equipment that will make up the future Manifest Printmaking Studio.

 

Print or email our flyer to invite others to this event!

 

A photograph by Kalie Krause documented at Spring Grove Cemetery, printed at the Manifest darkroom and featured in her new book, Eternal Sermon.


See interesting spaces, equipment, and objects all supporting practicing, learning, and experiencing the visual arts.

 


A painting by Megan Wolfkill, 2024/2025 Scholar in Residence whose studio will be open for visitors during the Open House.

 


You never know what you may come across in-progress in the Manifest studios! There will be hundreds of works on view throughout the building in various states of completion.

 


A view through the historic Arcade at Manifest's new home, the future home of the Manifest Center for the Visual Arts.

Learn about what people do when they spend time at the Manifest Drawing Center
and learn about the plans to transform this magical building into an even more profound
multi-faceted center for the visual arts!
Today, Tomorrow, and the Future We Dream

Starting in mid-2022, Manifest’s Drawing Center settled into its new permanent Central Parkway location (M1) in Cincinnati, Ohio. All the 20-year-old nonprofit's studio programs, including many new ones, are now active daily and expanding! The Center’s role as an alternative for visual arts practice and study, and as a haven for those before, between, or after academic study, has been celebrated across the region for the past two decades, attracting participants of all ages and all walks of life from near and far. It complements Manifest's exhibition program at the gallery which was designed at its founding with equity as a core tenant. Both programs reach an incredibly wide diversity of participants, naturally, organically, and in sync with Manifest's mission to support visual literacy, critical thinking, and skill development while promoting the importance of excellence in visual arts.

Current programs include the Center’s flagship weekly Open non-instructed offerings such as Open Figure Drawing five days a week (including a clothed Sunday morning portrait session); Open Darkroom six times a week; and free STUDY HALL (open creative research studio times,) all serving the creative public, students of art and design, and working artists from the wider Greater Cincinnati region and beyond.

Professionally instructed programs include the ongoing classes: Drawing Essentials, The Figure Series (drawing classes focusing on the human form as subject), The Studio Seminar, and the popular Drawing as Mindfulness, as well as private lessons on a case-by-case basis.

Special visiting artist workshops occur at intervals across the year, with an exciting roster planned across the next several months.

There is a reason why artists visiting from across the U.S. routinely tell us there is nothing quite like Manifest elsewhere. Come see why!

 
email info@manifestvisualarts.org with questions
Free tickets to RSVP are available here.



 

Manifest is supported by sustainability funding from the Ohio Arts Council, and through the generous direct contributions of hundreds of individual supporters and private foundations who care deeply about Manifest's mission for the visual arts.


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tues-fri 12-7pm, sat noon-5pm
closed on sun-mon

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