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Manifest's nonprofit projects are open to all artists, ages, backgrounds, and levels of achievement, unless noted otherwise. Artists of diverse backgrounds and geographic regions are encouraged to apply. (see the reach and inclusion of Manifest's projects here) |
EXHIBITION INFO FOR ARTISTS
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EXHIBITING ARTIST HONORARIA Starting in Manifest's 20th season (as of fall 2023), every participating exhibitor is awarded a $50 honorarium. 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. In fall of 2023, to mark our transition into Manifest's 20th season as an arts organization by artists, for artists, we made a change. Starting at that time the Grand Jury Award format results in the awarding of $1,000 to one work during each of our nine exhibition periods. This expanded our support from one to up to nine artists each year, and allocated 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, and by professors and students for professors and students, now at the start of its third decade. Since its launch in 2004 Manifest's exhibits and publications have featured over 10,000 works by more than4,000 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. |
| Show Period 5 (March 7 - April 4, 2025) |
TOTALLY OPEN Paralleling our Regional Showcase, but open to the world, this exhibition offers applicants the chance to determine, by way of their submissions, what the jurors and our curatorial staff will discover as one or more themes running through the resulting exhibition. Utilizing a reduced entry fee to lower barriers to access, this call is TOTALLY OPEN—completely open to any type of artwork, any media, theme, and idea. OPEN CALL: no media or thematic restrictions. |
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| Show Period 6 (April 18 - May 16, 2025) |
DRAWN 2025 DRAWN calls for artists to submit works of drawing in any media relevant to the practice (including non-traditional approaches), any style, and any genre (fine art, illustration, conceptual, realism, etc.). |
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SLEEP SLEEP is a call for art about rest, dreaming, and where and when we can lay down our heads. |
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WEATHER WEATHER is a call for works about weather phenomena, metaphor, atmosphere, climate, and about how we experience, map, and understand it. |
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| Show Period 7 (May 30 - June 27, 2025) |
WATCHING “Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” S. Weil WATCHING is a call for works about looking and being looked at. If we are not observed, do we even exist? |
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RITES OF PASSAGE A competitive survey of works by artists attaining or scheduled to receive an undergraduate degree in art or design in 2023, 2024, |
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ENTRY INFO |
MAGNITUDE 7 A competitive international OPEN CALL for works of any media, genre, or style no larger than 7 inches in size. Presentation devices such as mats, frames, and mounts do not factor into the size limitation. No media or thematic restrictions. |
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ENTRY INFO |
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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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Each season Manifest sends an opportunities poster like this one to over 400 academic institutions across the U.S. Our new Season 21 poster is linked for download at left. It includes all Manifest artist opportunities for the season through August 2025. 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 hundreds of individual supporters and private foundations who care deeply about Manifest's mission for the visual arts. |
Contribute to our Annual Fund |
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