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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The Grand Jury Award All exhibitors during a given season are automatically eligible to be considered for this award. As of fall 2021, in light of the struggles the world has faced during the covid-19 pandemic and in an effort to give back more in support and recognition of artists achieving excellence, Manifest is doubling the amount of this annual award to $5,000. The Grand Jury Award will be 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 after the close of each season. LEARN MORE HERE... |
Manifest is a 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit founded and operated by artists for artists, now in its 18th season. Since its launch in 2004 Manifest's exhibits and publications have featured nearly 10,000 works by nearly 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. |
| Show Period 2 (Nov. 11, - Dec. 9, 2022) |
FOURTH WALL FOURTH WALL is a call for artwork that challenges its borders, its framework, its format, the physical and conceptual space it inhabits. |
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BALANCE BALANCE is a call for artwork about compositional experiments, proofs, challenges overcome or overwhelming, of precarious equilibrium, impossible stability, and the role such concepts play in making compelling meaning through the visual. |
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ARCH. It has been said that architecture may be the ultimate form of art. After all, it is both expressive, informative, and serves as a refuge from the elements. What happens when it becomes the content of other architecture—of the gallery itself? |
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| Show Period 3 (Dec. 16, 2022 - Jan. 13, 2023) |
13th Annual An international competition offering one $5,000 cash award and $1,000 in additional awards to finalists. Including a showcase exhibit featuring the single one prize-winning jury selected work. Open to work of any size, media, or genre made within the past five years. |
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TAPPED 13 (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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IMPRINT IMPRINT calls to artists around the world to submit works of printmaking, and will strive to explore the range of methods and results currently being achieved within the bounds of such processes. |
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BOOK CLUB BOOK CLUB will explore storytelling, imagery & objects about books, and art inspired by works of literature. Open to all media and genre. |
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| Show Period 4 (Jan. 27 - Feb. 24, 2023) |
MIRROR MIRROR is an international call of works made with, featuring, or about mirrors or their effects.This exhibit will be the first in a five-segment, five-space sequential exhibition experience. Open to all visual art media. |
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TABLE TABLE is an international call for works of any media featuring, using, or about Tables and the things that happen there. This exhibit will be the second in a five-segment, five-space sequential exhibition experience. Open to all visual art media. |
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WINDOW WINDOW is an international call for works featuring, using, or about windows, and the worlds they connect. This exhibit will be the third in a five-segment, five-space sequential exhibition experience. Open to all visual art media. |
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BED BED is an international call for works about this sanctuary of humanity. This exhibit will be the fourth in a five-segment, five-space sequential exhibition experience. Open to all visual art media. |
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STAIRS STAIRS is an international call for works about, featuring, or exploring such architectural spaces, and the ideas of moving upwards or downwards through spaces and places. This exhibit will be the fifth in a five-segment, five-space sequential exhibition experience. Open to all visual art media. |
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EXHIBITS-IN-PRINT PHOTOGRAPHY DEADLINE: DECEMBER 31, 2022 |
INPHA 9 $2000 in prizes, with $1200 first prize. A competitive peer-juried award-winning publication of works of photography of all types made since January 1, 2013 (the past ten years). This will be the last opportunity to participate in this publication and award until 2026! |
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CALL FOR WRITING Critical, Philosophical, Creative, or other works related to practices of DRAWING, PAINTING, PHOTOGRAPHY, or the subject of LIGHT. Details on submitting written works to be considered for inclusion in our publications are available here. Writing is featured to supplement the INDA, INPHA, and INPA publications which focus primarily on visual art. |
Manifest Artist Residency (MAR) and Scholar in Residence (SIR) 2022/2023 A year-long free studio residency to support creative research. |
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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 19 poster is linked for download at left. It includes all Manifest artist opportunities for the coming season through August 2023. 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 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. |
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 18th season is funded in
part by a grant from the Josephine S. Russell Charitable Trust, PNC Bank, Trustee. This season's programming is also supported by the generosity of tens of thousands of contributors to the ArtsWave Community Campaign, by a sustainability grant from
the Ohio Arts Council, and through the generous direct contributions of individual supporters and private foundations who care deeply about the visual arts. |
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