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Calls for Entry  |  Artist Residency  |  Internships  |  Paid Positions |  Download the Full Season Opportunities Poster 

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

EXHIBITING ARTIST HONORARIA
Expanding support for exhibiting artists

Each season 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. The Grand Jury Award format results in the awarding of $1,000 to one work during each of our nine exhibition periods.

 

 

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 11,000 works by more than 4,500 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 made possible largely by individual donations small and large from across the country and beyond to our Annual Fund.

  Exhibition Opportunities   |  Season 23 - Gallery Exhibits running Sept. 2026 – August 2027

Some upcoming exhibitions have deadlines extended by a few weeks as indicated below.
(Entries will be accepted until the listing is removed on this page.)
Show Period 1 - (September 25 - October 23, 2026) — SEASON OPENER

THE SWEEP OF TIME:
Beyond the Horizon
Lens-Based Work Exploring the Arc of Time
Extended Deadline: July 19, 2026

In a moment of persistent turbulence, this exhibition calls for lens-based works which affirm art's role as a stabilizing force—one that fosters clarity, patience, and a deeper sense of orientation within time. This is a participating venue exhibition of the 2026 FotoFocus Biennial, The Long View.

ENTRY INFO

 

 

 


PROJECT JURIES UNDERWAY

  • GRAND JURY AWARD for Season 18 (delayed due ot Covid impacts)
  • GRAND JURY AWARD for Season 19 (delayed due ot Covid impacts)
  • GRAND JURY AWARD for Season 22 show period 8
  • 18th Annual NUDE
  • PASTEL
  • VELVET
  • SOLO PROPOSALS FOR SEASON 23


RECENTLY NOTIFIED OF RESULTS

  • GRAND JURY AWARD for Season 22 show period 7
  • SUB(SCAPE)
  • LAND(SCAPE)
  • 20th ANNUAL MASTER PIECES

 

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...
About the Manifest Peer Jury and Curatorial Process


Manifest is a 501(c)(3) charitable nonprofit founded and operated by artists for artists. Since its launch in 2004 Manifest's exhibits and publications have featured over 10,000 works by more than 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.


ALL SEASON 22 OPPORTUNITIES
SEASON 22 POSTER AND FULL SCHEDULE FOR 2025-2026

Each season Manifest sends an opportunities poster like this one to over 400 academic institutions across the U.S. Our new Season 22 poster is linked for download at left. It includes all Manifest artist opportunities for the season through August 2026.

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.


  Paid Positions - Staff

MANIFEST IS HIRING!

Development Manager - Part Time Hybrid

Manifest doesn't need someone to learn fundraising on the job. We need someone who already knows how, and who wants to put that expertise to work for something worth believing in. Details at the link:

 

INFO

 




 

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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