Compete Sleep – A Call for Works About Sleep, Rest, and Dreaming
Opportunity Description
International Deadline: January 4, 2025 – The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit original works exploring rest, dreaming, and where and when we can lay down our heads.
We need to rest. There is no way to avoid the simple fact that despite our desire or need to be awake and working, eventually the need to lie down will overcome us against our will if ignored long enough. When we do sleep, we are better for that rest.
There are times in our life where our connection to sleep is acrimonious. We fight it off with caffeine, light, or music until we are shaking and delirious. Toddlers unwilling to nap and miss out of life do this, as do workers staying awake for a shift. Other times we court it desperately, trying to meet it within fleeting windows between work and childcare, swallowing medicines, meditation, and chamomile while playing white noise at a low thrum.
When we sleep we get to dream, our brain pulling apart and rearranging the desires and events of our lives into surreal and revealing collages. Even while conscious, the leisure to let our minds wander without a specific task permits great creativity and insight. Dormancy isn’t necessarily idleness—for seeds, dormancy is a what allows them to spread and survive, and a fallow field leads to rejuvenation.
On display April 18 – May 16, 2025.
ELIGIBILITY
SLEEP is open to everyone internationally. The only limitation is that entries must represent original works which address the broad theme described above. Open to all traditional and non-traditional genre and media.
HONORARIA
Each participating exhibitor will receive a $50 honorarium. The honorarium has no strings attached (other than full participation in the relevant exhibit). It is a modest thank-you for collaborating with us as we chart our future.
$9,000.00 GRAND JURY 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 of, representing the ‘best of the best’ shown in Manifest’s many exhibits that year.
The Grand Jury Award also awards $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… see more.
JURY & CURATOR
This exhibit will be juried by an anonymous several member panel of professional and academic advisors with a broad range of expertise relative to art and design. The jury will then pass along their recommendations to the exhibit curator who will make the final selections from the jury-approved pool.
PUBLICATION
Manifest Press will produce a high quality hard-cover publication documenting each entire season of exhibits, artists, and works shown. This continues Manifest’s commitment to long-term documentation and dissemination of our projects, and the expansion of physical exhibits into a broader geography and time frame, while also bringing all exhibits together under one cover each year to create a better product which will be more valuable to the public, teachers, libraries, and exhibiting artists.
ENTRY FEE
$45 for up to three entries submitted. $5 per each additional entry.
APPLY ONLINE
Visit Manifest Gallery online to Apply.
SALES
Artworks are not required to be for sale in order to be included in our exhibitions. All work, unless indicated as not for sale (NFS), will be available for sale during exhibit. Manifest Gallery will retain a commission of 30% of the sale price on artwork sold during the exhibition.
INSURANCE
Works will be insured while on gallery premises. Insurance covers theft, vandalism, damage caused by gallery patrons or staff.
Visit Manifest Gallery online for complete details and to Apply.
About:
Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization located in East Walnut Hills in Cincinnati, Ohio. We serve as a venue for the display and experience of insightful, thought provoking art and design, and functions as a hub for creative research and innovation at all levels of artistic endeavor.
Manifest Gallery
2727 Woodburn Avenue
East Walnut Hills
Cincinnati, Ohio 45206
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