Compete Roots: An International Exhibit About Family, Connections, & Origins
Opportunity Description
International Deadline: September 22, 2024 – The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites artists to submit original works for our upcoming exhibition, “Roots”. This is a call for works about family, heritage, ancestors—for art about siblings, parents, children, the homes we make, the bonds of care, about where we came from and where we might grow.
Family gives us a sense of culture through the languages used within it, the food cooked, the hierarchies and customs within, the histories and stories told. Family is shared experience, a shared home, a shared ease of being. Family moves beyond mere identity, however—it implies love, support, and a connection with a sense of obligation, in sickness and in health. It certainly includes, but isn’t limited to parentage and progeny. Family is made through the act of care, and we find and give that care in people beyond bonds of tradition. When does friend, does neighbor, become family?
Who do you accept into your family? Who has been dismissed? Have you made a new family? When the bonds of family fracture, the damage is compound and brutal. Are they healed through being splinted together, or by amputation? Who do we owe our care to? Who do we find our resemblance in? What have our traditions and histories done for us, and what do we do to continue them, to contribute to them, to pass on or better them? And how are these questions reflected in art?
On display December 13, 2024 – January 10, 2025.
ELIGIBILITY
ROOTS 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. Notifications sent by email to all entrants November 4th.
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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