The May 9 event celebrates the completion of projects such as a printmaking studio wing. The addition brings the organization closer to consolidating its programs under one roof for the first time in its 22-year history.
Movers & Makers asked leaders across the local visual arts landscape to nominate an artist they think should be recognized as an inspiration to the community.
A June 7 celebration will mark the start of Phase One of “Manifest Emerges,” a $3.2 million capital project aimed at transforming the organization’s historic facility into a fully realized Manifest Center for the Visual Arts.
The Cincinnati-based nonprofit, needs artists for its upcoming exhibitions, “Whim” and “Textuality,” which will both run from July 11 to Aug. 8.
Throughout season 21, Manifest will award $1,000 to one work during each of its nine exhibition periods.
Funding will go toward the renovation and preservation of Manifest’s historic campus on Central Parkway. It will also support a range of arts-based programming.
The publications are based on two of Manifest’s regular surveys of contemporary art from around the world, the International Drawing Annual and International Painting Annual.
Manifest has offered the prize and solo exhibit to talented visual artists for the past 14 years.
In honor of its 20th year, Manifest recognized arts educators from across Greater Cincinnati ahead of the upcoming start of the 2023 school year.
Each of the teachers also received a considerable prize as a thank-you for work.
As a kid, Jason Franz wanted to be an artist. “But … I had it in my mind that if you were going to be an artist, you have to model nude for one another in art school. And I was dead set against being naked in front of anybody.”
