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.
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 decline of arts in education is not an isolated occurrence. For years the arts have been de-prioritized in primary and secondary education, and it would seem that the humanities in general are an endangered species. Yet daily we see proof of the desperate need for the critical and creative thinking and true cultural literacy such programs foster.
The winner took home took home the top prize and $1,000 as the winner of the East Walnut Hills gallery’s new-look Grand Jury Award process.
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.
Art should be about helping you look at things through a different lens and this week’s events do that and more, so I need not say more. Go, see differently and thank me later.
