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12th Annual MASTER PIECES

International MFA/MA Exhibition

Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center   /   Deadline: 05/07/18

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Exhibit Dates: July 13 - August 10, 2018

Every year Manifest offers an opportunity just for graduate students to exhibit at our gallery in Cincinnati. This twelfth installment of the Master Pieces project will continue to reveal the intensity and professionalism of students working towards their terminal academic degree in the field of art or design. Often the most exceptional work comes out of these artists' immersion in their culture of study and intellectual pursuit. Manifest's goal, therefore, is to select works on an annual basis that in the truest sense of the word are contemporary masterpieces – in other words works that set the standard of quality that the artist is expected to maintain throughout his or her professional career and justify the degree of Master. The full-color hardcover Manifest Exhibition Annual publication for the season will serve as a visual documentation of these artists' own benchmarks for years to come.

THREE of Manifest's exhibit spaces will be devoted to the Master Pieces 12 exhibition.

Location

Manifest Gallery2727 Woodburn AvenueCincinnati, OH 45206

Fees

40.00

Eligibility

Master Pieces is open to current MFA/MA students or MFA/MA graduates since January 2017. If in doubt of eligibility contact Manifest to inquire. All entries must represent original works of art or design.

Requirements

Open to any and all traditional and non-traditional visual arts media, genre, subject matter, and content. There is no thematic guideline. Media may include but is not limited to: drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, installation, video, etc.

Awards

CASH AWARD POTENTIAL
The annual Manifest Grand Jury Prize will result in the awarding of one cash prize ($2500) to a single work selected as the 'best of the entire season'. Winner will be determined by a final end-of-year jury from among a pool of all top-scoring works from each exhibit's jury process across the current exhibition season. Details on the Manifest Grand Jury Prize can be found at http://www.manifestgallery.org/about/awards/grand_jury_prize/index.html.

Evaluation Criteria

Manifest's selection process involves a complex two-part system. This exhibit will be juried by an anonymous 5-9 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. (Read more about Manifest's jury process here.)

Our carefully assembled juries change from project to project, and as a body have no collective predisposition towards any particular kind or style of art.

Contact Information

Erin Corley
2727 Woodburn Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45206

P: 513-861-3638
W: http://www.manifestgallery.org/masterpieces/
E: erin@manifestgallery.org