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EX NIHILO: A Call for Works About the Space Between

Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center   /   Deadline: 01/25/26

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The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit works of art about the power of negative space, margins and gutters, chasms, quietude, emptiness, stillness, and all things in the unnamable in-between. Open to all traditional and non-traditional genre and media, including 2D, 3D, etc.

When we pay attention to the stillness, we become aware of the quiet within ourselves. When we look into the void, it draws us in. Absence—negative space—becomes a place for us to enter a work and close the circle of communication between artwork and viewer. It is the dark matter of visual art, holding everything together.

$45 for up to THREE entries submitted. $5 per each additional entry.


Includes honorarium of $50 for each exhibiting artist, and Grand Jury Award of $1,000 for one jury-selected work from among the exhibits on view.

To read more and submit, visit:
https://www.manifestgallery.org/ex_nihilo

Location

Cincinnati, OH

Fees

$45 for up to THREE entries submitted. $5 per each additional entry.

Eligibility

Open Internationally

Awards

Includes honorarium of $50 for each exhibiting artist, and Grand Jury Award of $1,000 for one jury-selected work from among the exhibits on view.

Contact Information

Jason Franz
2727 Woodburn Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45206

P: 513-861-3638
W: https://www.manifestgallery.org/ex_nihilo
E: info@manifestgallery.org