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Counterform: Works About Reactions / Calls & Submissions
Deadline
August 2, 2026
Organization Name: Manifest Research Gallery and Drawing Center
Organization Location: Cincinnati, OH
Type: Calls & Submissions
Fee: $45+
The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit original works about the shape, size, and proportion of our responses: to culture, to form, to action, to an extended hand, to conversation, to intentions. Open to all traditional and non-traditional genre and media.
Things happen. Good and bad, large and small, events occur and demand something of us. Our responses to what happens shape the major arcs of our lives.
A counterform is a shape defined by what surrounds it—the space that exists only because something else acted first. COUNTERFORM is a call for work about reactions: the response to feedback on a first draft, the knee-jerk flinch when a nerve is struck, the form a thing takes because of what pressed against it.
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.
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