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Ex Nihilo: Works About the Space Between / Calls & Submissions
Deadline
January 25, 2026
Organization Name: Manifest Creative 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 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.
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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