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Land(scape) and Sub(scape) / Calls & Submissions
Deadline
April 20, 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 exploring engagement with landscape as condition, as the physical and perceptual space that holds human experience. Open to all traditional and non-traditional genre and media.
Landscape is not simply scenery. It is the space the Earth provides.
It is ground beneath our feet and atmosphere above us. It is distance, scale, horizon, shelter, exposure, terrain, and boundary. It is the vast field in which life unfolds, shaped by forces geological and human alike.
Landscape is where we test proportion and perspective. It is where we encounter scale beyond the self. It is where we recognize that our limits are bound to the limits of the ground we inhabit, and that as living parts of this sphere from which we emerged, our fates are inseparable from it.
$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.
Additionally, Manifest invites visual artists and designers to submit works that examine what underlies the visible: the structural, psychological, geological, social, mechanical, or conceptual systems that sustain, complicate, or destabilize the world above.
There is the world you can see, and there is everything beneath it: the systems that support it, the feelings behind it, what you infer, what you suspect, and what may be kept hidden from you.
Beneath every surface lie systems, structures, tensions, histories, and intentions. Foundations anchor cities. Root systems sustain forests. Infrastructures distribute power and water. Emotional currents shape behavior. Motives influence action. Much of what determines experience remains out of view, yet without these underlying structures, everything would collapse.
$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.
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