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Subtractivity / Calls & Submissions
Deadline
February 16, 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 made by or about a subtractive process. Open to all traditional and non-traditional genre and media, including 2D, 3D, etc.
Reduction, as a principle, is about revelation. The process of clearing away excess clarifies what is essential. You remove the mass, the noise, the material that isn’t, and discover what is. In this way, reduction asserts economy as a primary principle in achieving successful art, making removal an intentional creative act rather than one of correction.
SUBTRACTIVITY is a call to artists for works made by or about a subtractive process—carving, etching, scraping, erasing, cutting, or any process or concept involving subtraction, deletion, or removal.
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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