creative research gallery and drawing center
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FALL OPEN HOUSE

Celebrating the programs and people of the Manifest Drawing Center
with a special showcase of experimental photographic works made in our PICK IT UP, TURN IT OVER
8-week workshop which is a part of the 2024 FotoFocus Biennial (backstories).

Saturday, November 2nd, 4-7pm

3464 Central Parkway (m1)

Free tickets to RSVP are available here

A Sanctuary for the Practice, Learning, and Experience of the Visual Arts.

     

Join us!


Manifest Drawing Center Fall Open House
Saturday, November 2, 2024, 4-7pm

GET FREE TICKETS TO RSVP HERE

 

Manifest will host a fall open house at the Manifest Drawing Center's Central Parkway campus to welcome friends and neighbors from Greater Cincinnati and beyond.

Join us to celebrate the learning, creative exploration, and growing community that has shaped the Drawing Center’s latest season.

With a special focus on a thought-provoking showcase of experimental photography, developed as part of our FotoFocus-sponsored PICK IT UP, TURN IT OVER workshop, this Open House will be a rare chance to meet a great number of our passionate students and instructors in drawing, painting, photography, and even printmaking.

Learn about a range of recent and current programming while you discover more about Manifest’s unparalleled mission and our plans to evolve into the Manifest Center for the Visual Arts in our third decade. Whether you're an artist, an art lover, or simply curious, we invite you to connect with friends—new and old—and fellow creatives to explore the extensive resources we’ve assembled for the benefit of our entire community!

  • The closing reception for Pick It Up, Turn It Over (part of this year’s FotoFocus Biennial) will take place during the Open House, with the instructor and many of the showcased artists on hand to share their works.

  • Studios will be open throughout the building for self-guided visits, including showcases of works by current program participants.

  • Monotype artists will be working from a live model in our Large Studio throughout the evening to promote our future Print Studio.

  • Staff, Board Members, and Volunteers will be on hand for casual conversations to explain the various facets of Manifest, aspects of each program space, and plans for the future.

  • Artwork made by many local artists at the Center will be on view.

  • Manifest's Scholar in Residence, Megan Wolfkill, will have her studio open, and be on hand to meet the public for conversations.

  • Light refreshments will be provided.

  • Parking available on site, on street nearby, with overflow parking kindly offered by our neighbors at DePaul Cristo Rey High School.

  • Enter building through the Drawing Center entrance, east side (parking lot side) of building. Look for this unmistakable feature to find your way:




enter the building under the 'sun and moon' off the main parking lot

 

(email info@manifestvisualarts.org with questions).


 


A view through the historic Arcade at Manifest's new home, the future home of the Manifest Center for the Visual Arts.

 

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Adam Mysock and Peiter Griga chatting with students in the FotoFocus sponsored experimental photography workshop, Pick It Up, Turn It Over in preparation for installation of their works throughout M1.

 


One example of how a photograph can be three-dimensional. A work on view from the Pick It Up, Turn It Over workshop.

 

 


A painting by Megan Wolfkill, recently arrived 2024/2025 Scholar in Residence whose studio will be open for visitors during the Open House.

 

 


Studio shot of painting and model during a weekly Sunday Open Portrait session, by session moderator, Alexandra Franz..

 

Learn about what people do when they spend time at the Manifest Drawing Center
and learn about the plans to transform this magical building into an even more profound
multi-faceted center for the visual arts!
Today, Tomorrow, and the Future We Dream

Starting in mid-2022, Manifest’s Drawing Center settled into its new permanent Central Parkway location (M1) in Cincinnati, Ohio. All the 20-year-old nonprofit's studio programs, including many new ones, are now active daily and expanding! The Center’s role as an alternative for visual arts practice and study, and as a haven for those before, between, or after academic study, has been celebrated across the region for the past two decades, attracting participants of all ages and all walks of life from near and far. It complements Manifest's exhibition program at the gallery which was designed at its founding with equity as a core tenant. Both programs reach an incredibly wide diversity of participants, naturally, organically, and in sync with Manifest's mission to support visual literacy, critical thinking, and skill development while promoting the importance of excellence in visual arts.

Current programs include the Center’s flagship weekly Open non-instructed offerings such as Open Figure Drawing five days a week (including a clothed Sunday morning portrait session); Open Darkroom six times a week; and free STUDY HALL (open creative research studio times,) all serving the creative public, students of art and design, and working artists from the wider Greater Cincinnati region and beyond.

Professionally instructed programs include the ongoing classes: Drawing Essentials, The Figure Series (drawing classes focusing on the human form as subject), The Studio Seminar, and the popular Drawing as Mindfulness, as well as private lessons on a case-by-case basis.

Special visiting artist workshops occur at intervals across the year, with an exciting roster planned across the next several months.

There is a reason why artists visiting from across the U.S. routinely tell us there is nothing quite like Manifest elsewhere. Come see why!

 
email info@manifestvisualarts.org with questions
Free tickets to RSVP are available here.



 

Manifest is supported by sustainability funding from the Ohio Arts Council, and through the generous direct contributions of hundreds of individual supporters and private foundations who care deeply about Manifest's mission for the visual arts.


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closed on sun-mon

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