Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center - Imprint: An International Competitive Biennial Exhibit of Printm

The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit original works of contemporary printmaking. Open to all traditional and non-traditional genre and media within the expansive bounds of ‘printmaking’.

Printmaking is an important checkpoint along the road map between the most primitive early cave scrawlings and the ubiquitous photography in everyone’s pocket today. In many ways it is where the Arts meet the Humanities. As a creative discipline it represents the first awakening of the individual’s potential for gaining broad knowledge and wide dissemination of facts, personal opinion, and expression. With this, printmaking might just be the first true form of a ‘social media’.

Some artists are steadfast traditionalists, anchoring themselves in age-old technical methods. Others push the boundaries of the discipline, exploring just what constitutes ‘printmaking’. For this exhibit Manifest takes a fresh look at the media, and now makes it an…