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Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center - Whim: Works About Play and Spontaneity
Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center - Whim: Works About Play and Spontaneity

Sun, 30 Mar

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Fee: $45 / Prize: $1,000 + Exhibition

Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center - Whim: Works About Play and Spontaneity

Theme: Drawn. The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit original works of art about play, impulse, the fantastic, the fanciful, the mercurial, and the flighty. Open to all traditional and non-traditional...

Time & Location

30 Mar 2025, 11:30 pm

Fee: $45 / Prize: $1,000 + Exhibition

About the event

The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit original works of art about play, impulse, the fantastic, the fanciful, the mercurial, and the flighty. Open to all traditional and non-traditional genre and media, including 2D, 3D, etc.

A whimsical thing is playful. It is unserious in the best way, shrugging off gravitas to remain unencumbered by serious concerns. Whimsy embraces play and forgoes responsibility; whimsy makes light.

Capricious and cruel, curious and joyful, whimsy is a result of instinct, a spasmodic reaction to an itch. If you do something on a whim, you didn’t think about why you’re doing it, but you permit yourself to follow an impulse. Following that desire leads to unconventional results and embraces unpredicted ends. Whimsy builds to the wonderful and the surreal, inspired by flights of fantasy.

Includes honorarium of $50 for each exhibiting artist, and Grand…

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