SUMMER OPEN HOUSE + SILENT AUCTION TO BENEFIT TEEN PROGRAM

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!

Celebrating the programs and people of the Manifest Drawing Center with a special showcase of works by our 8th annual Envision Project students and a silent auction of previous Envision Project photographs with proceeds supporting the program’s future and the Joseph A. Stoner Memorial Fund.

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Manifest’s staff and board of directors are delighted to host a summer open house at the Manifest Drawing Center on Central Parkway at the edge of Clifton to welcome the community into the organization’s new permanent home for an updated look at its evolving future vision.

With a special focus on the work of our 2024 Envision Project high school students and much more, this season’s Open House will be a unique chance to meet many of the people benefiting from our organization’s evolution into the Manifest Center for the Visual Arts.

Guests will learn about current programming now active at the Center, discover more about upcoming classes and workshops, and learn about the organization’s mission and vision for its historic property.

Additionally, a large number of exceptional photographs from previous years of the Envision Project will be available for bidding in a silent auction intended to help fund the program's continuation.

— This event will serve as the artists' reception for a display of works made by this year's Envision Project students.

— Guided tours of the facility and studios will be conducted for those interested in a deeper narrated look at 6pm.

— Studios will be open throughout the building for self-guided visits.

— Staff and Volunteers will be on hand to explain the various facets of Manifest, aspects of each program space, and plans for the future.

— Many artworks made on-site by studio participants who attend weekly from as far away as Indianapolis will also be on view throughout the building.

— Light refreshments will be provided.

— Parking will be available on-site and on-street nearby, with overflow parking kindly offered by our neighbors at DePaul Cristo Rey High School.

— Enter the building through the Drawing Center entrance on the east side (parking lot side) of the building.

(email [email protected] with questions or to RSVP optional).

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE OPEN HOUSE HERE

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As of mid-2022, Manifest’s Drawing Center has 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 four days a week (including a Sunday morning portrait session); Open Darkroom for six sessions across five days 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 the next two being led by Asheville, NC-based artist Reuben Negrón (June) and Baltimore, MD-based artist Matt Klos (August).

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!

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