The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit original works of art about clothing, things that adorn or extend the body, and anything we wear. Open to all traditional and non-traditional genre and media, including 2D, 3D, etc. First and foremost, we dress as a matter of utility: to protect ourselves from nature, to augment or facilitate our physical abilities, and to cover the parts of ourselves we do not wish for others to touch or see. Clothing, however, is a language all its own. The nuances of what we wear are a way to tell the world, and affirm to ourselves, what we are. The quote from RuPaul, “We are born naked, and the rest is drag”, is a pop-cultural sentiment that contains a deep truth: A kid’s dress-up box doesn’t just contain costumes, it contains identities. What do you put on in the morning? What does it say about you? What are these things that we wear made from, what do they do, what do they say, and where do they go? $45 for up to three entries. $5 per each additional entry. 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.
