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FURNITURE: A Call for Works About Extensions of Architecture

Type: Exhibition Opportunities [View all]
Posted by: Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center
Deadline: Sun, August 17th, 2025

 

The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit works about the objects that make a space suitable for living—about its use, its design, its crafting, or about the events and work in our lives that happen around it..

 

A room is characterized by the furniture and fixtures inside of it. Fixtures tell you where you are. If you see a sink and refrigerator, know you are in the kitchen; a large formal table places you in a dining room. Crown that table with a chandelier and you are in a nice dining room.

Furniture’s aesthetic communicates as much as it functions—an industrial stainless-steel kitchen is easier to keep clean, and its smooth planes and sharp edges communicate exemplary spotlessness. Beds, chairs, and dressers become sites navigated to and around daily as we eat, cook, clean ourselves, organize, work, and rest.

Furniture’s construction is an art, its design a science. It is passed down, bought new, found in antique malls, repaired, refinished. It signifies class, purpose, and it changes features and make-up to suit a type of work done with it. 

 

$45 for up to THREE entries submitted. $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.

 

To read more and apply, visit:

https://www.manifestgallery.org/furniture

Posted on Fri, August 1st, 2025
Expires on Sun, August 17th, 2025

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