About this Event
Saturday, December 12 | 6–8 PM
The Manifest Center for the Visual Arts
3464 Central Parkway, Cincinnati
We're not finished. But we'd love to have you come see what's taking shape.
Manifest's new home is coming to life, and we invite you to celebrate an exciting milestone in its transformation!
Explore our newly reconfigured (and newly heated!) drawing and painting wing, discover new classroom spaces, view artwork created during the day's visiting artist workshop and other Manifest programs, and visit our printmaking wing to learn more about the creative processes taking place there.
You'll also get a glimpse of what's still ahead as the Manifest Center for the Visual Arts continues to emerge.
Join us for a relaxed evening of discovery, conversation, light refreshments, and a chance to experience the next chapter of Manifest as it unfolds.
Free and open to all.
Parking will be available on-site, thanks to the generous donors who supported Phase One renovations. Additional parking available on Clifton Hills Avenue, with primary overflow parking kindly offered by our neighbors at DePaul Cristo Rey High School.
(email [email protected] with questions).
Note: Our visiting artist workshop, instructed by Aidan Baker-Hill from Brooklyn, New York, will have works in-progress on view in the studio.
Pictured at top: The newly emerging Mary Perin Taft Mahler Drawing Studio (and Green Roof) in progress.
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ABOUT MANIFEST AND ITS EMERGING NEW HOME
Since mid-2022, Manifest's Drawing Center has been operating at its permanent Central Parkway location (M1), even as the building continues its transformation into the Manifest Center for the Visual Arts. The move has allowed Manifest to expand its role as a haven for visual arts practice, learning, and creative research.
For more than 23 years, Manifest has served artists, educators, students, and the public from across Greater Cincinnati and beyond, offering opportunities for artistic development before, between, and after formal academic study. Through its exhibition, education, publication, and artist-support programs, Manifest advances visual literacy, critical thinking, and skill development while promoting the importance of excellence in the visual arts.
Today, the Drawing Center offers an expanding range of programs, including Open Figure Drawing five days a week, Open Darkroom sessions, free Study Hall, ongoing courses in drawing, printmaking, and art history, and special workshops with visiting artists from across the country. Together, these programs welcome people of all ages and backgrounds, creating opportunities for serious artistic engagement, exploration, and community.
There is a reason why visiting artists routinely tell us there is nothing quite like Manifest elsewhere.
The ongoing transformation of M1 represents the next major step in this journey. As the project progresses, Manifest is creating a unified home for its exhibition, education, publication, and artist-support programs, with new galleries, studios, an Art Reference Library, Art Economy Lab, and other resources designed to enrich the region's cultural life.
Now, halfway through this much-anticipated transformation, we can't wait to share what we've accomplished and what's still to come!
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Manifest Drawing Center, 3464 Central Parkway, Cincinnati, United States
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