ROOTS: An International Exhibit About Family, Connections, & Origins

The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit original works about family, heritage, ancestors—for art about siblings, parents, children, the homes we make, the bonds of care, about where we came from and where we might grow. Open to all traditional and non-traditional genre and media.

Family gives us a sense of culture through the languages used within it, the food cooked, the hierarchies and customs within, the histories and stories told. Family is shared experience, a shared home, a shared ease of being. Family moves beyond mere identity, however—it implies love, support, and a connection with a sense of obligation, in sickness and in health. It certainly includes, but isn’t limited to parentage and progeny. Family is made through the act of care, and we find and give that care in people beyond bonds of tradition. When does friend, does neighbor, become family?

$45 for up to three entries. $5 per each additional entry.

Includes exhibitor 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.