WEATHER: A Call for Works About Weather

The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit original works about weather phenomena, metaphor, atmosphere, climate, and about how we experience, map, and understand it. Open to all traditional and non-traditional genre and media, including 2D, 3D, etc.

Weather is the data for projecting potential futures, calculated in chance. We forecast it as best we can to plan everything from agriculture, to travel, to how we dress in the morning. Aesthetically, intimately, weather is the sensation of humid air on our skin during a summer evening, and the muffled quietude of a silencing snowfall. The question of a setting’s “atmosphere” is partly a question about weather, and even when it isn’t, we use it as metaphor anyways: a “cloudy expression” a “stormy mood”, an “arid, dry tone”. The language of flooding, gusting, billowing, drizzling and freezing has an emotive power that evokes the actual power of nature.

$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.