INDA 10: International Drawing Annual 10

International Deadline: December 31, 2014 - Highly regarded Manifest Creative Research Gallery announces "INDA 10", a juried annual publication of works of recent contemporary drawing. The International Drawing Annual is open to any artist submitting original works of art or design created within the past three years. Artists, designers, illustrators, professionals, and students in all disciplines are encouraged to submit.

The award-winning International Drawing Annual is an extension and merging of Manifest's Drawing Center, Press, and Gallery programs. Its goal is to support the recognition, documentation, and publication of excellent, current, and relevant works of drawing of all kinds from around the world.

As this is a Book project, works that are not otherwise available (i.e. physically) may still be submitted for consideration. All that is required of accepted artists is a print-quality hi-res digital image of accepted works. All included artists receive a complimentary copy of the finished book.

ELIGIBILITY
Manifest is eager to receive works of drawing in a wide range of applications (technical, graphic, fine art, design, architectural, digital, illustration, etc.) with the qualification being that artwork submitted is representative of high quality "drawing.

AWARDS & CASH PRIZES
First, Second, and Third Place awards for works will be decided by the jury committee. Each award winner will have a brief artist's statement included in the publication. There will be three cash prizes of $1200, $500, and $300 for first, second, and third place winners.

MEDIA
Open to any media applicable to the practice of drawing including but by no means limited to traditional drawing media. Printmaking, digital/new media, photography, sculpture, painting, installation, etc., are all possibly valid.

ESSAYS and other drawing-related writings
Manifest calls for scholarly, critical, and creative writing for publishing it each of its three publication projects.

JURY & CURATOR
Manifest's selection process involves a complex two-part system. This exhibit will be juried by an anonymous several-member panel of professional and academic advisors with a broad range of expertise relative to art and design.

PUBLICATION
Each artist/author selected for inclusion in the INDA will receive one complimentary copy of the publication. In 2011, the INDA 5 was awarded a national silver medal award from the Independent Publishers Association in their New York City ceremony, in which other major arts institutions such as the Whitney Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art have competed. Manifest's books are distributed to bookstores across the country, including museum bookstores, and are available through Amazon.com as well as at Manifest Gallery and on the Manifest website. Arts patrons, artists, professors, and art students around the world collect our publications. The books are offered at an academic discount to professors, students, and institutions of learning around the world.

ENTRY
Visit Manifest Gallery for complete info and to enter online. Manifest accepts only digital images/files for consideration.

About
Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization located in East Walnut Hills in Cincinnati, Ohio. We serve as a venue for the display and experience of insightful, thought provoking art and design, and functions as a hub for creative research and innovation at all levels of artistic endeavor.