Speaker: Jason Franz, Executive Director, Manifest Gallery     

Jason Franz, co-founder and executive director of the nonprofit Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, will discuss Manifest’s rich programming across a compelling 20-year history and its exciting future as it transitions into the Manifest Center for the Visual Arts at its new campus on Central Parkway. The presentation will include plans for Manifest’s 92-year-old French Normandy-style building and the studios that support skills and showcase works hearkening back to the golden age of Cincinnati. It will be like stepping back in time!   
    
Manifest is an internationally recognized award-winning nonprofit organization founded in 2004 by artists dedicated to creating high quality experiences of visual art through exhibition, publication, artist-support, and education championing the importance of visual literacy, critical thinking, and skill development. The organization continues to be operated by an all-artist staff to this day.