Manifest enhances the role of art and design in society by cultivating and focusing the transformative power of creativity in the visual arts. Manifest benefits people in the global and local community, including professionals, students, and the public, by creating quality-centered experiences focused on contemporary visual arts and related activities in the context of creative exploration.

Manifest Gallery serves 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.

Manifest Drawing Center promotes, features, and explores drawing as a rich and culturally significant art form through the pursuit of scholarly activities.

Manifest Press documents the organization's activities through well-designed publications and investigates and implements methods for making works of art and design in limited but accessible editions for public availability in collaboration with professionals and students.