Only 5 Days Left to Submit Your Work to the International Virtual Exhibition: Faces

Artists the countdown has begun. There are only five days left to submit your work to the Women in Arts Network’s international virtual exhibition, Faces. If you’ve been thinking about applying, hesitating, or waiting for the “right moment,” this might be it. Take a pause, look at your work, and ask yourself: What does a face mean to you?

Faces have always held stories. They carry emotion, memory, identity. A face can welcome or guard, reveal or hide. It can belong to someone you love, someone you barely remember, or someone who only exists in your imagination. Sometimes a face shows the truth. Sometimes it protects it.

And that’s exactly what this exhibition invites you to explore.

Faces give you the freedom to capture expressions, emotions, or identities in your own way. Whether literal or symbolic, fleeting or intense, your work can reveal stories, memories, or reflections that only you can share. This is your chance to let those faces come alive through your art. Whatever they are to you; this is your chance to share it.

How You Can Interpret the Theme: Faces?

Because a face is never just a face. They reveal who we are and sometimes hide what we’re not ready to show. They carry joy, grief, history, longing, identity, and all the moments that shape us. Think about the faces in your life the ones you remember clearly, the ones that blurred with time, the ones that haunt you, the ones that comforted you, the ones you wish you could see again. How do these memories find their way into your art? When you draw or sculpt or photograph a face, what are you really capturing the person, the emotion, the truth beneath the expression? And what about the faces you imagine? The ones that appear in your work without a real-life reference, forming from instinct or memory or intuition what part of you are they reflecting?

The beauty of this theme is that it offers endless room to explore. A face doesn’t have to be a perfect portrait. It doesn’t even need to be fully formed. It can appear in your art as a shadow, a blur, a colour palette, a repeated pattern, a fractured shape, or a soft suggestion of identity. Maybe you want to explore the face you show the world versus the face you keep hidden. Maybe you want to reflect cultural identity, generational memory, personal transformation, or emotional truth. Maybe you want to challenge how people look at a face what they assume, what they overlook, what they misunderstand. In your creative world, what does it mean to be seen? What does it mean to look at someone or something deeply? And how does your art help you answer those questions?

About the Exhibition

Women in Arts Network created this exhibition as a space where women-identifying and non-binary artists from all around the world could come together to celebrate creativity, connection, and the universal language of human expression. Faces is a virtual international exhibition which means your work won’t simply be displayed on a wall; it will live and move online, reaching curators, collectors, and audiences across the globe. Your art will be seen by people who might discover a piece of themselves in the expressions you capture, the identities you explore, or the stories you reveal.

Every selected artwork will become part of a thoughtfully curated digital gallery, designed to give each piece room to breathe to let the emotions, the textures, the details, and the quiet truths within your work speak for themselves. This isn’t just an open call; it’s an intimate dialogue between you, your art, and the people who will encounter it in ways you may never expect. And perhaps, just perhaps, your work will stir something in someone a memory of a face they can’t forget, a feeling they once held, or a reflection of who they were, who they are, or who they’re becoming.

Because faces don’t just look back at us.
They connect us.
They remind us.
They move us.

And your art might be the one that helps someone see themselves or the world a little differently.

Who Can Submit

This open call is for all women-identifying and non-binary artists aged 18+ anywhere in the world.
Beginner or established, it doesn’t matter. What matters is your voice your perspective your story.

All mediums are welcome, including:

• Painting
• Drawing
• Photography
• Sculpture
• Digital art
• Textiles
• Mixed media
• Collage
• Anything visual that tells a story

If you create, you belong here.

Why You Should Submit

Have you ever experienced the moment when someone truly sees your work not just with their eyes, but with their heart? That is exactly what this exhibition is about. Faces is an opportunity to create that connection, to let your art speak and to let the world listen. How might someone recognize themselves, a memory, or an emotion in the faces you create? What story could your work awaken in someone else?

If your artwork is selected, it will be featured in a beautifully curated international virtual gallery, where thousands of viewers, art enthusiasts, and industry professionals will have the chance to experience your vision firsthand. And if you want to go even deeper, you can choose the Artist Interview Add-On. This gives you a platform to share the story behind your work why you created it, the process, the inspiration, and the meaning it holds. These interviews are shared and promoted across the Women in Arts Network’s website and social media, allowing your voice to travel alongside your art.

Because sometimes the face on the canvas tells the story, and sometimes the artist’s voice needs to be heard as well.

Submission Details

• Deadline: November 25th, 2025. Yes, it’s the final countdown!
• Fee: $3 total ($1 per image)
• Optional Add-On: $12 for an Artist Interview

Here’s how to submit:

1. Fill out the application form with your details.
2. Upload your artwork (and choose the interview add-on if you’d like).
3. Selected artists will be notified within three weeks of the deadline.

The Faces virtual exhibition will go live a month after selections are announced, bringing together artists worldwide in a celebration of creativity, storytelling, and the many ways faces can inspire and connect us.

Are You Waiting for the “Right Moment” to Submit?

Five days isn’t much, but it’s enough time to make a meaningful choice. Think about the artwork that has stayed in your mind the one that carries a feeling you never quite put into words. Think about the sketchbook page you always flip back to, the image you keep editing, the sculpture you keep touching up, the portrait that feels like it’s holding a secret only you understand. What if this is the moment to let that piece step out into the light? What if saying “yes” to this opportunity becomes a turning point in your artistic path? And what if the face you create today becomes the one someone remembers tomorrow?

Your art carries a voice. Your perspective matters. Your creativity has the power to reveal something true, gentle, raw, or transformative. Faces hold infinite stories and one of those stories could be yours.ke this don’t come around every day.