The International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) warmly invites you to submit your work for a special virtual exhibition, “Art and Memory,” presented in conjunction with the 2025 IVLA conference, “The Power of Images in Sacred and Festive Spaces.” This exhibition offers a space to explore how images, visuals, and symbols can capture, preserve, and transform personal and collective memory.

We welcome visual work that delves into the powerful connections between art and memory-whether through personal storytelling, reflections on history, or expressions of cultural identity. This is an opportunity to showcase how images can carry meaning across time, evoke deep emotions, and connect us to places, events and one another. 

We encourage submissions across a wide range of mediums, including two- and three-dimensional artworks, professional and research visualizations, and experimental visual explorations. Whether you are an artist, researcher, or visual storyteller, your contribution can help shape a collective reflection on the enduring resonance and power of memory through image-making.

Let your work become part of a vibrant, international conversation on memory, meaning, and the visual arts!

Timeline:

Submission Open: May 10, 2025

Submission Deadline: June 10, 2025

Submission Notification: July 1, 2025

Entry Fee per Submission/Piece of Work: 

Entry Fee (Non-IVLA members): $15.00 per submission/piece of work

Entry Fee (IVLA members): $10.00 per submission/piece of work

** If you want to submit more than one artwork, you will need to pay the submission fee for each work you submit**

Exhibition Category Description (applicants must self-select):

Studio Practice: visually based projects (2d and 3d)

Professional Practice: projects related to client based or contractual work, non-education or instructional.

Research Practice: visually based projects that are exploratory, experimental, or cross disciplinary.

Application Requirements

Application Requirements

1. Name
2. Location (City, State, Country)
3. Title and institutional affiliation (if applicable)
4. Website and/or social media handle(s)
5. Title of work
6. Medium
7. Category (see above)
8. Description of work (150 words)
9. If the work was part of graduate, post-graduate, and doctorate studies, please include the institutional name and program.
10. If submitting in the professional category, please include the following information as applicable:
11. Institution name and location
12. Publication name, date
13. Client name, location
14. Names, titles, locations of collaborators
15. ONLY ONE PIECE PER SUBMISSION WILL BE CONSIDERED
16. If you upload multiple pieces per submission, your submission will be disqualified.

Image Files and File Naming:

2d work: 1 image

3d work: 4-6 images documenting the entire work as well as selected details

Time based work: 4-6 images of screen captures or stills, 1 image of storyboard

Image files should be in HIGH QUALITY JPEG format. Images should be 300 dpi and no greater than 1600 px on the longest side. Fize size should not exceed 3mb.

File Naming: last name, first name, title of piece (for example: Jones_Mike_Sunset on Broadway.jpg)

Eligibility Criteria

1. Work must have been created in the past 3 years
2. Video and/or audio files of time based work will not be considered. Screen captures, stills, or storyboards of time based work will be considered (4-6 images of the same piece of work.)
3. Use of AI tools must be disclosed and cited. Please include the following information if all or part of your submission is AI generated: description of the prompt, AI tool, version, and date created, site name. (eg: “interior empty warehouse space with natural light” prompt, DALL-E, version 2, OpenAI, 18 March 2024, labs.openai.com/.)