International Face Equality Week 12-19 May 2025

My Face is a Masterpiece, My Body is a Masterpiece.

All faces and all bodies are masterpieces. Each illustrates a unique and important story. Now that’s what we call art.  

Every masterpiece tells a story. What’s yours? 

The stories of the facial and visible difference community are often portrayed with pity and prejudice. When this is a vibrant and diverse community that should be seen, heard, and celebrated. Especially in art form.  

We’re calling upon anyone and everyone to get involved in face equality week, whether you have a facial difference or not. Come and celebrate what makes you unique and get creative about self-expression, all whilst helping us to champion a world of equity and inclusion. 

Society portrays a narrow perception of beauty and unobtainable standards which perpetuate insecurities. These ‘ideals’ aren’t representative of the wonderfully diverse world we live in, that’s why we’re creating space to celebrate all masterpieces.

Help to make face equality a reality by using your creativity as a tool for social change. Let’s use art to celebrate visible and facial differences this face equality week.  

Together we can celebrate talents, not tired tropes, champion skills on screens, amplify artists who don’t ‘fit the mould’ and elevate art that reflects visible difference. 

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. – Vincent Van Gogh

Art transcends barriers. Whether or not you have a visible difference, unleash your creativity as a powerful tool for social change; from drawing and painting, to photography, poetry or make up, the ideas are endless. 

You can fundraise for FEI – use our fundraising toolkit.

Here’s some ideas of how you can get involved. Unleash your creativity with anything you choose:  

• Host a get together with friends and family. Whether from 2 to 200 people, share something you like about another person and start conversation about appearance and society.
   
• Host an online or in-person exhibition or event to support face equality. Why not try a sip and paint?
   
• Gather your colleagues for a life-drawing session in support of face equality (don’t worry, no nudity required!). 

• Run an art class or school assembly to spark discussions about visible difference.
   
• Use ‘#MyFaceIsAMasterpiece or #MyBodyIsAMasterpiece’ to share your story—or amplify someone else’s. Whether you’re an ally or someone living with a facial or visible difference, join the movement. 

My face is a masterpiece because it’s unique and it’s something that I’ve had to learn to love and I think that journey is so beautiful. Now that I can see that, it makes me appreciate beauty that I haven’t seen before. – Bo