Welcome to the Social Art Award 2025 – Online Gallery!
🌊 Dear friends of art and transformation, 🌊
A heartfelt thank you to all artists and creatives who submitted their powerful works for this year’s Social Art Award under the theme: “Planetary Healing – Blue Tribes for Ocean Health.” Your inspiring visions speak to ocean restoration, biodiversity, and reimagining our coexistence with all life forms on Earth.
After receiving 922 submissions from across all continents, and concluding a very active public voting phase, the Social Art Award now enters its next chapter:
🔹 What’s next?
The professional jury panel is currently reviewing and selecting the TOP 100 entries that will be featured in the official Social Art Award 2025 book. In parallel, the two public voting winners will move forward as wildcards into the final jury round.
🔹 Coming up:
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Shortlisted artists (TOP 10) will be announced by mid-June.
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Winners of the Social Art Award 2025 will be revealed at our Online Award Ceremony on July 2, 2025.
We invite you to stay connected as we celebrate the power of Social Art to drive dialogue, awareness, and collective transformation.
Let’s continue to amplify art as a force for Planetary Healing.
Keys to Open the Beginning Before the End
Beth Krensky
Everything passes and everything stays, but our thing is to pass, pass by making paths, paths over the sea. Antonio Machado, Proverbs and Songs, 1912 Long before humans inhabited the earth, primeval oceans existed. The elemental force of water has both sustained living beings and has shaped the ground upon which we stand. This piece contains keys to unlock our memories and connections to the beginning of our own, or planetary, time. The piece both references and was created by the ancient force of water. The keys are composed of bits of organic detritus that once lived in various oceans. The pieces of sea fans, coral, and plant life have been smoothed by the tides and sand. These elements are combined with antique skeleton keys through an electroplating process. They are a reminder to us of what has come before our species and what may be there after our demise. Scientific data supports that we are in the middle of a 6th mass extinction on earth due to the actions of humans. Perhaps these keys can open our connection to the seas so that we might save them, and us. 1. Rosenberg, K. et. al. (2019) Decline of North American Avifauna, In Science, 19 Sep 2019 • Vol 366, Issue 6461 • pp. 120-124
Everything passes and everything stays, but our thing is to pass, pass by making paths, paths over the sea. Antonio Machado, Proverbs and Songs, 1912 Long before humans inhabited the earth, primeval oceans existed. The elemental force of water has both sustained living beings and has shaped the ground upon which we stand. This piece contains keys to unlock our memories and connections to the beginning of our own, or planetary, time. The piece both references and was created by the ancient force of water. The keys are composed of bits of organic detritus that once lived in various oceans. The pieces of sea fans, coral, and plant life have been smoothed by the tides and sand. These elements are combined with antique skeleton keys through an electroplating process. They are a reminder to us of what has come before our species and what may be there after our demise. Scientific data supports that we are in the middle of a 6th mass extinction on earth due to the actions of humans. Perhaps these keys can open our connection to the seas so that we might save them, and us. 1. Rosenberg, K. et. al. (2019) Decline of North American Avifauna, In Science, 19 Sep 2019 • Vol 366, Issue 6461 • pp. 120-124