Welcome to the Social Art Award 2025 – Online Gallery!
We are grateful for the many powerful contributions from artists across the globe. The selected works reflect the diversity of contemporary social art practices and address urgent issues such as climate and water crises, social and economic inequality, migration, conflict, discrimination, and the protection of human and more-than-human life.
Below you will find the submissions from the edition of 2024/2025 that passed the initial jury round. The Online Gallery offers public visibility to these works and supports dialogue around their themes; it does not replace the final jury decision.
Thank you to all artists for sharing your inspiring and committed work. We invite you to explore the gallery and engage with the perspectives shaping the Social Art Award 2025.
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In Deep Water - Rising
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Title:
In Deep Water - Rising
In Deep Water - Rising
Author:
Jane Ingram Allen
Jane Ingram Allen
Description:
In Deep Water - Rising" is a collaborative art installation focused on water and climate change, environmental issues that are especially affecting Northern California communities. Two Northern California artists, one a papermaker (Jane Ingram Allen) and one a printmaker (Jami Taback), have worked together since August 2021 on this collaborative project, and even in that short time the climate crisis has intensified. To heal the earth and raise awareness the artists present a site-specific installation with community participation that will focus on rising waters and increasing threats from climate change. While Northern California is suffering through a long period of extreme drought and lack of water along with horrific wildfires, climate change is also causing sea level rise along the Pacific Coast and around the world. This installation will raise the alarm about rising waters and rising temperatures and a world in crisis. At the same time, it projects hope for the future using sustainable methods and materials. The artwork shows the terrible beauty and dichotomy of water as it can become out of control and raging, while at other times it is calm and refreshing. Time is running out and the threat rising; we are “in deep water”, but there is hope that we can make important changes and heal the earth. The collaborative artwork produced for this project incorporates several non-toxic printmaking processes on handmade paper created by the artists using plant fibers and a variety of papermaking techniques. Both artists are committed to using earth-friendly techniques and processes. The printed handmade papers are then ripped and burned and joined with natural thread to create a two-sided, multi-part, modular, large-scale art installation to immerse viewers in these immense and pressing problems. It induces a visceral sense of imminent crisis that warns us to change quickly and dramatically. The installation can be viewed from inside as well as outside, and the suspended panels create shadows as wells as paths viewers can walk through to experience the beauty and disaster of the climate emergency. The artwork is primarily in a color scheme referencing water with many shades of blue, gray, white and black and with accents of orange and red referencing wildfires. The artwork makes use of each artists’ area of expertise and takes advantage of unexpected happenings in this artistic dialogue.
In Deep Water - Rising" is a collaborative art installation focused on water and climate change, environmental issues that are especially affecting Northern California communities. Two Northern California artists, one a papermaker (Jane Ingram Allen) and one a printmaker (Jami Taback), have worked together since August 2021 on this collaborative project, and even in that short time the climate crisis has intensified. To heal the earth and raise awareness the artists present a site-specific installation with community participation that will focus on rising waters and increasing threats from climate change. While Northern California is suffering through a long period of extreme drought and lack of water along with horrific wildfires, climate change is also causing sea level rise along the Pacific Coast and around the world. This installation will raise the alarm about rising waters and rising temperatures and a world in crisis. At the same time, it projects hope for the future using sustainable methods and materials. The artwork shows the terrible beauty and dichotomy of water as it can become out of control and raging, while at other times it is calm and refreshing. Time is running out and the threat rising; we are “in deep water”, but there is hope that we can make important changes and heal the earth. The collaborative artwork produced for this project incorporates several non-toxic printmaking processes on handmade paper created by the artists using plant fibers and a variety of papermaking techniques. Both artists are committed to using earth-friendly techniques and processes. The printed handmade papers are then ripped and burned and joined with natural thread to create a two-sided, multi-part, modular, large-scale art installation to immerse viewers in these immense and pressing problems. It induces a visceral sense of imminent crisis that warns us to change quickly and dramatically. The installation can be viewed from inside as well as outside, and the suspended panels create shadows as wells as paths viewers can walk through to experience the beauty and disaster of the climate emergency. The artwork is primarily in a color scheme referencing water with many shades of blue, gray, white and black and with accents of orange and red referencing wildfires. The artwork makes use of each artists’ area of expertise and takes advantage of unexpected happenings in this artistic dialogue.
Description:
In Deep Water - Rising" is a collaborative art installation focused on water and climate change, environmental issues that are especially affecting Northern California communities. Two Northern California artists, one a papermaker (Jane Ingram Allen) and one a printmaker (Jami Taback), have worked together since August 2021 on this collaborative project, and even in that short time the climate crisis has intensified. To heal the earth and raise awareness the artists present a site-specific installation with community participation that will focus on rising waters and increasing threats from climate change. While Northern California is suffering through a long period of extreme drought and lack of water along with horrific wildfires, climate change is also causing sea level rise along the Pacific Coast and around the world. This installation will raise the alarm about rising waters and rising temperatures and a world in crisis. At the same time, it projects hope for the future using sustainable methods and materials. The artwork shows the terrible beauty and dichotomy of water as it can become out of control and raging, while at other times it is calm and refreshing. Time is running out and the threat rising; we are “in deep water”, but there is hope that we can make important changes and heal the earth. The collaborative artwork produced for this project incorporates several non-toxic printmaking processes on handmade paper created by the artists using plant fibers and a variety of papermaking techniques. Both artists are committed to using earth-friendly techniques and processes. The printed handmade papers are then ripped and burned and joined with natural thread to create a two-sided, multi-part, modular, large-scale art installation to immerse viewers in these immense and pressing problems. It induces a visceral sense of imminent crisis that warns us to change quickly and dramatically. The installation can be viewed from inside as well as outside, and the suspended panels create shadows as wells as paths viewers can walk through to experience the beauty and disaster of the climate emergency. The artwork is primarily in a color scheme referencing water with many shades of blue, gray, white and black and with accents of orange and red referencing wildfires. The artwork makes use of each artists’ area of expertise and takes advantage of unexpected happenings in this artistic dialogue.
In Deep Water - Rising" is a collaborative art installation focused on water and climate change, environmental issues that are especially affecting Northern California communities. Two Northern California artists, one a papermaker (Jane Ingram Allen) and one a printmaker (Jami Taback), have worked together since August 2021 on this collaborative project, and even in that short time the climate crisis has intensified. To heal the earth and raise awareness the artists present a site-specific installation with community participation that will focus on rising waters and increasing threats from climate change. While Northern California is suffering through a long period of extreme drought and lack of water along with horrific wildfires, climate change is also causing sea level rise along the Pacific Coast and around the world. This installation will raise the alarm about rising waters and rising temperatures and a world in crisis. At the same time, it projects hope for the future using sustainable methods and materials. The artwork shows the terrible beauty and dichotomy of water as it can become out of control and raging, while at other times it is calm and refreshing. Time is running out and the threat rising; we are “in deep water”, but there is hope that we can make important changes and heal the earth. The collaborative artwork produced for this project incorporates several non-toxic printmaking processes on handmade paper created by the artists using plant fibers and a variety of papermaking techniques. Both artists are committed to using earth-friendly techniques and processes. The printed handmade papers are then ripped and burned and joined with natural thread to create a two-sided, multi-part, modular, large-scale art installation to immerse viewers in these immense and pressing problems. It induces a visceral sense of imminent crisis that warns us to change quickly and dramatically. The installation can be viewed from inside as well as outside, and the suspended panels create shadows as wells as paths viewers can walk through to experience the beauty and disaster of the climate emergency. The artwork is primarily in a color scheme referencing water with many shades of blue, gray, white and black and with accents of orange and red referencing wildfires. The artwork makes use of each artists’ area of expertise and takes advantage of unexpected happenings in this artistic dialogue.