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.
SOS
Vivian Cavalieri
Traditionally, ships in danger sent an SOS ("Save Our Ship"), and persons stranded on a deserted island would put a message in a bottle and set it afloat, hoping that the ocean waves would carry that message to someone who would rescue them. But here, the sender requesting help is the sea itself, where increased acidity and rising temperatures have weakened many forms of marine life. This small (7 x 14 x 4 inches) mixed media work consists of aquamarine, hemimorphite, freshwater pearls, Murano glass, fabric, acrylic paint, mirror, glass, cold water coral, dollhouse miniatures, and a deep custom wood frame with museum glass. To accompany the exhibit of this small-scale assemblage, I envision creating an installation consisting of empty bottles into which visitors can insert messages of support for protection of the oceans, as "SOS" can equally be interpreted as "Save Our Seas".
Traditionally, ships in danger sent an SOS ("Save Our Ship"), and persons stranded on a deserted island would put a message in a bottle and set it afloat, hoping that the ocean waves would carry that message to someone who would rescue them. But here, the sender requesting help is the sea itself, where increased acidity and rising temperatures have weakened many forms of marine life. This small (7 x 14 x 4 inches) mixed media work consists of aquamarine, hemimorphite, freshwater pearls, Murano glass, fabric, acrylic paint, mirror, glass, cold water coral, dollhouse miniatures, and a deep custom wood frame with museum glass. To accompany the exhibit of this small-scale assemblage, I envision creating an installation consisting of empty bottles into which visitors can insert messages of support for protection of the oceans, as "SOS" can equally be interpreted as "Save Our Seas".