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.
Bowhead, Whale and Beluga in Arctic Ocean
Daria Koshkina
Bowhead, Whale, and Beluga in the Arctic Ocean This data art image represents the movements of three Arctic Ocean marine species: Walrus, Bowhead whale, and Beluga Whale. In the abstract wholeness of the ocean, we see a polar projection of their movements, where each dot represents the place wherethe Happywhales team spotted the animal. Data Happywhale - BHappywhale. 2024. Happywhale - Bowhead in Arctic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1769) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com. https://doi.org/10.15468/rfb6ep accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-03-06. https://www.gbif.org/dataset/1e5e5948-c599-47ae-b6a2-f1bbf749c3a7 Happywhale. 2024. Happywhale - Beluga in Arctic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1724) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com. https://doi.org/10.15468/a6kdag accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-03-11. Happywhale. 2022. Happywhale - Walrus in Arctic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2013) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com. https://doi.org/10.15468/9vzwfv accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-03-11. More images of the series can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10TA5oCCitZ_ISCgOjEBwyDkRzgdCcuuE?usp=sharing
Bowhead, Whale, and Beluga in the Arctic Ocean This data art image represents the movements of three Arctic Ocean marine species: Walrus, Bowhead whale, and Beluga Whale. In the abstract wholeness of the ocean, we see a polar projection of their movements, where each dot represents the place wherethe Happywhales team spotted the animal. Data Happywhale - BHappywhale. 2024. Happywhale - Bowhead in Arctic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1769) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com. https://doi.org/10.15468/rfb6ep accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-03-06. https://www.gbif.org/dataset/1e5e5948-c599-47ae-b6a2-f1bbf749c3a7 Happywhale. 2024. Happywhale - Beluga in Arctic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1724) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com. https://doi.org/10.15468/a6kdag accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-03-11. Happywhale. 2022. Happywhale - Walrus in Arctic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2013) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com. https://doi.org/10.15468/9vzwfv accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-03-11. More images of the series can be found here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10TA5oCCitZ_ISCgOjEBwyDkRzgdCcuuE?usp=sharing