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.
trapped in frame
Hashim Nasr
In Sudan, the significance of the blue plastic gloves differs from their conventional use by veterans elsewhere. While these gloves are commonly employed by veterans for animal examinations, in Sudan, they serve an alternative purpose. They are utilized in the application of bleaching and whitening creams. The blue gloves aid in generating heat, consequently promoting sweat production, which in turn accelerates the absorption of the whitening cream into the skin. This unique adaptation of the gloves illustrates the creative repurposing of everyday items to suit specific cultural and beauty practices within Sudanese society. The distortion of national identity and citizenship among dark-skinned individuals in certain communities in northern and central Sudan, coupled with stringent beauty standards, particularly for women, has driven them to seek skin lightening. The use of gloves is employed to facilitate the absorption of sweating skin for lightening creams. This distortion of beauty ideals underscores a disruption in the sense of community cohesion, with some individuals feeling disconnected and lacking a sense of belonging.
In Sudan, the significance of the blue plastic gloves differs from their conventional use by veterans elsewhere. While these gloves are commonly employed by veterans for animal examinations, in Sudan, they serve an alternative purpose. They are utilized in the application of bleaching and whitening creams. The blue gloves aid in generating heat, consequently promoting sweat production, which in turn accelerates the absorption of the whitening cream into the skin. This unique adaptation of the gloves illustrates the creative repurposing of everyday items to suit specific cultural and beauty practices within Sudanese society. The distortion of national identity and citizenship among dark-skinned individuals in certain communities in northern and central Sudan, coupled with stringent beauty standards, particularly for women, has driven them to seek skin lightening. The use of gloves is employed to facilitate the absorption of sweating skin for lightening creams. This distortion of beauty ideals underscores a disruption in the sense of community cohesion, with some individuals feeling disconnected and lacking a sense of belonging.