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.
Telltales of Tide and Terra
Azra Aksamija
This installation creates a visual dialogue between human collective wisdom and plant intelligence across ocean (Tide) and land (Terra) ecosystems. Using traditional shibori indigo dyeing techniques—representing ancestral human knowledge of working with nature—each textile becomes a conversation between human craft intelligence and plant adaptive strategies. Each textile documents the regenerative intelligence systems of marine plants—seagrasses that purify water, algae that sequester carbon, coral symbionts that build reefs—alongside terrestrial flora's complementary healing strategies. The flowing indigo patterns, created through collaborative community dyeing workshops, represent how coastal "Blue Tribes" have historically learned from and honored these plant networks as guardians of planetary well-being. By combining traditional textile techniques with scientific visualization of plant communication systems, the installation honors the "Blue Tribes"—both human communities and plant networks—that maintain ocean health through their interconnected intelligence. This living archive invites viewers to recognize themselves as part of this collaborative healing network spanning tide and terra.
This installation creates a visual dialogue between human collective wisdom and plant intelligence across ocean (Tide) and land (Terra) ecosystems. Using traditional shibori indigo dyeing techniques—representing ancestral human knowledge of working with nature—each textile becomes a conversation between human craft intelligence and plant adaptive strategies. Each textile documents the regenerative intelligence systems of marine plants—seagrasses that purify water, algae that sequester carbon, coral symbionts that build reefs—alongside terrestrial flora's complementary healing strategies. The flowing indigo patterns, created through collaborative community dyeing workshops, represent how coastal "Blue Tribes" have historically learned from and honored these plant networks as guardians of planetary well-being. By combining traditional textile techniques with scientific visualization of plant communication systems, the installation honors the "Blue Tribes"—both human communities and plant networks—that maintain ocean health through their interconnected intelligence. This living archive invites viewers to recognize themselves as part of this collaborative healing network spanning tide and terra.