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.
Making Waves
Janine Caalders Suzanne van Leendert
"Making Waves" – a fusion of textile art and poetry – invites reflection on our relationship with water: what it holds, what it means to us, and how we use it. Currently on display at the Waterliniemuseum in the Netherlands as part of the exhibition Still Waters, this work integrates jute with everyday discarded materials such as plastic packaging, bottle caps, and sealing clips—items often ignored but frequently polluting our seas. By repurposing these materials, the piece urges viewers to consider their role in water contamination and the pervasive presence of plastics, even in textiles. It evokes both beauty and dismay, mirrored in the accompanying poem, which emphasizes our shared responsibility and the fact that we all belong to the same ‘tribe’: "Only together we can make waves / each one of us a drop." "Making Waves" connects to water quality discussions and initiatives like The Ocean Cleanup, balancing the vast beauty of nature with the stark reality of human impact.
"Making Waves" – a fusion of textile art and poetry – invites reflection on our relationship with water: what it holds, what it means to us, and how we use it. Currently on display at the Waterliniemuseum in the Netherlands as part of the exhibition Still Waters, this work integrates jute with everyday discarded materials such as plastic packaging, bottle caps, and sealing clips—items often ignored but frequently polluting our seas. By repurposing these materials, the piece urges viewers to consider their role in water contamination and the pervasive presence of plastics, even in textiles. It evokes both beauty and dismay, mirrored in the accompanying poem, which emphasizes our shared responsibility and the fact that we all belong to the same ‘tribe’: "Only together we can make waves / each one of us a drop." "Making Waves" connects to water quality discussions and initiatives like The Ocean Cleanup, balancing the vast beauty of nature with the stark reality of human impact.