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.
women against nature destruction
Jennifer
Seaweed provides income for 90% of women in Zanzibar but in 2006 the crop decreased ,2010 to the end of 2004 it was extinct, the number of farmers who are 90% women decreased from 400 to 150 caused by climate change .They could not adapt to new technique that required them to swim, majority of them don’t have access to swimming lessons from childhood based on their culture so many farmers had to quit the business and doors to gender based violence were opened from being dependent . Because 90% of the global warming goes into the ocean affecting marine species and people depending on it mainly women, this project intends to elevate their involvement in conservation movements and adapt into new ways of dealing with the existing problem. Zanzibari women are known to be fond of art based on their culture and history, therefore art is the perfect tool for not only connect with the community but also to share, digest and practice the environmental knowledge that seem to be complex to majority which is vital for having a stable community strong enough to fight, gender-based violence caused by climate change. Also promote the ocean’s conservation by introducing ways of using natural materials found in coastal areas as a replacement for non-biodegradable materials like plastics where 73% of beach litter worldwide is plastic affecting the ocean and contribute to climate change, eco-friendly alternatives will benefit lives of both marine species and women.
Seaweed provides income for 90% of women in Zanzibar but in 2006 the crop decreased ,2010 to the end of 2004 it was extinct, the number of farmers who are 90% women decreased from 400 to 150 caused by climate change .They could not adapt to new technique that required them to swim, majority of them don’t have access to swimming lessons from childhood based on their culture so many farmers had to quit the business and doors to gender based violence were opened from being dependent . Because 90% of the global warming goes into the ocean affecting marine species and people depending on it mainly women, this project intends to elevate their involvement in conservation movements and adapt into new ways of dealing with the existing problem. Zanzibari women are known to be fond of art based on their culture and history, therefore art is the perfect tool for not only connect with the community but also to share, digest and practice the environmental knowledge that seem to be complex to majority which is vital for having a stable community strong enough to fight, gender-based violence caused by climate change. Also promote the ocean’s conservation by introducing ways of using natural materials found in coastal areas as a replacement for non-biodegradable materials like plastics where 73% of beach litter worldwide is plastic affecting the ocean and contribute to climate change, eco-friendly alternatives will benefit lives of both marine species and women.