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.
Greening the Lab - Agar Bioplastic
Anna C Dumitriu
This submission highlights bioplastic artefacts made from waste agar; a seaweed-based gelling agent essential in scientific laboratories. Stemming from Anna Dumitriu's "Greening the Lab" research, the work confronts the immense environmental footprint of single-use plastics in biomedical science. Agar, sourced from marine algae (a major component of blue carbon), and used to culture infectious bacteria for diagnosis and research, is discarded after use. This project transforms this overlooked waste stream into biodegradable materials in a safe way, crafting objects that embody the concept of the circular economy. By demonstrating a tangible alternative to fossil fuel plastics, using a substance intrinsically linked to marine ecosystems, the work directly addresses plastic pollution – a critical threat to ocean health.
This submission highlights bioplastic artefacts made from waste agar; a seaweed-based gelling agent essential in scientific laboratories. Stemming from Anna Dumitriu's "Greening the Lab" research, the work confronts the immense environmental footprint of single-use plastics in biomedical science. Agar, sourced from marine algae (a major component of blue carbon), and used to culture infectious bacteria for diagnosis and research, is discarded after use. This project transforms this overlooked waste stream into biodegradable materials in a safe way, crafting objects that embody the concept of the circular economy. By demonstrating a tangible alternative to fossil fuel plastics, using a substance intrinsically linked to marine ecosystems, the work directly addresses plastic pollution – a critical threat to ocean health.