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Our young artists connect, create and communicate for the 🌎 >38,000 participants in 142 countries! #OceanAwarenessContest 🔗 www.bowseat.org/gallery
☀️ Sun’s out, creativity’s in! Bow Seat hosted an interactive workshop at Eastie Farm, where participants explored how art can help us understand our changing planet, and inspire action. A big thank you to Eastie Farm for creating space for connection, creativity, and conversation. 🎨🌱 #BowSeat
🌊 Interested in the #TrueBlueFellowship? Join our Info Session to hear from alumni, learn what makes a strong application, ask questions, and discover how your creative ideas can make an impact. 📅 Aug. 8 ⏰ 10–11 AM ET Register at: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...! 💙
Progress isn't about perfection: it's about showing up, creating, and growing. 💙 These artworks from past #OceanAwarenessContest winners remind us that every artist starts somewhere, and every small step forward matters. Keep creating. Keep believing in yourself. 🌊
🎙️NEW PODCAST EPISODE ALERT! In this episode of Loud Pigment, meet Gavin Tesser: a 2025 FBYC member using creativity, advocacy, and storytelling to bring environmental issues into focus. Listen to his journey from artist to leader! ✨ Tune in: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TUS...
🌊 When science meets art incredible things happen! 🎨 Bow Seat joined the ICASE Annual Meeting in Ireland, to share “Creative Currents: Art as a Tool for Ocean Literacy,” featured in the global Ocean Literacy series. We explored how creativity deepens ocean connections and empowers future leaders.
🌊 The ocean inspires wonder and curiosity. For young artists around the world, it is a source of reflection and hope. At Bow Seat we believe creativity deepens our relationship with nature and inspires action. Every artwork can spark change. 💙 What inspires your creativity?
🌊💙 The ocean's greatest masterpiece? Its biodiversity. Every color, every species, and every ecosystem plays a part in keeping our blue planet healthy. When we protect marine biodiversity, we protect the future of our ocean - and ourselves. 🐠 What's your favorite marine species?
📖🌊 Flip through Creative Currents: Art as a Tool for Ocean Literacy—Bow Seat's chapter in Ocean Literacy: The Foundation for the Success of the Ocean Decade – Volume II. Proud to add to the global discourse on how youth creativity can inspire ocean action. Read more lnkd.in/e7PwmP78
🌊 Applications are open for the 2027 True Blue Fellowship! Youth ages 16–24 worldwide can apply for up to USD $2,500 in funding to support creative projects focused on the ocean, waterways, and climate. ⏰ Deadline: Aug. 30, 11:59 PM ET Apply: bowseat.org/programs/tru...
Our 2025 Annual Report is here! 🌎 Explore a year of youth creativity, environmental learning, inspiring stories, and community impact. Thank you to everyone who helped make this work possible. Read the full report: issuu.com/bowseatocean...
Our 2025 Annual Report is here! 🌎 Explore a year of youth creativity, environmental learning, inspiring stories, and community impact. Thank you to everyone who helped make this work possible. Read the full report: issuu.com/bowseatocean...
The #ocean connects us all. It regulates our climate, provides food and livelihoods for billions of people, and is home to an extraordinary diversity of life, from vibrant coral reefs to the largest animals ever to live. Yet, its future depends on the choices we make today.
Explore a one of a kind collaboration between Bow Seat and YRE, where young people from around the world have inspired one another through art, photography, and journalism. Step into the virtual gallery and discover the stories: www.yre.global/virtual-gall...
Applications are open for the 2027 True Blue Fellowship! Youth ages 16–24 worldwide can apply for up to USD $2,500 in funding to support creative projects focused on the ocean, waterways, and climate. Open to individuals, groups & organizations. ⏰ Deadline: Aug. 30, 11:59 PM ET
The 2026 Ocean Awareness Contest is officially closed! A huge thank you to the young artists around the world who submitted their work this year. Together, you helped us reach a record-breaking 7,352 submissions. 💙 Now the judging begins! Stay tuned for updates.
🌊 Only 1 DAY left to enter the 2026 Ocean Awareness Contest! How does the ocean sustain, protect, and inspire you? Through art, writing, film, performance, or multimedia, share your story and your connection to the ocean - whether you're coastal or landlocked. Submit your work: lnkd.in/eKYhfgPK
Explore a one-of-a-kind collaboration between Bow Seat and Young Reporters for the Environment ! Through 10 creative networks, young people worldwide connect art, photography, and journalism to share diverse perspectives on environmental issues. lnkd.in/eYFEBK3K
Our World Ocean Day exhibition with Ocean Week Canada is still open! 🌊 Don’t miss your chance to explore inspiring works by students across Canada. Enter: artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/node/15566019
🌊 7 days left to enter the 2026 Ocean Awareness Contest! Share your connection to the ocean through art, writing, film, music, poetry, dance, or multimedia. 📅 Deadline: June 8, 2026 Apply: bowseat.org/programs/oce...
The #ocean is more than a place - it is #climate, culture, #biodiversity, creativity, and connection. 🌊 The 2026 Ocean Awareness Contest invites young people worldwide to share how the ocean sustains, protects, and inspires them. 📅 June 8, 2026 🌍 Ages 11–18 #BowSeat
Exciting collaboration announcement! We are happy to team up with Ocean Week Canada for this year's World Ocean Day and present an online exhibition dedicated to student artwork from around Canada. Explore the digital gallery at: artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibitio... #WorldOceanDay
🐝 For World Bee Day, we’re featuring The Earth Stings by Hayoon Chun, a powerful artwork imagining bees wearing oxygen masks to survive polluted air. A reminder that protecting biodiversity means protecting even the smallest lives sustaining our ecosystems. #WorldBeeDay
We’re honored to be featured in @HappyEcoNews’ latest article🌎 The piece explores how creativity helps young people transform eco-anxiety into climate action & how Bow Seat has been in the frontline of enabling this transformation. happyeconews.com/the-climate-...
From goddesses to protectors and spirits of the sea, the ocean has always lived in our stories. These student artworks explore myths, legends, and folklore inspired by the sea to raise awareness on issues affecting the ocean.
100 years of wonder. 100 years of reminding humanity that this planet is alive, fragile, and worth protecting. Thank you, Sir David Attenborough, for giving generations a deeper love for the natural world. Happy 100th Birthday 🌍 #DavidAttenborough #Earth #Nature
🌊 Ocean Literacy Volume II is now live (open access)! Bow Seat is proud to have contributed a chapter highlighting youth, storytelling & the arts as drivers of ocean action. 📖 Read more: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #OceanLiteracy #OceanDecade #YouthVoices #BowSeat
Art for the ocean 🐋🎨 On April 24, we joined @CCSPtown and @masscultural for a Right Whale Day artmaking event: celebrating creativity while raising awareness for the endangered North Atlantic right whale. 💙 Thank you to everyone who showed up, created, and cared.
Travel can be more than escape - it can be impact. 🌍 Ecotourism is about exploring with intention: protecting ecosystems, and supporting communities. A new generation is redefining travel as a force for good. Visit bowseat.org to read our new article!
🌊 The 2026 Ocean Awareness Contest is open! As part of Bow Seat’s commitment to diversity & youth on the frontlines of climate change, ten $500 awards will support U.S. Black, Indigenous &/or Latine students 🌍 Deadline: June 8, 2026 🔗 bowseat.org/programs/oce...
