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Our young artists connect, create and communicate for the 🌎 >38,000 participants in 142 countries! #OceanAwarenessContest

🔗 www.bowseat.org/gallery
Bow Seat is proud to announce the 2025 Senior Handcrafted Art Winners. Through hands and minds, these young artists shed light on the beauty and challenges facing our planet.

We congratulate all awardees for their commitment to using art as a force for environmental engagement.
December 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Today is Giving Day!

We invite you to help us sponsor the next generation of young artivists: students who use creativity and courage to speak for our planet.

Donate at: bowseat.org/donate/ and help nurture the next generation of environmental storytellers!
December 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
✨ Meet our 2025 Junior Handcrafted Art Winners! ✨

From paper to clay, thread to found materials, these young artists turned environmental change into powerful stories. Their creations remind us that protecting our planet begins with imagination and care. 🌎💙
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Congratulations to our 2025 Educator Innovation Award Winners!

These teachers used the Ocean Awareness Contest to give students agency, creativity, and a deeper connection to nature. Meet the educators empowering the next wave of ocean stewards. 💙

🔗 bowseat.org/news/congrat...
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Meet the 2025 Senior Digital Art Winners! 🎨🌊
These talented young artists pushed the boundaries of digital storytelling, merging imagination, technique, and environmental advocacy to create work that inspires reflection and action.

View the full list: bowseat.org/programs/oce...
November 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Meet the 2025 Junior Digital Art Winners! 🎉
These young creators transformed environmental stories into powerful digital artworks that inspire action and hope, which is at the heat of youth artivism.

View the full list: bowseat.org/gallery/?gal...

#OceanAwarenessContest
November 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Exciting news! 🌊✨

We’ve won Bronze at the 5th Annual @AnthemAwards!

Thank you for voting and for supporting our mission to uplift youth voices in ocean + climate action.

Here’s to the next wave of changemakers. 💙🌍

#bowseat #artivism #creativeactionforconservation
November 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The 2025 Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Contest winners are here! 🌍✨

From visual art to poetry, film, and writing, young creators worldwide shared powerful stories of their connection to nature.

Celebrate the winners and explore their work ➜ bowseat.org/programs/oce...
November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
As the world gathers at #COP30 in Brazil, leaders are discussing our planet’s future - but the climate conversation needs more than science and policy.

It needs creativity. ✨

Art moves people where facts cannot.
🎨 The future of climate action is creative.

#BowSeat #artivism
November 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Only 5 days until we announce the 2025 Ocean Awareness Contest winners! 🌊💙

We can’t wait to celebrate their voices, visions, and stories for the ocean. 💫

#BowSeat #OceanAwarenessContest #artivism
November 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
6 days until we reveal the 2025 #OceanAwarenessContest winners! 🌊💙

Throwback to last year’s Gold Winner (Junior Art: Handcrafted) - a reminder of how art can move hearts and minds for our planet.

Art: Climate’s Orphan
Jeong-Won Namgung
Cresskill, NJ

#BowSeat #artivism
November 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
In just one week, we’ll reveal the winners of the 2025 Ocean Awareness Contest: young changemakers from around the world using their creativity to speak up for our blue planet. 💙

Featured: Museum of Ghosts by Ryan Chua (Gold Winner, 2024, Senior Art: Digital)

#bowseat
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
We’re featured in @EarthOrg latest spotlight article! 🌍🎨

“The Art of Change: Young Artists Are Turning Creativity into Climate Action” highlights how Bow Seat empowers youth to use art as a tool for environmental change.

Read it here:

earth.org/the-art-of-c...
Young Artists Are Turning Creativity into Climate Action | Earth.Org
Bow Seat is an organization providing young artists with the tools to turn stories of climate change and anxiety into powerful artworks.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:53 PM
TODAY’S THE DAY! 🌊

It’s your LAST chance to apply for the 2026 Future Blue Youth Council! 💙

Join a global crew of passionate young changemakers using creativity, storytelling, and action to protect our ocean and our future.

👉 Apply now at bowseat.org/programs/fut...
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 AM
The countdown is on 🌊

Just 3 WEEKS until we announce the winners of the 2025 #OceanAwarenessContest, Connections to Nature: Looking Inside, Going Outside!

Stay tuned for the big reveal!

#BowSeat #CreativeActionforConservation #artivism
October 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Climate action begins with creativity. 🎨

This #ClimateActionDay, meet student artists who turn climate fear into inspiration - using art to awaken empathy and drive change.

🌎 Explore their work: bowseat.org/gallery

#BowSeat #CreativeActionforConservation
October 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
🌊 Join the 2026 Future Blue Youth Council!

Be part of a global movement of young environmental leaders with @fromthebowseat 💙

🌍 Collaborate, create & lead the global change for our planet.

📅 Apply by Nov 7 → www.cognitoforms.com/BowSeatOcean...

#BowSeat #FBYC #FBYC2026
October 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Only 2️⃣ weeks left to apply for Bow Seat’s Future Blue Youth Council!

Are you ready to use your creativity to protect our shared planet and inspire change? 🌊💙

Apply now ⤵️
bowseat.org/programs/fut...

Application close 6 November.

#BowSeat #FBYC #CreativeActionforConservation
October 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Bow Seat is a new member of @IUCN. It feels awe-inspiring to be part of the 1,400 members in this assembly who are deciding on the global conservation agenda for the next 4 years. We are advocating for youth to be part of the conversation. #IUCNcongress
October 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Reminder: The 2026 #OceanAwarenessContest is open!

Ages 11–18 🌍

🎨 Art | ✍️ Writing | 🎬 Film | 🎭 Performing Arts

💵 Up to $1,000 in awards

📅 Deadline: June 8, 2026

Free to enter → bowseat.org/programs/oce...
October 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
🎨 How can art drive climate action?

Join Bow Seat at the #IUCNcongress and explore how creativity empowers youth to protect our planet.

🗓 Oct 13 | 15:00–15:45
📍 Nature-Based Education Pavilion

#BowSeat #conservation #IUCN
October 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
🌍 On #WorldMentalHealthDay, we highlight 7 powerful youth artworks exploring the emotional impact of climate and humanitarian disasters. 🌊

Through art, young creators turn anxiety into action and fear into hope. 💙

Explore more art: bowseat.org/gallery
October 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Are you attending the #IUCNcongress this week?

🎨 Join Youth Artivism: Empowering Creative Voices for Nature 🌿

🗓️ Oct 10 | 16:00–16:45
📍 Youth Pavilion

Experience art, reflection & action for our planet.

#BowSeat #IUCN #conservation
October 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
“Turn understanding into unity, and unity into action…IUCN was created to unite humanity in defense of nature” -IUCN President, Razan Al Mubarak #iucncongress #nature
October 9, 2025 at 7:17 AM
🌊 We're at the #IUCNcongress !

Explore impactful youth art from Bow Seat’s Ocean Awareness Contest at the People’s Choice Award Art Exhibit - and vote for your favourite 🎨💙

📍 Exterior of Nature-Based Education Pavilion
🗓️ Oct 9 | 14:30–15:30 & Oct 13 | 14:00–16:00
October 8, 2025 at 4:20 PM