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

🔗 www.bowseat.org/gallery
✨ 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
We had a blast learning how to make climate cartoons with New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro at our virtual workshop ''How to Make a Climate Cartoon,' in partnership with the Youth Ocean Initiative ✏️🌍

Thank you Tom!
#ClimateArt #YouthEmpowerement #BowSeat
October 8, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Bow Seat at #ClimateWeekNYC 2025 🌍✨

🎨 Ocean Awareness Contest artwork showcased at @ExplorersClub
🌱 Panel on the #UnitedByNature initiative at Doris Duke Treehouse
💫 Inspired by events + partners across the city

Learn more about Bow Seat at: bowseat.org
October 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM