Microplastics are found everywhere 😱 In our latest True Blue Fellowship Project Spotlight, discover FiberFusion ⚡️ where art and science collide to expose the hidden impacts of plastic pollution through UV-reactive marine paintings. bowseat.org/news/true-bl...

🌊 Meet the 2026 Future Blue Youth Council 💙 A global group of young leaders using creativity, storytelling, and action to shape the fight for a more just and sustainable world. Welcome to a new year of youth-led impact. #FBYC #BowSeat #youthaction

Happy New Year! ✨🌊 We’re starting 2026 with the Ocean Awareness Contest 2026 - inviting young creatives worldwide to use art, storytelling, and media to speak for our ocean and planet. Here’s to a year of bold ideas and powerful youth voices. 🔗 bowseat.org/programs/oce...

2025 was a year of answering big questions with creativity. Young people turned uncertainty into art, concern into courage, and imagination into action. As we step into 2026, we carry these stories forward, and make space for new ones. Happy New Year from Bow Seat ✨

Bow Seat 2025, wrapped. 📊🌊 Youth from around the world 🌍 united through art 🎨, storytelling 📖, and action. From classrooms to coastlines, creativity crossed borders 🌎 and every voice mattered 🗣️✨ Thank you for being part of it 💙 On to 2026 #BowSeat #artivism

This holiday season, we wish you moments of rest, reflection, and connection, with each other, and with the natural world that inspires everything we do. Happy holidays from all of us at Bow Seat. ✨💙 #BowSeat #artivism #christmas

Through her art & work with Bow Seat, Kalinago youth Tana Valmond shows us that climate action starts with listening: to land, stories, and Indigenous voices 🗣️ Read more: cs.org/publications...

📸🌱 Alumni Spotlight: Sabine Cuesta From photographing birds and insects in Ontario to advocating for coexistence with nature, Bow Seat alum and 2024 FBYC member Sabine Cuesta shows how art can drive environmental action. bowseat.org/news/through...

We're excited to share that one of this year's True Blue Fellows Alex Mkwizu has won First Place a the Creation Africa - Second Edition in Lagos for his Kilwa VR Project. We are proud to celebrate Alex's creativity, vision, and impact beyond the Fellowship. #BowSeat

Another incredible and inspiring 2025 winner ✨ Read the powerful words of our Senior Gold winner Sierra Elman. A beautiful, moving piece with vivid imagery reminding us why youth voices matter. See the full list of winners at: bowseat.org #BowSeat

Meet Fredrick, a 2025 True Blue Fellow from Kenya, whose work transforms conservation into a living expression of Maasai identity 🌍✨ Read the full story: bowseat.org/news/safegua...

o say, and it’s beautiful. Their words remind us why youth voices matter in the movement for our planet. 🌍💙 Let the poem speak to you, move you, inspire you. 📝💫 #BowSeat #OceanAwarenessContest #artivism

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.

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!

✨ 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. 🌎💙

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

🌊 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

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

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

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...

🎨 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

🌍 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

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

“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

🌊 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

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

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

🖐 The 2024 #BowSeat Ocean Awareness Contest invited youth to Tell Your Climate Story. From tree-planting hopes 🌳 to warming ocean 🌊, young artists like Anna Darido & Carrie Li show how art can move hearts and hands toward action. Explore: bowseat.org/gallery #ClimateArt

⏰ Last chance! Less than 30 mins to RSVP for Bow Seat x YOI’s climate cartoon workshop with New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro! 🎨 Oct 4 | 11am–12pm EST | Free Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #ClimateArt

Afghanistan is reeling after a series of earthquakes and aftershocks since Sept 4, claiming 2,200+ lives and displacing thousands in Kunar province. A trusted local NGO, HOAD, is on the ground bringing relief where it’s needed most. Donate: www.hoad.org.af #Afghanistan #EarthquakeRelief

Jane Goodall may be gone, but her spirit lives on💚 Wounda, a chimp, once “close to death,” was rescued in 2004, given Africa’s first chimp-to-chimp transfusion, and later released into the wild. She embraced Jane in gratitude, then became Alpha of her group and mother to Hope. #JaneGoodall #Youth

Reminder: the #NatureForAll 30x30 Art Contest is looking for your submissions! Students, show us your vision of Earth if 30% of land & water are protected by 2030 💙 Submit via Padlet. Top works will be featured at the IUCN World Conservation Congress. 🔗 natureforall.global/festival-nat...

🚨 Only 100 spots! 🚨 Join Bow Seat + Youth Oceanic Initiative for a free workshop on making a Climate Cartoon with New Yorker cartoonist Tom Toro 🖊️ 📅 Oct 4 | 11am–12pm EST 👉 RSVP now: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

You tell us! By @washdnr on Ig #ocean #crab #marinebiologist #deepsea #art #youth #océan #meme #funny #crabbie #crabs #humour #europeancrab

🌊 The 2026 Ocean Awareness Contest is here! Your Story, Our Ocean invites ages 11–18 to share how the ocean sustains, protects & inspires us— through art, writing, film & more. 💙 Cash prizes up to $1,000! 📅 Deadline: June 8, 2026 🔗 bowseat.org/contest #BowSeatContest #OceanAwareness

Only 2 days to go until the big reveal of the 2026 Ocean Awareness Contest theme! Today’s Hint #2 is here to stir your imagination… Can you guess what this year’s focus might be? Drop your prediction in comments! #OceanAwarenessContest #3DaysToGo #Art #Contest #Youth #Painting

Only 3 days to go until the big reveal of the 2026 #OceanAwarenessContest theme! Every year, the theme sets the stage for powerful stories and artwork from young people around the world, and this one might just surprise you. Any guesses on what this year’s focus could be? 👀💭

See the pinned message in the comments (we promise this is the last clue!)