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Welcome to Bow Seat’s Ocean Advocacy Art Gallery!
This interactive space showcases the award-winning Art, Film, Music, Poetry, and Prose created by middle and high school youth around the world in response to our annual call for art, the Ocean Awareness Contest. This space is a celebration of individual artistic expression as well as the power of collective voices—a global community of youth passionate about conservation. We invite you to dive into this powerful collection that explores how human activities impact the health of our blue planet, and shines light on our intimate connection with oceans and marine life.

watch the waves now. see how they lap at your feet & cradle your body as though your skin is made of nacre. this is how you become weightless. how you forget the depth of your



1. at a bar with friends from work. they say wife like pushing poison through yellowed teeth like when they’re asked to sweep the floors like impossible. laugh: slam down the glass till cracks bloom…




we run the seas now. the youthful and able, we see through kaleidoscopes & opportunity. we grow up in this place you call home. but i was certain that home isn’t something you throw…


