The World Ocean Day Creative Challenge, 2026 partners: HEALTHY OCEAN COALITION
ARTivism for Planet Ocean
Banner Artwork- Xavi Reñé
Inspire, educate and make waves for the ocean!
The aim is to raise awareness, inspire, build community and also to contribute to safeguarding the ocean & marine wildlife. We want to build a movement to bring ocean literacy into the mainstream and reach communities that wouldn't usually consider the importance of our ocean
How to Join the Challenge
The concept is simple- respond to these 4 ocean prompts designed to celebrate, raise awareness and highlight the work of our charity partner- 8th-24th June 2026
Use your creativity to celebrate, educate and inspire for Planet Ocean!
Challenge rules: Make sure you use the following hashtags:
#ForPlanetOcean #ForPlanetOcean2026 #HealthyOcean
Our Partners for 2026: Healthy Ocean Coalition
Every year we partner with an amazing organisation to fundraise and highlight the important work they do! Healthy Ocean Coalition empowers people and communities to protect and fight for Planet Ocean!
The Healthy Ocean Coalition is a network of grassroots organizations and people committed to ensuring people and wildlife have a healthy and resilient ocean. Our mission is to build and nurture a community of advocates working together to defend and advance ocean and climate conservation policy. We don’t just advocate for the ocean - we help our members build power to protect it. Through collaboration and collective action, we expand and diversify the ocean conservation movement.
Our Hosting Artists
Every year this challenge is hosted by a wonderful team of internationally acclaimed artists. We are here to inspire and support anyone participating in the challenge.
Our hosting artists will be supporting them in various ways through auctions, print sales and by telling the stories of the incredible work they do.
We have some artists who really define themselves as ocean artists but others who usually work in other areas. This way we cross-pollinate more & spread the word wider. We've loved receiving questions about some of our previous prompts- "what is blue carbon?" & receiving comments from participants to say that that had seen seagrass on their coastline & hadn’t known what it was before. That is exactly our intention! Let's get excited, make some art & some noise for planet ocean
@anjanamistryillustration@Mariehermanssonillustration@blackscatter@emmalopesart@gabrielalarios1@heyzoish@ladislas_c@art.by.johannaexcell@petitplat@madisonmuellerart@when.pigs.swim@karlasanderart@roughforradio@mojoandmuse
