#FlashbackFriday to when Dafne Murillo dafmurillo submitted this iconic piece to our 2014 Ocean Awareness Contest! 😍 Her Gold Award-winning “Plastic Whale” marked the first year we offered Visual Art as a category. Since then, the Art category has become the most popular in our annual Contest, with 2,700+ entries submitted last year alone! 🎨💪
In 2019, we transformed “Plastic Whale” into a mural on hpbaldwinhs campus in Hawaii as part of pangeaseed’s seawalls_: Artists for Oceans. Students added plastic pieces to the whale based on convos about marine debris often found on Maui’s beaches and in their everyday lives.
To this day, “Dafne” (the mural) reminds us of our close relationship with the incredible marine life that shares our blue planet and how our actions on land affect life below the surface.
As we celebrate our 10th anniversary 🎉, we’ll be sharing bits and pieces of our origin story that show how Bow Seat began and grew into the organization it is today. Follow along on...