From shark finning, plastic pollution, warming oceans, to overfishing—themes of their artworks aim to tackle issues our oceans are facing. By bringing these issues to the cities, these artists are able to communicate PangeaSeed Foundation’s mission through beautiful, thought-provoking, large-scale visuals. The organization also immerses the communities they touch with education on marine environments. They hold film screenings, beach clean-ups, educational panels, art exhibits and more. 

The organization does an awe-inspiring job at conveying the pressing issues our oceans are facing every day to the public. It is through these visuals that people can understand the “why” of PangeaSeed Foundation’s mission and values. 

According to PangeaSeed Foundation:

“Plastic accounts for 60-80% of marine garbage, and in high-density areas, reaches up to 95%. In the middle of the North Pacific, plastics outweigh surface zooplankton six to one.

There is a wide range of causes of marine species extinction and endangerment, such as habitat loss, acidification, atmospheric change, and pollution. The most dominant and influential threat, however, is overfishing.”

These are only some of the issues the organization aims to tackle every day through art and activism, or as they like to call it: “ARTivism”. Their next Sea Walls project will take place in December in St. Croix, USVI, with a series of educational public artworks to help raise environmental awareness, inspire ocean stewardship and renew the community still recovering from the effects of Hurricane Maria, a category-5 hurricane that struck in September 2017.