13/10/2025
15:00 - 16:00
Nature-based Education Pavilion
Why attend
Discover how creative arts empowers youth in conservation education and leadership. This session shares insights from Bow Seat’s Ocean Awareness Contest and True Blue Fellowship. Engage with student artwork, explore research on art’s impact on environmental education, and experience interactive strategies to inspire connection, communication, and action.
Session Description
Bow Seat: Creative Action for Conservation invites you to explore how the creative arts can drive youth empowerment in conservation education and leadership. As the world’s largest environmental youth program for the creative arts, Bow Seat works at the intersection of conservation, climate change, and arts education to nurture a new generation of environmental leaders. This session highlights case studies from the Ocean Awareness Contest, which has engaged more than 44,000 youth worldwide to creatively examine the human–environment relationship, and the True Blue Fellowship, which supports youth-led conservation initiatives rooted in creative expression and community impact. Participants will discover how art fosters environmental literacy, deepens youth–nature connections, and supports mental wellbeing. Featuring Fellowship case studies, peer-reviewed evidence, student artwork, and an interactive Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) exercise, this session offers educators, practitioners, communicators, and youth practical tools and inspiration to integrate the arts into conservation programming and partnerships.Partners
Commission on Education and Communication
