Ocean Art & Media Fund

Seeking ocean-centered artists, storytellers, and founders whose work inspires people to protect and preserve the sea.

The Ocean Art & Media Fund supports photographers, painters, filmmakers, writers, marine artists, and mission-aligned founders whose work is rooted in the sea. We back projects that turn awe into stewardship—celebrating ocean beauty, confronting threats like pollution, reef loss, and overfishing, and moving audiences to protect the blue heart of our planet.

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Eligibility

We welcome projects across art, media, science communication, speculative fiction, and earth-positive venture storytelling. From early concepts to finished works, the strongest submissions are original, impactful, and feasible—and they deepen our relationship to the ocean while helping audiences understand what is at stake and what can be done.
To qualify for this fund, projects must meet the following eligibility requirements:
- Projects must be meaningfully centered on the ocean, coasts, marine life, or humanity’s relationship with the sea.
- Eligible formats include photography, painting, film, documentaries, journalism, science communication, speculative fiction, digital media, immersive experiences, and other ocean-inspired creative works.
- BlueTech startups and founders are eligible only if the project includes a strong earth-positive media, storytelling, or cultural component.
- Projects should promote ocean appreciation, protection, restoration, regeneration, or public understanding of marine issues.
- Projects focused on challenges such as pollution, coral bleaching, habitat loss, or overfishing should ideally be connected to a credible nonprofit, research group, foundation, startup, or community organization working on solutions.
- Applicants should show how their project will reach an audience and translate awareness into meaningful cultural or ecological impact.
- Projects must be feasible within the proposed timeline and supported by a team, plan, or track record that suggests they can be completed.

Projects (36)

33 submitted · 3 funded

Project	Status	Raised
Regen Reef	funded	$256
Regenerative Ecosystem	funded	$2,683
Gypsy Blood - Movie	funded	$624
Coralverse - Reef Revival	submitted	$3,709
FutureZoo	submitted	$215,046
Sharkwatch Cozumel	submitted	$9,112
Marine coral nursery and coral rehabilitation project in Cozumel, México	submitted	$10
The Acoustic Power of Reef	submitted	$2,463
Oasis of Rhythm: An Inward Journey Through Sound	submitted	$1,770
International Artists Project	submitted	$462
Healing Through Art: The Wellness Workshop	submitted	$1,522
Demos Voz al Agua	submitted	$457
The Density of the Invisible	submitted	$6,239
Living Sounds	submitted	$8,437
"Profundo" - Cuerpo, Agua y Territorio	submitted	$103
VR Underwater Expedition	submitted	$31,773
Akuya	submitted	$234
CEM1:Cleaning cenotes with effective organisms.	submitted	$10,069
A Guide for Discovering the Mesoamerican Reef System	submitted	$770
Decimate: A Virtual Landscape	submitted	$0
Solaris	submitted	$235
Sky Commons - Low Water (SC)	submitted	$0
Coral Print: Art & Ocean Conservation Studio	submitted	$0
Every Other Breath - Animating the Marine Carbon Cycle	submitted	$5,254
Artisanal Intelligence — Exhibition Tour	submitted	$5,915
CD, Álbum de Kunarevolution	submitted	$20
HolyHats: bucket hats with a hole made from RTVs upcycled ocean fishnets	submitted	$37,191
The International Artists Project Documentary	submitted	$563
The Primordial Dream: Reimagining Ourselves as Oceanic Composites	submitted	$5,667
Banta Boiz	submitted	$10
Third Sphere Socks — Sustainable by Default using RTV Recovered Fish Nets	submitted	$8,010
Sailing the Silk Road	submitted	$1,210
Woven	submitted	$56
Hands of Hope Foundation	submitted	$0
Guardians of Nature	submitted	$4,631
Dear Nigeria	submitted	$175