As we enter the fourth year of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, the European Marine Board (EMB) is looking for two new artists/groups of artists for the 2025 – 2026 edition of their ‘EMBracing the Ocean’ artist-in-residence programme.
The EMBracing the Ocean programme provides euro grants for creative individuals/groups from a wide range of disciplines to engage in a two-way co-creation of artwork in collaboration with Ocean scientists.
The aims of the programme are:
- Raise societal awareness of and embrace connection to the Ocean
- Inspire positive behaviour towards sustainability
- Contribute new insight and/or perspectives to science
The programme is open to creative individuals/groups from a wide variety of artistic disciplines. Both emerging and established artists will be considered by the committee. Prior experience in co-creation with scientists and/or communities and working on sustainability topics is desirable.
Applications are welcome from across the world, and from a wide range of creative disciplines, including but not limited to:
- visual arts (e.g. drawing, painting, filmmaking, photography, sculpting, digital arts, installation art);
- literary arts (e.g. fiction, drama, poetry, storytelling);
- performing arts (e.g. dance, music, theatre); and
- traditional and indigenous arts.
More information on the call and how to apply is available on the EMB website: https://www.marineboard.eu/open-calls.
Artists and scientists looking for collaborators to develop proposals with can post on the Ocean Decade art-science networking group.
For any questions please email Britt Alexander at the EMB Secretariat (balexander@marineboard.eu)