Express your artistic talents and love of the ocean by entering the Artist Boat Beautify the Bucket Competition. Registration is open now through March 18th. Winners will be announced, at noon, at Menard Park in Galveston on April 13th, coinciding with the fall Adopt-A-Beach Coast-wide Cleanup...
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Create Art for the Ocean – Enter the Marine Debris Art Contest
Artist Boat invites you to celebrate the seas by creating a masterpiece out of marine debris! The 2019 focus of World Oceans Day is Plastic Pollution Prevention, and rightly so as plastics and micro plastics are one of the greatest threats to the health of our oceans. You can help educate and inspire the public to prevent aquatic trash by creating an art piece highlighting the effects of plastics in our oceans. Artwork can be created using the medium of your choice, but should utilized aquatic trash as a primary component of the design. The Marine Debris Art Contest is ...
Calling All Teachers! Artist Boat’s We Back the Bay Program Now Taking Submissions
Thanks to a grant from The Environmental Protection Agency, Artist Boat is excited to offer the new We Back the...
Artist Boat Coastal Heritage Preserve Is Growing
Artist Boat has secured more than $1.4 million in federal, state and local funds and in-kind matches to acquire and conserve approximately 65 acres of coastal habitat on Galveston Island’s West End. The property is part of the 285-acre proposed Anchor Bay canal subdivision. The acquisition will expand Artist Boat’s Coastal Heritage Preserve conservation area to approximately 665 acres. Funding for the acquisition is made possible through a partnership with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), which applied for and received $1 million from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant Program (NCWCGP). Artist Boat rallied more than $400,000 of local contributions towards the project. This is the second time ....
Big News! Artist Boat Secures Funding to Expand Preserve!
Artist Boat has secured more than $1.4 million in federal, state and local funds and in-kind matches to acquire and conserve approximately 65 acres of coastal habitat on Galveston Island’s West End. The property is part of the 285-acre proposed Anchor Bay canal subdivision. The acquisition will expand Artist Boat’s Coastal Heritage Preserve conservation area to approximately 665 acres. Funding for the acquisition is made possible through a partnership with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), which applied for and received $1 million from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant Program (NCWCGP). Artist Boat rallied more than $400,000 of local contributions towards the project. This is the second time ....
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