A visual artist with a passion for the planet and the diversity of her creatures. Asher Jay was named a United Nations Women Design Star and an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic speaks about her art on our Women Mind the Water Artivist Podcast Series.

Jennifer Ensley is a creative and energetic entrepreneur who lives and works in Akumal, a town on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Akumal means turtle in Mayan. Jen who operates Tortuga Escondida, a residency center for marine ecology researchers and artists from around the world, is the founder and Executive Producer of the Akumal Arts Festival. The festival is an annual event with artists who come from the local community, across Mexico, and around the world to paint the Akumal bridge and the buildings throughout the pueble. More than 100 artists come together annually to paint murals, offer workshops, perform and engage with one another. The festival celebrates the Mayan culture and the turtles that nest on the local beaches.

In Brittany, France Guenola LeFeuvre gained an appreciation for the earthy smells, wild colors, and textures of the ocean. Now living in Maine, Guenola, a porcelain artist, is drawn early every morning to swim in the ocean. Later in the day she dips her hands into clay and works it into textures that remind her of the coast. Hear her story at Women Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast

High students who participate in Rocking the Boat learn boat building and water appreciation. They also learn the value of team work, gain self-respect and resilience, and develop the skills to build and operate a full-sized traditional wooden boat and appreciate the water. Hear Taji Riley and Samantha Day Los Santos talk about the Bronx after school program Rocking the Boat on Women Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast

Visual artist/muralist Adriana Delfin finds painting a good way to engage her imagination and work through emotions and feelings of loneliness. Living in Cozumel she explores the close link between body, mind, emotions, and the environment using a variety of art forms including painting, murals, street art, and sensory theater. Listen to her story on Women Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast.

Dance artist/educator, raises environmental awareness and inspires action through dance. Dale Andree is the founder and director of National Water Dance, a project that mobilizes dancers from across the United States including Puerto Rico to simultaneously share their expression of issues related to water quality and climate change. Hear her story at Women Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast.

Polly Dawson is a fashion designer, diver, and photographer. Her photography is a reflection of her experiences in fashion and with the ocean. Living and working in Playa del Carmen, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico Polly takes underwater portraits in the sinkholes or cenotes that are a geologic feature of the area. Listen to her story at Women Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast.

Education consultant, journalist, and communication specialist Karen Romano Young is writer/artist of Antarctic Log. The comic provides a look at life in Antarctica. Karen has created more than 180 Antarctic Log comics. Hear more at Women Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast.

Artist/owner of Saltwater Studio in Newport, Rhode Island is inspired by the ocean. She goes to the shore to collect seaweed for her art that showcases the colors, shapes, and textures of marine botanicals. Hear Mary Chatowski Jameson shares stories about her seaweed art at Women Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast.

Founder of Women Mind the Water has a passion for the ocean and its creatures . Pam Ferris-Olson creates projects including digital storytelling, visual art, and a podcast to a build community through collaboration and with a sincerity to do something to make a difference in the lives of women and an advocate for the ocean. Hear her story on Women Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast

Sophie Davis is an accomplished violist and member of Halcyon, an ensemble dedicated to using music and the arts to cultivate environmental stewardship.

Designer/sculptor creates large scale creations from plastic waste. The sculptures are meant to encourage environmental awareness and social change. San Francisco-based Yustina Salnikova was instrumental in the creation of Ethyl, an 82-foot-long Blue Whale made from steel and plastic waste.

Visual artist/cake designer talks about using cake to communicate and transform lives. In her interview on Women Mind the Water Artivist Series, Rose McAdoo talks about her time in Antarctica among other things.

Jill Pelto, climate change artist, creates watercolor paintings to communicate important environmental topics and to make them more emotionally relevant. Hear her story at Women Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast.

Michelle Provencal, former Pottery Barn and Anthropologie in-house designer, now creates felted sea creatures inspired by her experiences along the Maine Coast.

Kate Hruby, science educator, artist, sailor and creator of the podcast Go Forth and Science, shares her adventures. Kate’s art is designed to communicate marine science in a fun and easy to understand way. Listen to Kate's stories at Women Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast.

An environmental educator has a passion for underwater photography and videography and is using her talents and a 360 camera to create a virtual reality education program to immerse students in the underwater world of the nearshore waters around the San Juan Islands of Washington.

Jess Newley discusses her work on Women Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast.

Art educator Liz Ames shares how Maine’s marshes, beaches, and coastal landscapes influence her plaster art on the Women Mind the Water Artivist Series.

Glass artist Lisa Blanchard gains inspiration from nature beyond her window and the water’s edge a few steps way. Listen to her story at Women Mind the Water Artivist Series podcast.