A community of incarcerated artists and scholars dedicated to preventing the death of the oceans.
Phoenicia Rising is a community of incarcerated artists and scholars dedicated to preventing the death of the oceans. We do this through a basic strategy of more.
The ocean stewardship movement knows how to save the ocean, but it is savagely under-equipped, underfunded, and poorly manned. What we need is more.
We need more investment, more recruits, more foundations, conferences, more policy change, more kelp forests. More people dedicating their lives to this fight.
We believe that art can help with that, but only if there are more artists who are deeply informed about this issue.
If you're an artist who wants to use your skills to help us recruit more people into a life of ocean stewardship, you might already be a Phoenician.
They were the great sailors of the ancient world. They crossed open water by starlight and left their alphabet to everyone who came after.
Because an SOS should arrive the old way, in someone's hands, by chance. Then it's up to the finder what happens next.
Phoenicia Rising was founded by Kelton O'Connor, director of LUCI, the prisoner-led Let Us Contribute Initiative.
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