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Bridge Initiative ART AS ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY
Telling powerful stories through art that move individuals from apathy

Deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the Achuar have lived in relationship with the forest for generations. Their language, th...
10/08/2026

Deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, the Achuar have lived in relationship with the forest for generations. Their language, their knowledge of the land and their way of life live on through stories, and some of those stories are at risk of disappearing.

Echoes of the Amazon is our documentary made alongside the Achuar community. These are stills from our first trip into the field, filmed by Fraser Morton | Journalist .

This is only the beginning. Next year we return to keep filming, and we’re bringing Tlingit and Unangax artist Yéil Ya-Tseen of Sitka, Alaska. His work, shown at the Venice Biennale and the Whitney Biennial, explores Indigenous identity, cultural resurgence and our connection to land. Together with the Achuar, he’ll take part in an exchange between Indigenous cultures of North and South America: two peoples carrying their languages and traditions forward.

We’ve raised $10,000 of our $25,000 goal, and the fundraiser closes this Monday, October 12. Your gift covers what it takes to tell this story well: pre-production, travel, lodging and our film crew in the field, plus post-production and editing to bring the film to audiences everywhere.

Help us raise the final $15,000. Link in bio to give.

10/02/2026

We’re excited to announce that Hello Whale: The Art of the Wild is an Official Selection of the 2026 Green Film Festival of San Francisco! 🐋

Join us for our screening on Sunday, October 18 at 12:00 PM PT (3:00 PM ET) at the 4-Star Theater, or watch from anywhere online.

There are three ways to join:
🎟️ Single-day tickets
🎟️ Full weekend passes
💻 Online viewing

Swipe to watch the trailer, and grab your tickets at the link in bio.

Media collected under AWF’s NMFS research permit #19703

Biscayne Bay is already under pressure. Now a 27+ acre marina redevelopment on Virginia Key could expand the marina’s fo...
09/28/2026

Biscayne Bay is already under pressure. Now a 27+ acre marina redevelopment on Virginia Key could expand the marina’s footprint to make room for mega yachts, right in the heart of the bay. 🌊

We’re standing with our neighbors at Gramps Getaway to protect Virginia Key’s waterfront, seagrass, and the wildlife that depends on them.

Join the rally, volunteer sign-up, and info session TONIGHT:
📍 Gramps Getaway, 3301 Rickenbacker Cswy
🕡 6:30 to 8:30 PM
🍔 Free burger or cocktail when you sign up

City of Miami voters: Vote NO on Referendum 3 on or before November 3. 🗳️

Not registered yet? The deadline is Monday, October 5. Register or check your status at registertovoteflorida.gov (link in bio) ✅

The bay can’t speak for itself. We can.

Gloria Steinem died this week at 92.Her phrase for how movements should relate to each other was “linked, not ranked” — ...
09/03/2026

Gloria Steinem died this week at 92.

Her phrase for how movements should relate to each other was “linked, not ranked” — and she applied it to ecology too.

That refusal to work in silos is our whole premise: artists and scientists together, making public work about the environment. We need more bridges.

Dolly’s life was a love letter to all things good - the mountains that raised her, the people who loved her, and the ear...
08/28/2026

Dolly’s life was a love letter to all things good - the mountains that raised her, the people who loved her, and the earth she never stopped fighting for. We honor her legacy.

“We’re just mistreating Mother Nature. That’s like being ugly to your mama, y’know?”

“My hope for the environment, for all things living, and all things good, just nature in general, is that we should pay more attention to how we’re treating our mountains, how we’re treating our world, how we’re just treating everything.”

🦋 180+ bald eagles released back into the wild in the Smokies, through Dollywood’s sponsorship of the American Eagle Foundation

🦋 A butterfly waystation and garden planted in her honor, supporting monarch conservation and pollinator habitat

🦋 $12M+ distributed to 900 families through her My People Fund after the 2016 wildfires, plus $700K for Middle TN flood relief and $3M through Mountain Tough for wildfire rebuilding

That’s the model we believe in at Bridge Initiative too - care for a place, sustained over time, turns into real protection for it. You don’t have to be a scientist or a policymaker. You just have to stay loyal to your mountain, your bay, your backyard.

In Dolly we trust, rest in power. 🦅

08/21/2026

THE BAY COLLECTION 🌊

Protect the bay, and the bay will protect you.

Three designs by Lee Pivnik - now available for the whole family, including our new Kids’ Collection.

100% of profits support the Biscayne Bay National Heritage Area campaign, in partnership with the National Park Service, The US National Trust The Cultural Landscape Foundation Biscayne Nature Center Friends of Biscayne Bay DHT.

Swipe through to meet the artist, the collection, and the mission behind it →

Shop the link in bio 🐠

Neon Bay 🪼

Biscayne is my Bae 🫶

Protect the Bay 🦩

The Kids’ Collection ✨

Meet the artist ✍🏼

Grateful to our partners 🤝

Shop the bay 🐠🦩🌴🪸🪼

08/21/2026

THE BAY COLLECTION 🌊

Protect the bay, and the bay will protect you.

Three designs by Lee Pivnik - now available for the whole family, including our new Kids’ Collection.

100% of profits support the Biscayne Bay National Heritage Area campaign, in partnership with the National Park Service, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Dade Heritage Trust, Biscayne Nature Center, and Friends of Biscayne Bay.

Swipe through to meet the artist, the collection, and the mission behind it →

Shop the link in bio 🐠

Neon Bay 🪼

Biscayne is my Bae 🫶

Protect the Bay 🦩

The Kids’ Collection ✨

Meet the artist ✍🏼

Thank you to our partners 🙌

Shop the bay 🐠🦩🌴🪸🪼

07/28/2026

Today, Miami turns 130. And there’s no better way to celebrate than by honoring the bay that gave birth to our city — a city that grew from vision, from community, and above all, from these waters, which have sustained life here for thousands of years.

This extraordinary city is credited to two women — Julia Tuttle and Mary Brickell, making Miami the only major U.S. city founded by a woman. Nearly half the men who signed Miami’s incorporation charter were Black, many of them Bahamian immigrants, and Seminole communities were already navigating these same waters as the city rose around them.

For five years, that’s exactly why we’ve led the effort to establish the Biscayne Bay National Heritage Area (NHA) — recognizing this bay as a nationally significant landscape where our environmental, cultural, and historical heritage are inseparable. If designated, it would become only Florida’s second NHA.

To mark this birthday, we’re excited to launch a new t-shirt collection with Miami artist Lee Pivnik (Lee Pivnik), inspired by a simple message: Protect the Bay, and the Bay Will Protect You. Every purchase goes straight toward this work.

We invite you to celebrate Miami by wearing your love for Biscayne Bay, and becoming part of its future. Link in bio to shop and follow along.

Celebrate Miami. Protect Biscayne Bay.

Thanks to The US National Trust, The Cultural Landscape Foundation, DHT, and special thanks to video artwork by Malcolm Lauredo of Greater Miami Bureau of Time Tourism for bringing Miami’s history to life.

07/17/2026

It’s here. The big news we’ve been hinting at — our next documentary needs you. 🌿

Link in bio to be part of Echoes of the Amazon.

Come out to Deering Estate this Sunday, July 12 for an evening of storytelling on screen along the bay 🎬MIAMI short FILM...
07/08/2026

Come out to Deering Estate this Sunday, July 12 for an evening of storytelling on screen along the bay 🎬

MIAMI short FILM FESTIVAL and Deering Estate are teaming up for Focus On: Celebrating Our Nation’s 250th Birthday, a program of four short documentaries screening in the Visitor Center Theater. Doors open at 7 PM for a cocktail reception, with the screening starting at 7:30 PM.

Stick around for Hello Whale, our film with director Darian Woehr exploring southeast Alaska’s humpback whale community through the artistic lens of Michele Oka Doner

🎟️ Tickets $20 / $16 student-senior-military, link in bio

📍 Deering Estate Visitor Center Theater

*18+ recommended program

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