Turtle Tide Art Project 2025

About the Turtle Tide Art Project

Starting in 2022, the Edisto Chamber of Commerce created the Turtle Tide Art Project as a way to benefit local businesses, artists, and non-profit organizations. The Turtle Tide Art Project will help raise funding for a variety of local non-profits. In addition to supporting non-profits, the turtles will offer residents and visitors a glimpse into Edisto’s creative art community, as well as provide informational facts about the loggerhead turtles that call the Island home.

The turtles arrive as blank slates before local artists transform each one into their own unique artistic creations. After the “Reveal” event in May/June, the turtles then take up residence in Edisto over Turtle Season (May-October). During Edisto’s Fall Fest in October, they will be put up for auction to find their “forever home”. Proceeds from the auction will go to the designated non-profits associated with each turtle.

2025’s turtle proceeds will go to support the following organizations:

Read more about our local non-profits that are doing great work within the community here!

• Animal Lovers of Edisto Canine Rescue (ALOE)
• Edisto Art Guild, Inc.
• Edisto Beach Loggerhead Turtle Project
• Edisto Belles
• Edisto Island Community Clinic
• Edisto Island Lions Club
• Edisto Island Open Land Trust
• Edisto Seniors
• FRESPACE
• New First Missionary Baptist Church