Featured Artist - Luci Westphal
The Friends of the Tampa Bay National Wildlife Refuges Featured Wildlife Artist Program celebrates local wildlife artists whose work brings visibility to the beauty and ecological value of the Tampa Bay National Wildlife Refuges.
Luci Westphal is a photographer, filmmaker, and interdisciplinary artist with a focus on
social and biophilic art projects to enhance people’s well-being and connection to the
outdoors and each other. Originally from Hamburg, Germany, she has lived and created in Brooklyn, Berlin, Colorado, and Florida – from the countryside to the city, from the mountains to the sea. Currently, she lives in St. Petersburg, in the Historic Kenwood Artist Enclave, and has a studio at the ArtsXchange in the Warehouse Arts District. She’s likes birds… a lot.
Three of her Public Art Initiative metal birds fly over Historic Kenwood street corners. Her St. Pete garden is a certified wildlife habitat through the National Wildlife Federation. Her video work has been broadcast and screened internationally, her photography has been exhibited in multiple group and solo art shows, and she has received several grants including a Jerome Hill NYC Film Production Grant, and local art grants from the St. Pete Arts Alliance, Creative Pinellas, Gobioff Foundation, SouthArts, and WADA.
Through her nature photography and her outdoor lifestyle brand happier.place, Luci
wants to inspire people to get happier by going outdoors and cherishing and protecting nature. Working with the Friends of the Tampa Bay National Wildlife Refuges is a dream come true for this self-proclaimed bird nerd. And before you ask: she now loves too many birds too much to still stick with one favorite bird.
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