“When Tempe Regan (MS, raptor biology, 2016) found a dead northern flicker on the ground, it wasn’t just a sad encounter—it was a turning point. ‘The feathers were so beautiful,’ she remembers. ‘We see flickers pecking on houses and think of them as nuisances. But when I looked at this bird —at the iridescence, the patterns—I realized how little attention we pay to their beauty.’
The fallen flicker became Regan’s first feather study, rendered in delicate graphite and colored pencil. She had five copies of the drawing printed—all of them sold. Now, with time and success behind her, she prints editions of 250…”