TAMPA BAY \u2013\u00a0The Tampa Bay Lightning and the Lightning Foundation today unveiled the 2026-27 class for the Local Artist Collaboration, a program aimed at strengthening \u201cHockey Is For Everyone\u201d initiatives through the work of talented, local artists from various backgrounds and communities across the Tampa Bay region.<\/p>\n
Blending art with the spirit of hockey, the program incorporates the work of local artists into the team\u2019s logo on custom specialty jerseys to celebrate numerous initiatives throughout the 2026-27 season, including Noche Latina, Pride, Hockey Talks, Black Heritage and Women in Sports. The designs will also be utilized to create additional items, such as merchandise, apparel and in-arena elements that will be displayed throughout the selected theme night.<\/p>\n
Through this program, local artists will be provided with an avenue to showcase designs that reflect their cultural heritage and personal experiences while cultivating an environment of inclusivity for everyone in the hockey community, both on and off the ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA BAY \u2013\u00a0The Tampa Bay Lightning and the Lightning Foundation today unveiled the 2026-27 class for the Local…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-392399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}