ephemeral is a Moab-based arts collective and resource hub dedicated to building resilient, place-based creative communities across the Colorado Plateau.
What we value:
Imaginative, bottom-up storytelling through in-person gatherings and print media
A media landscape that is honest, playful, locally-driven, and primarily offline
Uplifting artists across all levels of experience
Equitable access to creative resources and opportunity
Connecting community members to each other
What we do:
Most of all, we seek to capture the feeling of sitting around a campfire and hearing a really, really good story. Storytelling is inevitable, unavoidable, and utterly necessary to build resilient, creative communities. It is a crucial catalyst for social change.
Through our newsletter, print magazine, workshops, gatherings, and pop-up projects, we aim to support artists and foster rural connection.
Magazine
All contributors live or are inspired by the Colorado Plateau region. Within the magazine we publish fiction, non-fiction, satire, and poetry writing; plus photography, illustration, collage, and other visual mediums. Each issue has a unique theme or creative spark.
The mag is print only. We don’t have digital copies, nor do we make the work available online: It’s ephemeral both in the name and in the fact that we do limited print runs. Once it’s sold out, it’s sold out.
We pay artists for their work and they maintain full copyright.
Events
We value creating spaces for creativity and performance. We host the monthly “Draft + Draft” writers group (find information on our Instagram), and performance gatherings like Stoopfest and When We Were Boats.