Join the Ephemeral Keepers!
back print media, back real artists
Want to support print media and makers on the Colorado Plateau? As an Ephemeral Keeper - you’re bolstering bottom-up storytelling, equitable creative access, thriving artistic networks, and an honest offline media landscape.
With your membership, you’ll receive every issue of Ephemeral magazine and two annual stuffed envelopes filled with local art. This membership is more than a subscription – it’s a passionate statement to keep alive the handmade, the art-felt, and the small town solutions or voice.
Ephemeral Keepers Membership
With your membership you’ll receive unique love letters delivered to your mailbox each year— every issue of ephemeral at your doorstep and 2 stuffed envelopes filled with local art from the Colorado Plateau, including poems, love notes, stickers, zines, doodles, mini paintings, fortunes, puzzles, jokes.
Levels
✶ Struggling Artist – $60/year or $5/month
Covers the basics with love and care
✶ Dreamboat Stamper – $108/year or $9/month
Helps us dream bigger and print better
✶ Postage Paladin – $156/year or $13/month
Sets us up for the long-term, anchoring our print media goals
With your funding, you help us:
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Ensure ephemeral's longevity.
We print 300 copies of each issue. At $11 each, that's an upfront cost of $3,300. -
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Pay writers and artists.
We publish stellar work, and we want to be able to pay our authors what they deserve. -
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Offer resources.
We dream of creating grants for local artists and hosting literary events.
We rely on contributions and sales from the
print magazine to fund our mission.
We’re so grateful to have fiscal sponsorship through the Department of Public Transformation, a nonprofit that works to develop creative strategies for increased community connection, civic engagement, and equitable participation in rural places.
This partnership allows us to receive tax-deductible donations and apply for grant funding under their 501(c3) nonprofit status.