Arts Perspective: Open Call for Short Fiction (Four Corners Writers)

Arts Perspective magazine invites fiction writers from across the Four Corners region—Southwest Colorado, Northwest New Mexico, Southeast Utah, and Northeast Arizona—to submit original short stories for publication. This call is open to emerging and established writers who call this remarkable region home, even if your stories travel far beyond it. There is no required theme. […]

Inside the Sonny Marshall Series: author Terry R. Bacon

Terry R. Bacon has long lived in the space between intellect and imagination. Widely recognized for his work on leadership and influence, there has always been an underlying current — the writer, the storyteller, the quiet observer of human complexity. In recent years, that current has emerged fully through his Sonny Marshall series, a collection […]

More Than a Gallery: The Creative Energy of Zu

There’s something undeniably invigorating about the vision behind Zu Gallery in Cortez — even before you step inside. It’s not just another art space. It’s a dream brought to life by someone who personally knew what it felt like to need something hopeful, human, and creative to hold onto. What began as a personal project […]

Silent Sky by Merely Players

This February, Merely Players will present Silent Sky, a luminous and moving play by Lauren Gunderson that brings the true story of astronomer Henrietta Leavitt to the stage. When Henrietta is hired to chart the stars at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she is relegated to clerical work and denied access to the […]

Eileen E. Fjerstad: Painting the Landscape from Life

Eileen E. Fjerstad is a plein air landscape painter whose work reflects decades of careful observation of the natural environments in the American Southwest. She resides and creates art in Silverton, Colorado, and has been a professional painter since the mid-1980s, gaining recognition as a regional artist through her consistent dedication to painting directly from […]