Photographer Jim Schlett - Fort Union Artist-in-Residence

This episode of Big Blend Radio's 1st Friday "Toast To The Arts & Parks" Show with the National Parks Arts Foundation (NPAF) features photographer Jim Schlett who discusses his photography and month-long NPAF artist-residency at Fort Union National Monument in Northern New Mexico. Learn more about Jim and view his work at photomanva.zenfolio.com/

Fort Union National Monument, located in Mora County near Watrous, New Mexico, was the largest frontier military post and supply center of the southwest. It also was the hub of commerce, national defense, and migration at the final stretch of the Santa Fe Trail. The richly evocative remnants of a post-civil war era adobe fort became a National Monument in 1954 under the Eisenhower administration. More at www.nps.gov/foun/index.htm

Learn more about the National Parks Arts Foundation and their unique artist residency programs at www.nationalparksartsfoundation.org/