Messages from the Past

In a unique exhibition combining rock art and jewelry, Yavapai College Prescott Art Gallery delves into some of the oldest forms of human artistic expression. Featuring works by Photographer Dale O'Dell, and members of the Granite Mountain Jewelry Artists.

Dale O'Dell

Photographer Dale O'Dell has documented many rock sites throughout the American southwest. He uses digital technology to record and restore damaged images, and to collaborate with unknown shaman-artists, interpreting and transforming their rock art for a new age through his mysterious and evocative photographs.

Dale O'Dell "Newspaper Rock Lizard" (Detail)

Dale O'Dell "Nine Mile Canyon Ram" (Detail)

Dale O'Dell "nine Mile Canyon Zoomorph & Figure"

Dale O'Dell "Multiple Figures Petroglyphs"

Dale O'Dell "Valley of Fire Petroglyphs"

Dale O'Dell "Balloon Man, Nine Mile Canyon"

Dale O'Dell "Sunburst, Painted Rocks Site"

Dale O'Dell "V bar V Spiral Petroglyph" (Detail)

Dale O'Dell "Newspaper Rock, Painted Desert"

Dale O'Dell "Fremont Indian State Park Panel"

Dale O'Dell "Running figure, Painted Rock Site"

Dale O'Dell "Buckhorn Wash, Three Figures"

Dale O'Dell "Rochester Panel Horned, one-armed figure"

Dale O'Dell "Buckhorn Wash Tall Figures"

Dale O'Dell "Canyonlands Anthropomorph & Spiral"

Dale O'Dell "Capitol Reef Zoomorph & Anthropomorph"

Dale O'Dell "Capitol Reef Fremont-Style Anthropomorph"

Dale O'Dell "Sego Canyon, Two Figures & Animal"

Dale O'Dell "Rochester Panel Alien (Impressionist Reinterpretation)"

Dale O'Dell "Nine Mile Canyon, Zoomorph & Stars"

Dale O'Dell "Running Figure, Painted Rocks Site (Reinterpretation)

Dale O'Dell "Sego Canyon Fremont Figures"

Dale O'Dell "Painted Rocks, Gila bend, AZ"

Dale O'Dell "Ram with Arrows, Three Rivers, New Mexico"

Dale O'Dell "Entrance to Grapevine Canyon, Nevada"

Dale O'Dell "Sego Canyon Pictograph Panel"

Dale O'Dell "Buckhorn Wash Pictographs - Straight & Retouched"

Dale O'Dell "No Trespassing Vandalism - Retouched"

Dale O'Dell "Impressionist Figure & Spiral"

Dale O'Dell "Impressionist Petroglyph Panel"

Dale O'Dell "Temple Mountain "Devil Man" Three-step retouching process"

Dale O'Dell "Chloride Rock Murals Collage"

Dale O'Dell "Impressionist Buckhorn Wash Archaic Pictographs"

Dale O'Dell "Sego Canyon Fremont Pictographs"

Dale O'Dell "Sears Point, Zoomorph & Abstract"

Dale O'Dell "Sears Point Zoomorph Panel"

Dale O'Dell "Waving Hands Pictograph" (Retouched)

Dale O'Dell "Big Buffalo, Nine Mile Canyon"

Dale O'Dell "Palatki Site Archaic Pictographs I"

Dale O'Dell "Palatki Site Archaic Pictographs II"

Dale O'Dell "Newspaper Rock, Bear's Ears National Monument"

Dale O'Dell "Impressionist Bear's Ears Petroglyphs"

Dale O'Dell "Rock Art Ranch Anthropomorphs"

Dale O'Dell "Sego Canyon Pair of Petroglyphs"

Dale O'Dell "Impressionist Three Rivers Bird"

Dale O'Dell "The Zipper" Parowan Gap, Utah

Dale O'Dell "Grapevine Canyon Abstracts"

Dale O'Dell "V Bar V Panel, Rimrock, AZ"

Dale O'Dell "Sears Point Boulder with Petroglyphs"

Dale O'Dell "Rochester Panel - Lower Half"

Dale O'Dell "Sego Canyon Retouching Experiment"

Dale O'Dell "Sego Canyon Site Descriptions"

Dale O'Dell "Sego Canyon Retouching Experiment II"

Dale O'Dell "Petrified Forest National Park"

Dale O'Dell "Anthropomorphs & Zoomorphs"

Dale O'Dell "Zoomorphs, Anthropomorphs & Abstracts, Sears Point, Arizona"

Dale O'Dell "Zoomorphs, Lyman Lake, Arizona"

Dale O'Dell "White Tank Petroglyph Rock"

Dale O'Dell "Sand Island Panel" (Detail)

Dale O'Dell "Barrier Canyon style pictographs"

Dale O'Dell "Concentric Circle Petroglyph"

Dale O'Dell "Three Triangular Anthropomorphs & a Snake"

Granite Mountain Jewelry Artists

The Granite Mountain Jewelry Artists (GMJA), are local makers working in metal, stone, clay, glass, enamel, and found objects. A renowned group of artists, members of GMJA have shown their jewelry, mixed-media pieces, and wearable art around the country, and have taught at prestigious schools and appeared in national publications.