This all started out as a hobby. I got the idea to screen the designs while I was working in Utah on the Colorado, Green and San Juan River's Endangered Fish project. The project is downscaled now but the memories are very good. I want these shirts to be a reminder of good times and a mesmerizing land.
The Colorado River Valley looking towards the La Sals and Fisher Towers.
The Moab area has numerous examples of Indian rock art to enjoy. There are two types of rock art: petroglyphs (motifs that are pecked, ground, incised, abraded, or scratched on the rock surface) and pictographs (paintings or drawings in one or more colors using mineral pigments and plant dyes on the rock surface). Although many images may have originally been executed as a combination of both techniques, most now appear only as a petroglyph because the paint has faded or washed away over many years. A big game hunting people, known as Paleo-Indians, are considered to be the first human users in the area. Their game included now-extinct Pleistocene fauna such as mammoths and mastodons. A later culture called Archaic, probably used central base camps during their seasonal round of activities based on harvesting wild plants and animals. They did not build permanent habitation structures, but lived in caves and in small brush shelters built in the open.
The Anasazi whose culture centered south of Moab in the Four Corners area, concentrated much of their subsistence efforts on the cultivation of corn, beans and squash. These sedentary people, also harvested a wide variety of wild resources, such as pinion nuts, grasses, bighorn sheep and deer. The Fremont were contemporary with the Anasazi people, also grew corn, and were apparently more dependent on hunting and gathering wild resources than were the Anasazi. Their territory was mainly north of the Colorado River, but overlapped with the Anasazi at Moab.
Please do not chalk, rub, or introduce any foreign substances into petroglyphs when you are visiting them. Even residues from touching can interfere with dating methods. Rock varnish is relatively soft and thin - please don't walk on them!
We are located in the beautiful Grand Valley (Happy Valley) where the Gunnison and the Colorado River join. The Colorado River was once called The Grand River, thus the origin of our town name. The Ute Indians say there is a curse on the valley; if you live here and leave, you WILL come back . I don't think it's much of a curse but it is quite prophetic! We love it here because we are between the alpine and desert canyon country and can get to either in a matter of a couple of hours or less.
We do not have an outlet store but we do have our shirts at the
Museum of Western Colorado Dinosaur Valley exhibit..
