Eric Lintala received his Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts degrees from Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. He is Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts, University Of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts. He has received numerous awards, grants, and commissions. Work includes the 9/11 Memorial, Acushnet, Massachusetts, the 9/11 Memorial, Westport, Massachusetts, the Holocaust Memorial, NewBedford, Massachusetts. Site specific work in public collections, "A
Healing Place" Row Conference Center, Row, Massachusetts, "Marks Of Remembrance", Town of Carlisle, Carlisle, Massachusetts, "Inscription Rock", Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts.

Lintala has traveled extensively throughout the United States recording and researching prehistoric rock art, petroglyphs and pictographs, which has had a profound influence on his work. Concentrating his research in the southwest, he made a major discovery in 1994 of a rock art panel not yet recorded, located in Salt Creek Canyon, in south central Utah.