Stanley Wanlass
​Stanley Wanlass-Professor Emeritus, B.F.A./ M.A./ A.F.A.S., taught at numerous universities in the United States, Canada, and abroad including the European Art Academy in Paris and the Université de Grenoble, France. He is president of Renaissance International, Inc. a design studio based in Oregon. Wanlass, who resides in Oregon and Utah, is an internationally known sculptor, designer, and painter. He also creates heroic bronze historical monuments.

Stanley is also famous for his limited edition automotive bronze sculptures echoing his love for the automobile which he has collected, restored, and raced since the mid-fifties. Wanlass has always had a passion for cars. As a child, he sculpted them out of soap bars. During the '50s as a young hot rod enthusiast, he built two 1932 Fords which he showed and raced. To support his automotive pursuits he striped, flamed, and scalloped local hot rods and customs.

​Stanley believes "The automobile is the only really new significant art form of the 20th century. For thousands of years man relied on the horse and wagon for transportation. Then this contraption comes along and revolutionizes the world."

Wanlass is a hopeless idealist and romantic. "I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible. I feel a responsibility to history, a great debt to those that came before me who improved the world to a point that I might have the opportunity to create. Jefferson stated that 'he was a warrior so that his son could be a farmer so that his son could be a poet'. Life is short and art is long. I would like to leave something edifying, of significant beauty a tribute to the spirit, dignity, and excellence of man.”