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Show Page B2 THE DAILY HERALD, Provo, Utah, Sunday, December 3, 1995 DREAMS: (Continued from Page Bl) and exhibited in permanent public collections from California to Europe. The Brigham Young University graduate who w isely changed his major from premed to art after e and walking away with awards in both paint. first-plac- best-of-sho- w ing and sculpture, wrote his master's thesis about hood ornaments and emblem design. It was the beginning of what has become an enduring interest in the automobile as art. After teaching at the European Art Academy and later at the University of Grenoble, Wanlass and wife Joy settled in Astoria, Ore. house overlookTheir three-stor- y ing the Columbia River was his largest sculpture to that time. After 16 years there, Wanlass moved his family and studio to a home against the foothills in Sandy, a space he and Joy again designed and built. His art is no longer a part-tim- e hobby, e career. but a "I've always thought the ideal would be to have someone appreciate my work enough that I could make a living at it," he said. They do, and he does. Clients from Japan and Europe visit the private studio above his garage to select bronze sculptures that start at $15,000 and go up. As for selling his work, Wanlass says, "I'm really not as interested in selling them as I am in creating them. I can't just have a person come in and say, 'You ought to sculpt this; it would really sell!' I have to have a passion for it. I can't create something I don't have a passion for." Indeed, Wanlass's works are not 12,0(X)-square-fo- ot full-tim- : staid replicas of early automobiles, but creative statements about the importance of the car and people's relationship to it. And they always tell a story. "For thousands of years, people relied on horse and wagon," he explained. "Then here came this contraption that revolutionized the world. It gave people freedom and only one who didn't use profanity was the dog." It took 63 grueling davs to complete the trip and collect the $50. Wanlass's painted bronze Win-to- n Flyer includes "just about everything he took," according to the artist, who has piled some equipment on the trunk and etched d more of it around the base the car sits on. Jack rabbits racing close behind the tires are there because Wanlass remembered the jack rabbits that would run in front of the headlights when his dad took him to the desert west of Lehi when he was a kid. People are just as important as the cars in his sculptures. "I would never depict a car without a driver or passenger," Wanlass said. "Without humanization, it's just a piece of machinery. Automobiles are extensions of people. When I drive, the wheels are an extension of me." He continues, "People are interesting; cars are interesting. Put them together and you have a syn- Wanlass leather-covere- ergy." Wanlass is less concerned about recreating exact details than in creating the spirit of a piece when he works. Hence, spokes may look d like pinwheels on oval-shape- wheels, giving the illusion of speed. "I try to make it a cohesive unit that makes a statement," he explained. Once he's satisfied with his research, Wanlass said, he feels "comfortable stretching history and condensing time and space to create a dramatic depiction of the spirit of the subject." He notes, "I change whatever I need to in order to establish a symbol." One such symbolic sculpture is First Love, where the artist's affable nature is evident in his work. It Wanlass and depicts a teen-age- d his girlfriend in a 1932 Ford convertible. Details include Coke straws and the fuzzy, oversized dice that dangled from rearview mirrors in the '50s. So well did he capture the spirit of "The Great Race" with his New York to Paris, '08 that the bronze won the grand prize at the Mead-owbro- Concours d'EIegance Automobile Art Show in 1983. made the world smaller." The limited edition of 30 sold out But it wasn't easy. One Horseat $40,000 apiece. His Spirit of Mercedes, featurpower depicts a horse pulling a 1906 auto out of the mud while the ing Carl Benz in an 1886 model with a companion at his side and a chagrined family in it waits impad tiently. Passing of the Horse, a sculpture of the dribronze, dramatizes the ver's daughter holding changing lifestyles at the turn of a torch over the single front wheel, the century as gasoline replaced made the rounds of major museoats as fuel. An anguished cowboy ums in Washington, D.C., Paris, on a horse tries in vain to keep up London and New York to celebrate with an early model auto and hold the car's 100th anniversary. onto the traditional way of life. Wanlass, who sports a ready Excitement shows on the faces of sense of humor, admitted at the the passengers in the car, who are time that the popularity of his Merdetermined to progress with the cedes was unexpected. "I limes. thought you had to be dead to get latest, called First Contisomething in the Louvre," he nental Crossing, depicts Dr. Horaquipped. "I'm hiring a taster as a a Vermont physitio Jackson precaution!" cian who spent $500 to win a $50 But nearly 10 years later, he's bet that he couldn't drive to Calistill sculpting, and his sculptures seatfornia in his Winton Flyer are selling. ed next to his mechanic as they Home now is a Tudor-styl- e head west in 1903. Between them home overlooking the southern sits a stray dog which they found end of the Salt Lake Valley. It's in Caldwell. Idaho: it's wearing headquarters for both work and son Lincoln, 20; daughsunglasses because of damage to family its eyes, a fact Wanlass discovered ter Amber, 18; and in his research of photos and jourtriplets Britton, Brandy and Brannals of the event. Jackson and his don. Much of the family's furnimechanic took block and tackle to ture is massive wooden pieces that winch themselves out of crevices give the remodeled home the look in mountainous terrain about 5 and feel of a medieval castle. times a day, Wanlass noted: "The Some of it remained in Oregon, gold-plate- ;-- concert. day The Utah ChilChoir dren's will be guest time fund-raisin- 5, "Personent Hodie," "Coventry Carol" and "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day." Janet Peterson will play the harp, and Karin Magleby is soprano soloist for the first set. The choir will next perform the director's arrangement of "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming;" "Jesus Christ the Apple Tree," with Jesse Ellis as soprano soloist; and the traditional Spanish "Carol of the Birds." Hard Wessman's "Vesi vasyy lumen alle" ("Water Under Snow is Weary") will be followed by "Ding Dong Merrily on High" and Rutter's "Shepherd's Pipe Carol" and "Donkey Carol." The concert will close with "Allons Ouir, Sur Nos Tetes" ("Listen to the Sounds of Heaven"), from John C. Phillips? "ChantonsNoel!" Tickets at the door are $5 general admission ($4 for students and senior citizens), and free parking is available next door at the NuSkin g Another commissioned heroic-size- d monument was unveiled in 1991. at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Penn. Titled Henry Muhlenberg, Man of Vision, the 8.5-fosculpture stands on a marble base beneath a Christopher dome in the administration building. "Muhlenberg was a contemporary Benjamin Franklin and the father of Lutheranism in America," Wanlass ot Wren-design- ed explained. The monuments, like his automobile sculptures, follow Wanlass's concept of man surmounting challenges. n "I believe in the genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible," Wanlass said. "I feel a responsibility to history, a great debt to those who came before me who improved the world to a point that I might have the opportunity to create." mm ffo'ft w I i o The Utah Children's Choir will perform with the Utah Valley Sympho-- ; ; Tabernacle at 7.JU p.m. ny Wednesday and Thursday in the Provo Bar-Jean Ashworth i dren's church group in Redlands, Mary Goetze, tie, Doreen Rao, and Laszlo and! Calif. In she 1973, began teaching at the American Heritage School in Pleasant Grove and started a music program there. She started the Utah Children's Choir in 1984 as a community children's choir of auditioned voices because "children have unique capabilities in singing that are different from adults'." Asay sought to use great music literature written for children's voices. She has since taught children's choir literature at the Church Music Workshops at BYU and worked n with children's choir composers and directors, including well-know- ' Katalin Forrai. The Utah Children's Choir has' performed in major halls in ;Salt Lake and Utah valleys. It earned a; silver medallion at the All Ameri-- j can Festival in Irvine, Calif!, in; 1993 and received the gold awards; with a high score at the 1994 Heritage Festival in Colorado Springs and again last April in San Diego, j As the abilities of each youth, have progressed and interest in the! choir has grown, Asay said, the! Utah Children's Choir has added; the new UCC Choristers, along; with its concert choir. jBijijiMaflrrMiMiiiMfflwM' FREE inrnnp ffltf"f irai twit itnf ihi wnfg C O N C E R T Srovo (firtetmcti as (9oncert i4 Friday, plaza. Asay, who plays flute and piccolo in the Utah Valley Symphony, conducted junior high and high school choirs in California and God-give- a tis& f,fa (& Photo courtesy of Utah Chtldren's;Choir direction of Kay Asay, the 37 choir will present members, ages the second half of the program. The orchestra, conducted by Clyn D. Barrus, will open the concert with Dvorak's Symphony in E Minor, "From the New World." The audience will then be invited to sing traditional Christmas carols, accompanied by the orchestra. The children's choir, accompanied by Marcia Johnson, with Marilyn Rudolph as vocal coach, will open its part of the program with "Dancing Day: A Cycle of Traditional English Christmas Carols," arranged by John Rutter. The cycle includes "Angelus ad Virginem," statue in a national park in Oregon, as well as monuments for the cities of Seaside, Ore., and Long Beach, Wash. The Mark of Triumph and End of the Trail, which each depict different historical events in the Lewis and Clark expedition, were unveiled in November 1990 on the sites where the events occurred. The Seaman, a monument which pays tribute to those lost at sea, will be covered with two feet of water at its base at low tide and to the man's elbows at high tide; is under way to comand install it monument the plete on the beach in Hammond, Ore. ov Kay Asay the Under j go dry artist in performances Wednesday and at Thursday 7:30 p.m. in the Provo Tabernacle. The artist occasionally gets away from cars, though. He's done a heroic-size- d Lewis and Clark December 1995 7:00 rm. 8 M Provo Tabernacle No babes in amis. Colorado after graduating from Adams State College in Colorado. But she fell in love with children's voices while working with a chil- - SPONSORED BY PROVO CITY, GENEVA STEEL, NU SKIN INTERNATIONAL, AND THE PROVO ARTS COUNCIL guild plans meeting Symphony 14 Members of the Utah Symphony Guild will get a "sneak preview" of the Utah Valley Symphony's upcoming concert Monday at I p.m. at the home of guild South, Provo. Kay Asay, director of the Utah Children's Choir, will give a musical presentation. Call Blue SfaHes. It's free and it's the law. Toil-Fre- e: 62-411- In 1-8- Salt Lake, call 00 532-50- Mar-cre- st president Dorothy Terry, Valley 1 00 BftENT NEIL Is Now CUTTING HAIR AT HIS NEW LINDON SALON! All All A LOT FROM A his divides and children Christmas together, and the Utah Valley Symphony will be combine the two in its annual holi- between Utah and Oregon, using foundries near each to produce his bronzes. In Sandy, he's only minutes from Lehi's Wasatch Bronze Works. Wanlass is up at 8 and works until 2 or 3 a.m. on various projects. Joy also puts in around 60 hours a week for the business, including bookkeeping and painting the bronzes. The artist's home library a turret at the top of spiraling wooden stairs houses thousands of volumes on vintage cars, and anything associated with cars. Wanlass says he enjoys doing the historical research almost as much as he enjoys creating new sculptures. 1 YOU COULD LEARN Symphony, children's choir to perform where Wanlass maintains the old home and part of his business. The vaulted gallery where he shows about 35 different bronze sculptures is behind a rusted iron gate w ith scroll designs; black iron chandeliers hanging from the ceiling take guests back a few centuries. BUCKLEYOUR SAFITYBELT. In lift uu Walk Or Call Haircuts The Time I-- For Appt. 165 West 200 North, Lindon - i vv 785 - 0566 East Off Slate St., bottom of Lindon North side of park. . . 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