Stan
Mullins
Internationally recognized artist creating monumental sculpture, painting, public works, and cultural landmarks from Athens, Georgia.
Explore the WorkA life dedicated to inspiration and permanence.
Stone, bronze, paint, myth, memory, and public life.
Stan Mullins works in the old language of permanence and the immediate language of wonder. From Carrara marble to bronze monuments, from public memory to private myth, his practice moves between the ancient and the contemporary with uncommon ease.
His work is at once serious and mischievous, civic and intimate, mythological and deeply human.
About the Artist
Not simply a regional sculptor. A living archive of public memory.
Mullins’ career spans more than forty years of monumental sculpture, painting, murals, humanitarian work, cultural diplomacy, and public art. His work belongs to the ancient lineage of material permanence while remaining deeply engaged with the contemporary world — whimsical, rigorous, monumental, and alive.
From Athens to Carrara. From mythology to public memory.
A four-decade artistic journey spanning the United States, Italy, Rwanda, Japan, Bhutan, Congo, public monuments, private collections, painting, bronze, marble, and granite.
Born in North Carolina
First visit to Carrara, Italy
Rwanda exhibition, Kigali
Out of the Ashes unveiled in Kyoto
Vince Dooley monument, UGA
Ashes to Glory, Marshall University
Chief Tomochichi, Atlanta
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. public sculpture
Works in Stone, Bronze & Myth
These works are not simply objects. They are thresholds — between body and story, old world and new, sacred material and living imagination.
Freedom
A work of liberty and burden, carved in stone and crowned by the strange electricity of becoming free.
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Pandora
A mythic encounter in Carrara marble: beauty, danger, release, and the human appetite for the unknown.
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Ariadné
A thread through the labyrinth — betrayal, deliverance, and the strange grace of being remade.
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Geisha
An image of composure and ceremony, where beauty becomes discipline and silence becomes architecture.
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Queen of Sheba
A sovereign intelligence in stone: wisdom, wonder, journey, and royal imagination.
View ArchiveWhere memory becomes place.
Some works are made for rooms. Others are made for cities, universities, nations, ceremonies, and the shared life of a people. Mullins’ public works stand where history must be seen, touched, remembered, and passed forward.
From the University of Georgia to Marshall University, from the Millennium Gate Museum to international dedications, his work has entered the public spaces where memory takes form.
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