Jamie Lester

Many of his sculptures have been produced as commissioned public works, including statues of actor Don Knotts (along High Street in front of the Metropolitan Theatre in Morgantown, WV, 2016),[3][4] basketball player and executive Jerry West (outside the West Virginia University Coliseum, Morgantown, WV, 2007),[5] George Steinbrenner in Monument Park (Yankee Stadium), New York City,[6] and the Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance at MCU Park in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY.

[8] Each year, Lester creates bronze-relief busts representing new inductees to the World Golf Hall of Fame in St. Augustine, Florida.

The 8-feet-tall statue located at the Summit Bechtel Reserve is intended to inspire past, current and future generations of girls and women involved in Scouting.

For example, Lester stated that he worked over 4,000 hours to create his rendering of Jerry West,[15] while planning for his Don Knotts statue began nearly ten years before the final version was erected.

[17] Born into a working-class family in Oceana, West Virginia, Lester began creating art at the age of three, due to the influence of his mother, a watercolor painter, and his father, a coal miner who introduced to him to whittling and fort building.

Aside from operating as Lester's workshop, Vandalia Bronze hosts the Nampara Arts Cooperative, which provides rentable space to ceramic artists, including equipment and kilns, and public instruction.