The exhibit shows work from Professor Emeritus Keith Ekstam, as well as several of his previous students, over his 37 years of teaching at Missouri State University.
Like many artists, Ekstam started small.
“When I was a kid, I liked to make things, toothpick forts and cardboard box sculptures, [and I] just kind of think it all sort of came out in the wash as I got older,” he explained. “I was taking English classes and urban planning, and I kept taking art classes. And I just decided that, yeah, this is what I’m going to do.”…