Dr. Bruce West’s detour on a road trip led him to complete an 18-year photography project and book.
How well do you know Missouri’s small towns? Bruce West, photography professor in the art and design department at Missouri State, learned so much about Mississippi in his formulation of his book, “The True Gospel Preached Here,” that it inspired him to learn more about the place he now calls home.
Is there a more haunting question than ‘what if?’ In Bruce Wes’s life – a professor of art and design at Missouri State University – his ‘what if’ takes him back to a road trip through rural Mississippi during a sabbatical in 1994. What he found there became an inspiration for his 18 year photographic […]
The power and beauty of art and music transcends the borders of countries, as evidenced by the work of two Missouri State University professors in the College of Arts and Letters.


