Keith Wicks always wanted to be an artist even as a child growing up in Bakersfield, California. "If it were not for art and athletics in high school, I wouldn’t have done well at all," he confesses. "I just didn’t fit in. I was always drawing in class." His grandfather enrolled him in an art class taught by a woman who rarely accepted children as art students. She made the exception for Wicks, though, because she was impressed by his artistic abilities. In the 6th grade he entered several city-wide art contests, and won a blue ribbon for one his...
