The sacrifices of veterans the experience of combat are captured in a new interactive art exhibit at Kansas State University.

Folleh Tamba’s “A Grunt’s War diary” recently opened at the William T. Kemper Art Gallery in the K-State Student Union. The exhibit is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and is on display until Tuesday, Oct. 14. It is free and open to the public.

Tamba, a Marine Corps staff sergeant, has served four tours of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan as a rifleman before earning a Master of Fine Arts degree in interdisciplinary art and media.  He was challenged to transform a veteran’s lived experience into an exhibit of contemporary war art by Joseph Carman, director of the 555 Collective, an arts organization that supports survivors of trauma.

The exhibit features immersive artifacts documenting Tamba’s war experience. Drawings, sculpture, poetry, photography and entries from Tamba’s war diaries are embedded with visual and audio to document and replicate the viscera of combat for viewers.

“This is one of the finest exhibits of contemporary war are reflecting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,” said retired Army Lt. Col. Art DeGroat, executive director of military and veterans affairs for Kansas State University.