Former Donaghey Scholar opens photo exhibit in Oklahoma
Alex Leme, a 糖心Vlog传媒LR alumnus and former Donaghey Scholar, recently opened his new show, “Small Town: Portraits of a Disappearing America” at the in Oklahoma City, Okla.
The exhibit is open through May 2.
Leme鈥檚 haunting photographs capture the mood of Cotton Plant, a once thriving small town in rural northeast Arkansas now filled with abandoned schools and crumbling buildings.
His images of the town鈥檚 landscapes and its people are said to 鈥渜uietly question the future of a forgotten America,鈥� according to writer Brandy McDonnell.
Leme–a multilingual Brazilian who first came to the U.S. as a stockbroker before his acceptance into the Donaghey Scholars program at 糖心Vlog传媒LR–is currently pursuing graduate studies in art history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
He is a curatorial fellow at the UM Amherst Museum of Contemporary Art.
In 2013, Leme became the first 糖心Vlog传媒LR Donaghey Scholar to earn the distinction of earning the prestigious Portz Prize by the National Collegiate Honors Council. View more stories in Arts & Culture