


Past Event: Impact of Exchange 2024
Global Ties Arkansas, in partnership with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and
Cultural Affairs’ Office of Alumni Affairs, Global Ties U.S., and Photoville, hosted the photo exhibit,
Impact of Exchange: Stories from U.S. Exchange Alumni, at The MacArthur Museum of Arkansas
Military History, in Spring of 2024. The exhibit of 6 giant photo cubes was in Little Rock to increase
awareness of exchange opportunities available to anyone desiring to experience life in another part of
the world. Should you want to learn more about exchange programs and how to participate, please
visit the U.S. Department of State's website: https://exchanges.state.gov/ .
The photo exhibit debuted in Portland, Maine, in September 2023, and then traveled across the
United States, with stops in Little Rock, AR; Boise, ID; and Cedar Rapids, IA, with the last stop on the
campus of Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia in the fall of 2024. As it traveled across the
country it reached over 85,000 people.
At the Little Rock kick-off reception of the exhibit, we had the Fulbright scholars, Dr. David Briscoe,
Glen Harrison, and Henry B. Sirgo, Ph.D., and two Gilman scholars, Ra’phael Davis and Jackson
Trahant, attending. One Fulbright alumnus spoke and the two Gilman alumni spoke about their
reasons to go on the exchange and how it broadened their perspectives and changed their lives. From
Congressman French Hill’s Little Rock office, Hunter Sadler read a letter from Representative Hill to
congratulate us on this project. We had great food catered by Three-Fold Noodle and engaging
background music from guitarist, Brian Nahlen.
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The month-long exhibit was free to the public and was outside on the grounds of the museum.
​You can read Marshal University’s announcement of the exhibit from this link:
Traveling Impact of Exchange photo exhibit coming to Marshall University’s Huntington campus -
Marshall University News
The picture in the announcement is actually of Little Rock’s MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military
History.
An impact on the community and benefit of having the exhibit on the grounds of the MacArthur
Museum was that it drew people to tour the museum that normally wouldn’t have visited there.

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