America Heartland is a series of photography taken in a commercial aircraft at the moment of landing in American Midwest. It captures the geometric abstract patterns in snow-covered corn fields and roads from an unique perspective to attain a sensibility of the Sublime, celebrating the dynamic energies that brings vitality to America heartland.

Lampo Leong, PhD, is currently a Distinguished Professor, Doctoral Advisor, and Director of Centre for Arts and Design at the University of Macau and Professor Emeritus at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Leong’s work has been featured in art auctions such as Christie’s, Ravenel, etc., and in art expos, museums, and galleries worldwide through more than 70 solo and over 415 national and international juried and curated group exhibitions, receiving over 100 awards such as a Gold Medal at the Creative Quarterly international art competition in New York. Leong's work can be found in over 10 museum collections and hundreds of notable corporate and private collections. Leong’s achievements have been documented in over 1000 reviews and publications, including the front cover of the New Art International in New York, the Creative Genius: 100 Contemporary Artists in London, and Art Frontier in the USA.

Department of Arts and Design (DAD) at the University of Macau focuses on education, research and service in the fields of arts, design, and digital media. DAD collaborates with the Department of Communication, Centre for Arts and Design, Department of History, and the Faculty of Education for MA and PhD programmes in Visual Communication to cultivate talents in art, design, and creative media for Macao and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Through establishing a platform for international exchange and collaborations in interdisciplinary research projects, DAD endeavors to promote creativity in the fields of arts, design, and digital media internationally. While technologies and arts are inseparably associated, it is our hope that their synthesis could be utilized to diversify Macao’s economy, enhancing the development of the cultural and creative industry, and to ensure a sustainable competitive advantage for Macao towards a world-class tourism and leisure center.