Please add these events to your calendar. We look forward to seeing you. All Ewing Gallery exhibitions, lectures, and events are free and open to the public.
RHIANNON SKYE TAFOYA
AUGUST 20 – OCTOBER 14, 2025
The art that I create reflects and honors the basket and the process of making a basket. Since I am from two different tribal nations, I have learned twice the knowledge of basketry plants from two very different landscapes. This traditional knowledge has taught me the importance of my homelands and the reciprocal relationship with our plant relatives that inherently evolves out of basketmaking. I carry the knowledge of plants and the teachings of basketry into my contemporary practice of printmaking, bookbinding, and paper-weaving as each medium has intentional qualities in their storytelling much like the plants and basketmaking processes. In each medium, every step informs the next and thinking in reverse and circular patterns is essential to understanding the outcome. I learn new methods each time that I create a new book, print, or weaving just like I do when I make a new basket; problem-solving is inevitable and often beautiful mistakes can reveal themselves even with a well thought out project. Naturally, each of the media I use inform and create relationships with one another as I merge them together. My relationship to the basket, my culture, my language, and my personal and family narratives are influential to my ways of making.
-Rhiannon Skye Tafoya
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In The Sky: Clouds Lent Out Use Discipline
OCTOBER 27 – DECEMBER 2, 2025
Clouds Lent Out Use Discipline (CLOUD) is a collaborative project initiated by Catty Dan Zhang and Carl Lostritto at the beginning of 2024 as a monthly ritual of making digital clouds. A collaboration formed upon shared interest in atmospheric form and a diffuse creative practice, it is conducted through divergent computational processes that explore clouds as objects, elements, architectures, spaces, systems, or constructs.
79th Annual Student Art Competition
January 22 – March 1, 2026
Begun in 1947 by C. Kermit Ewing, founder of The University of Tennessee School of Art, the annual student exhibition has become one of the oldest competitions in the country and one of the highlights of the Ewing Gallery’s exhibition season. This competition has been an outlet for UT’s talented students for 79 years.
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