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.
ART, MOVEMENT, AND DISABILITY: TRANSCENDING THE BEAUTY PARADIGM
August 26 – October 18, 2026
Art, Movement, and Disability: Transcending the Beauty Paradigm is a 2026 book authored by University of Tennessee Associate Professor Emeritus of Art History, Dr. Timothy Hiles. The exhibition brings Hiles’ book into the gallery space, showcasing a selection of the artists featured in his research. These artists’ practices challenge conventional narratives of disability, embodiment, and representation. Art, Movement, and Disability is organized around three central themes: flipping the script—reclamation, invisibility, and the conversation.
Matt Bodett | School (Fool Series), 2025
WALKER EVANS
November 2 – December 2, 2026
In 1936, photographer Walker Evans and writer James Agee were sent on assignment by Fortune Magazine to observe and document the daily lives of three sharecropping families in Hale County, Alabama. The resulting book of their three-week stay was published in 1941 as Now Let Us Let Us Praise Famous Men.
Walker Evans is best known for his documentary photographs of the United States. He spent his early career experimentally photographing the streets of New York. In 1935, he worked for the Farm Security Administration and travelled through the mid-west and southern states of America creating some of his most important and significant work. In 1938, Evans was the first photographer that the Museum of Modern Art in New York honored with a solo exhibition titled Walker Evans, American Photographs.
Walker Evans | Floyd Burroughs
80TH ANNUAL STUDENT ART COMPETITION
January 21 – February 28, 2027
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 80 years.
MFA THESIS EXHIBITIONS
March 15 – 21, 2027
In partial fulfillment of their graduation requirements, students pursuing the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree are required to mount a solo exhibition of work, and to defend their work during an oral examination in front of a faculty committee. Due to the number of graduate students enrolled in the UT School of Art, these exhibitions generally take the form of small groups of students presenting concurrent solo exhibitions in the gallery space.
MFA THESIS EXHIBITIONS
March 29 – April 4, 2027
In partial fulfillment of their graduation requirements, students pursuing the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree are required to mount a solo exhibition of work, and to defend their work during an oral examination in front of a faculty committee. Due to the number of graduate students enrolled in the UT School of Art, these exhibitions generally take the form of small groups of students presenting concurrent solo exhibitions in the gallery space.
MFA THESIS EXHIBITIONS
April 9 – 15, 2027
In partial fulfillment of their graduation requirements, students pursuing the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree are required to mount a solo exhibition of work, and to defend their work during an oral examination in front of a faculty committee. Due to the number of graduate students enrolled in the UT School of Art, these exhibitions generally take the form of small groups of students presenting concurrent solo exhibitions in the gallery space.
SCHOOL OF ART BFA CAPSTONE
April 21 – 26, 2026
Reception | Wednesday, April 21, 5pm
The Capstone course is a requirement for all BFA Studio Art majors in the final semester of their degree. Capstone students engage in a self-initiated research project to demonstrate their ability to practice the skills and concepts of their chosen concentration. The Capstone also demonstrates the student’s ability to intellectualize and articulate issues and ideas about contemporary art.