The Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture is named in honor of C. Kermit “Buck” Ewing who initiated the art curriculum at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1948.

Begun in 1981, the Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture is a professionally managed university gallery, funded jointly by the School of Art and the College of Architecture and Design. The Ewing Gallery has developed and maintained a permanent collection for the purpose of scholarly research and the enrichment of the University and regional communities.

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Sun Ra's Gift to Tomorrow

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These portraits are part of a much larger collection. They are practitioners I connect to my Afrofuturism philosophy of future-based liberation and…

Jimmy and the Black Fist Fire This Time

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They are practitioners I connect to my Afrofuturism philosophy of future-based liberation and freedom. These black and white images are works in…

B(9)rn

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The Five-Percent Nation (aka) the Nation of Gods and Earths is a Black nationalist movement formed in 1964 by their founder Clarence 13X. Their…

Doom

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In this illustrated work rapper MF DOOM as King Geedorah is verbalizing his consciousness through the art of beatboxing. Geeodorah is beatboxing a…

Grace Jones

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There are so many layered depths to Grace Jones’s work. This portrait is a work in progress that is as many of newer works represents the drawing…