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 Department of Art and the School of Architecture. The gallery rotates exhibits approximately seven times a year. Located on the first floor of the Art and Architecture Building on the Knoxville campus of The University of Tennessee, the gallery has approximately 3000 square feet of exhibition space with 300 running feet of wall surface. The gallery is free and open to the public.
