21 YEARS IN THE COMMUNITY
SINCE SEPTEMBER 2004
- 1500+ professional artists exhibited
- 200 UT students exhibited
- 210 exhibitions
- 249 First Fridays
- 7500+ visitors annually
SECONDARY EDUCATION PROGRAM | 3-YEAR RESULTS
- 944 student visits
- 270 free takeaway art supply bags
- 18 buses sponsored by gallery
EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS
2004 | Opened the gallery with a solo exhibition of paintings and drawings by Joseph Delaney.
2005 | Participated in Knoxville’s James Agee week with an exhibition of photographs by Walker Evans from their collaborative work Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.
2005 | Exhibited photographs by Ed Westcott, who was the official photographer of Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project. Prior to this exhibition, his work remained unseen in classified government files.
2009 | First Art Source Exhibition—an exhibition of Knox County Schools Art Educators. The gallery is now in its 17th year hosting this exhibition.
2013 | Partnered with the Knoxville Watercolor Society to celebrate their 50th Anniversary with an exhibition of current and past members.
2014 | First public exhibition of Marion Greenwood’s mural painted in 1954 for UT’s University Center. Greenwood was a muralist, WPA artist, and student of Diego Rivera.
2019 | Collaborated with the Stanford Eisenberg Knoxville Jewish Day School to bring Violins of Hope, an exhibition of restored violins from the Holocaust, to Knoxville.
2021 | Exhibited the work of Joseph and Beauford Delaney. The first time the brothers’ work had been presented in a two-person exhibition.
2023 | Exhibited paintings and sculpture by Lonnie Holley as part of our sixth collaboration with the Big Ears Festival. Holley was the festival’s Artist in Residence and had several well-attended musical performances in the gallery.
2025 | Collaborated with the McClung Museum to showcase contemporary Cherokee art across campus and Downtown Knoxville.