The iron tree sculpture between the Student Services Building and the Frank H. McClung Museum is the work of Duane McDiarmid, who produces projects in social sculpture and experimental works in his medium of performance art. He holds the BFA (1982) from Kansas City Art Institute and the MFA (1984) from Florida State. He has … Continued

In 1999 David and Jeff Towe of Towe Iron Works fabricated and installed Connections, a steel sculpture that displays the various methods of steel framing and connections (welds). The design for the sculpture, a piece of artwork as well as a teaching device, has been provided by the American Institute of Steel Construction for use … Continued

The College of Business commissioned local sculptress Julie Warren Martin to provide a marble sculpture for the courtyard of the Stokely Management Center. The sculpture, originally titled Genesis, was installed in March 1987. The sculpture is of red band Tennessee marble and is 10-and-one-half feet long. The original block of marble weighed approximately thirty thousand … Continued

The sculpture with fountain on the McClung Plaza is a recast of the Europa and the Bull fountain and sculpture of Swedish sculptor Carl Milles (1875–1955), which was erected in 1926 in the market square of Halmstad, Sweden. Mrs. Thomas Berry (Ellen McClung Berry) presented a gift of downtown Knoxville real estate valued at $300,000 … Continued

The sculpture of metal staves outside the Communications and University Extension Building is I’ve Got Sunshine on a Sunny Day by Tennessee artist Al Keim. It was a 2000 gift to UT from Dee Montie and Murray Evans. Keim also has a large outdoor sculpture at the Tennessee Welcome Center on I-24 at the Kentucky … Continued

In Search of Noah, a cast iron, steel, and bronze sculpture by L. Benson Warren was the 1994 purchase for the Reese Collection. It was installed on the University Center Plaza in 1995 and removed to allow demolition of the garage and plaza as part of phase I of construction of the new student union. … Continued

UT Alumnus Kenneth Cory sculpted the steel Poet’s Passage sculpture installed in 1981 on the University Center Plaza and removed to allow demolition of the parking garage and plaza in phase I of construction of the new student union.

Rare Pages III, a 7-foot high, 12-foot wide work by Blane De St. Croix is a concrete tile and aluminum siding exterior “library” that consists of approximately six hundred incised drawings of endangered birds and mammals. It was purchased by UT as part of the Reese Collection of outdoor sculpture in 1993 and is located … Continued

The chair and table, made from found-and-recycled industrial castoff material, is the work of Al Frega of Durham, North Carolina. Rust Never Sleeps was purchased for the Reese Sculpture Collection in 1989. Frega, an upper New York State native who earned the MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, creates series of … Continued

Sky Stone V, the steel, stainless steel, and gray granite T-shaped sculpture near the Humanities Plaza Amphitheatre is the work of Glenn Zweygardt. It was purchased for the Reese Collection in 1988. The works of Glenn Zweygardt are simultaneously ancient and contemporary. With his use of diverse materials—cast bronze, glass, iron, marble, stainless steel, stone, … Continued