This sculpture installed on the Joe Johnson/John Ward Pedestrian Mall in summer 2009 consists of ribbons of curved aluminum around a central axis to create a whirling series of pathways. At the top of the 30-foot-tall spiral form, a single arrow emerges in an arc of neon light that ends in a starburst shape. Aycock … Continued

In 1993 UT Vice President Sammie Lynn Puett, who chaired the Bicentennial Committee of the UT system, commissioned, as a UT system bicentennial project, a sculpture to be placed on the Knoxville campus as a landmark legacy of the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the chartering of UT. Julie Warren Martin, UT graduate and … Continued

The sculpture of a man on a tightrope making his way along at the College of Nursing Building is Untitled by John Payne, a 1989 sculpture purchase for the Reese Sculpture Collection. Payne, a UT College of Business Alumnus and visual arts master’s degree recipient from Georgia State, today specializes in “Kinetosaur” sculptures, featuring dinosaurs … Continued

Although Beck’s design for the Volunteer Statue was chosen as the symbol of UT in 1931, an expression in bronze was not placed on the campus until 1965. Beck, a Yale University fine arts student when he entered the contest to design a symbol for UT subsequently received the BFA from Yale.

Part of the Class of 1993’s gift to UT was a bust of Alex Haley, sculpted by Jim Gray. The class also established a library endowment. The sculpture was installed in the John C. Hodges Library. The bust includes a surrounding element composed of three characters from Roots—Kunta Kinte, Chicken George, and Queen. David Kao, … Continued

A bust of Bill Majors, carved from Tennessee marble, was presented to the university as a gift in 1967 by its artist, Albert Milani, two years following the death of Coach Majors in a car accident. Milani was the chief carver for Candoro Marble Company from 1927 until his retirement in 1977. He had his … Continued

Centuria, located in the Jack E. Reese Galleria of the John C. Hodges Library, is an approximately six-foot-high (with its base) marble sculpture presented to UT by the Omicron Chapter of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority in April 2002, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the chapter. A glistening white marble female figure draped … Continued

A bust of Howard H. Baker Jr., sculpted by Jim Gray, was unveiled at the dedication of the Howard H. Baker Center for Public Policy on October 8, 2008, and was placed on display in the rotunda of the Baker Center.

The sculpture in the foyer of the Frank H. McClung Museum is one of the 1923 original five castings of The Vine, by sculptor Harriet W. Frishmuth (1880–1980). The bronze figure, for which dancer Desha Podgorska Delteil was the model, is nine feet tall. It was cast by Gorham Company Founders. Frishmuth was born in … Continued

The board of trustees approved the official Seal of the University of Tennessee on March 5, 1891. At least three earlier versions of a UT seal were used, and the trustees first authorized procurement of a seal on October 20, 1821. The description of the seal in the 1891 board of trustees’ minutes reads: “an … Continued