Initiated by the Ewing's Director Emeritus Sam Yates over 30 years ago, the Honors Exhibition recognizes outstanding students graduating from the University of Tennessee's School of Art and College of Architecture and Design. Selected by a school of art faculty scholarship committee, seven art students were chosen for this year's exhibition. These students are | Grace Sutt, Sara Caoile, Julia Johnson, Tracy Yu, Iris Love, Darcy Privette, and Grace Russell.
The students from the College of Architecture and Design were selected by the faculty-at-large and by outside review teams. These students are | Margaret Marando, Emily Lavoll, Delaney Kohlstedt, Sam Tugman, Nicole DiLorenzo, Isabella Myers, Charlotte Albright, Adele Berelsman, Lauren Bouchoux, Margaret Bremner, Michelle Chen, Ella Chipley, Abigail Dearstine, Jackson Gupton, Alison Hamplin, Nora Heely, Jenna King, Emma Kissel, Brittany Portas, Adriana Scialla, and Alexandra Vega-Cruz.
Among them, Charlotte Albright, Adele Berelsman, Lauren Bouchoux, Margaret Bremner, Michelle Chen, Ella Chipley, Abigail Dearstine, Jackson Gupton, Alison Hamplin, Nora Heely, Jenna King, Emma Kissel, Brittany Portas, Adriana Scialla, and Alexandra Vega-Cruz are the authors of Rock, Paper, Scissors, Fabric, Studs, the design-build pavilion awarded the 2026 Tau Sigma Delta Bronze Medal, developed under the direction of studio instructor Nicolás Valencia.
In the fourth-year design-build studio at the School of Interior Architecture of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the concept of scarcity served as the starting point for design. As in a supermarket, once you know your budget, you try to get more for less. The resulting space is the outcome of structural design, layout design, and curatorial strategy developed simultaneously — not as sequential decisions, but as a single design problem in which the module's construction logic, the flow between pieces, and the encounter with each essay resolved each other.
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