Sewanee Event Highlights

Sept. 18, 7:30 p.m.
Convocation Hall

Please join our guests from the Emmett Till Interpretive Center, Executive Director Patrick Weems and Special Projects Coordinator Jessie Jaynes-Diming for a conversation and presentation. The Emmett Till Memory Project is a response to the ongoing and often violent resistance to the commemoration and remembrance of the life and lynching of Emmett Till and the courageous Civil Rights legacies of his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. 

Sept. 21, 4 p.m.
All Saints' Chapel

The University Choir and All Saints' Chapel invite everyone to this reflective service of music, prayer, and scripture. Including music by Richard Ayleward, Herbert Brewer, and Herbert Sumsion sung by the University Choir under the direction of Organist and Choirmaster Dr. Geoffrey Harris Ward and accompanied by Stephanie Yoder, assistant organist. The service will be livestreamed for our alumni and friends unable to attend in person.

Sept. 24, 5 p.m.
Guerry Auditorium

Join us as Baggs McKelvey speaks about her UAG installation Indigo Hallow. In all of her installations, McKelvey explores her relationship with the land and the environment. Indigo Hallow is not a portrait of Shakerag Hollow, but an intuitive and poetic response to that place. Reception afterward.

Aug. 28 - Oct. 10
Carlos Gallery

Dan Reidy’s Recent Work frames large scale oil paintings, sculptures, video and poetry filled with imagery that references stories that become oddly familiar. Visual references ranging from art history to pop culture co-mingle with objects and images from Reidy’s personal history. He is interested in overlapping narratives and how collision points between them speak to a shared humanity with fascination. Viewers engaging with the work become intellectual offspring of these collision points, for example, when we talk in movie quotes and make allusions to Greek mythology. Francis Bacon, Han Solo and Blanche Dubois become character in his exhibition where their stories are shared out of context, asking the viewer to discover them anew in relation not only to each other, but to the mediums of traditional painting, sculpture and video.

Sept. 1, 2025 - Jan. 30, 2026.
William R. Laurie University Archives and Special Collections

An Exhibition curated by introduction to Museum Studies Students, Easter 2025

Aug. 28 at 6 p.m. EDT
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Associate Professor of Art and Chair of Art, Art History and Visual Studies Jessica Wohl will be showing“I Dreamed You Were Here”, transforming the Hunter Museums's mansion stairwell with layered textile banners sourced from found garments, linens, and discarded household items. She uses the softness of the material and the intricately stitched text to communicate with the viewer, inviting them to join her in a quiet revolution against exploitation and oppression. Her exhibition will be on view through February 2027.

Aug. 7 - Sept. 15
TheCaverns.com/SingOff

Auditions now open for the Sing Off, a vocal competition inviting local talent of all ages from across the South Cumberland region until Sept. 15. The concert will take place on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, inside The Caverns’ underground concert hall and is free to the public with advance RSVP required for limited seating for residents of Tennessee’s South Cumberland region. Free tickets will be available to community members to reserve starting Oct. 15 at TheCaverns.com.

Sept. 17, 7:30 p.m. 
St. Luke’s Chapel

The musicians Earl White, Victor Furtado, and Tray Wellington will perform songs in the oldtime, folk, and bluegrass tradition. White, Furtado, and Wellington are all acclaimed bluegrass performers, with Grand Ole Opry appearances and International Bluegrass Music Association awards among them. With White on fiddle and Furtado and Wellington banjo, the group will share songs first recorded by the Warren County trio of Gribble, Lusk, and York back in the 1940s. This concert and discussion—co-sponsored by the Deptartment of Music, Roberson Project, and the Office of Community Building and Connections—gives listeners a chance to learn more about such music and have fun doing it! Admission is free.

Sept. 13, 6 p.m. Tour, 6:30 p.m. Concert
Shapard Tower

Meet inside of All Saints' Chapel at the iron gate at the front and climb Shapard Tower for a tour of the carillon and view the campus from the parapet of Shapard Tower. Stay afterwards or come at 6:30 p.m. to listen to a carillon concert on the Quad as evening comes and the day is done.

Sept. 13, 4 p.m.
Breslin Tower 

Join Raymond Gotko for a tour of the University's clock and change ringing bells with a demonstration.

Aug. 27 - 28, 7 - 10 p.m.
Studio Theatre, Tennessee Williams Center

Auditions now open for The Oresteia by Ellen McLaughlin. Directed by Sarah Lacy Hamilton. What does history demand? What is justice? What do we owe one other? The Greeks ask all the toughest questions. All are Welcome! Bring a digital photo. No preparation required.