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 local sculptress, devised the sculpture from Tennessee pink marble. It was installed on the walkway between Cumberland Avenue and the Carolyn P. Brown Memorial Center. Unveiled on December 7, 1994, as the closing Bicentennial Celebration event, the sculpture is entitled Terra.
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