assist Ewing in teaching. In 1957-58 there were a one man show at the Audigier Gallery, University of Tennessee and Special Mention in watercolor at the Southeastern Annual. He exhibited in the Mid-South Annual in Memphis, TN and the State Arts Festival, Nashville, TN and received awards in each. In 1959-60 he was given a one man show at the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, was included in the Pennsylvania Academy’s 15th Annual and paired with Walter H. Stevens for a two-man exhibit at the University of Kentucky Art Gallery, Lexington.

These years are marked by a frenetic pace, exhibiting at every possible venue available and winning a multitude of awards and prizes including: Delta Annual, Arkansas Art Center 1962-66. He became a Founding member of the art group “The Knoxville Seven”, and won the Mead Corporation Painting of the Year, Atlanta, GA and also 1st Prize Watercolor Society of Alabama Annual. Then the Grumbacher Purchase Award and traveling exhibition from Watercolor U.S.A., Springfield, MO in 1965, and in 1966 his work was

chosen to represent the State of Tennessee in the Governor’s National Circuit Exhibition, was included in the International Festival of Fine Art, Hartford, CT, and in 1966 he became a full time Assistant Professor of Painting at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

In 1969 Sublett was included in the ongoing Art in U.S. Embassies Program. More awards in the next decade culminated in Carl being elected into the National Academy of Design, NY in 1976 and in the same year he was made full professor at the University of Tennessee. In the next few years there were retrospectives and invitational exhibits, a one man show in Bern, Switzerland, and a major solo exhibit at the Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN and an American Watercolor Exhibition at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan. Carl was a panelist for the Symposium: Images and Icons in Contemporary Watercolor Painting, Spring Green, WS sponsored by the Watercolor U.S.A. Honor Society, and juror in many regional competitions.