Pangrok Sulap

Malaysian Printmaking Collective to Present at Big Ears and exhibit at RED Gallery

Pangrok Sulap, a Malaysian community-collective from Borneo will be in Knoxville for two-weeks in March 2025 leading up to the Big Ears Music Festival. Pangrok Sulap includes “artists, musicians and social activists with a mission to empower rural communities and the marginalized through art.” “Pangrok” is the local pronunciation of “punk rock”, and “Sulap” is a hut or a resting place usually used by farmers in Sabah, Borneo. Artists Adi Helmi Bin Jaini and Zayrul Rizo Bin Osman Leong will collaborate with students and faculty from the University of Tennessee in the creation of a large scale, community-printed woodcut. Accompanied by percussion, Pangrok Sulap prints are created through community participation.

As part of the Big Ears Festival the group has plans to conduct printing sessions in the South Garden pf the Knoxville Museum of Art, 1050 World’s Fair Park Drive on Thursday through Saturday March 27, 28, and 29th from 10:00 am – 6:00 pm during intermissions for performances in the Ann and Steve Bailey Great Hall.

During the month of March, prints from Pangrok Sulap will also be presented at RED Gallery, 130 West Jackson Ave. with an opening reception on Friday March 7, 2025

Regular Gallery Hours: 1:00 – 5:00 pm Fridays and Saturdays

Friday March 7 (plus public reception from 5–9 pm)
Saturday March 8
Friday March 14
Saturday March 15
Friday March 21
Saturday March 22

Gallery Hours During the Big Ears Festival, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Thursday March 27
Friday March 28
Saturday March 29
Sunday March 30

This project is sponsored by the UT College of Arts and Sciences, the UT School of Art and the UT Department of English and the Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts, in partnership with an AsiaNetworks Asian Embodied Learning Grant, and Scripps College (Los Angeles). For more information, contact Beauvais Lyons (blyons@utk.edu)