Pangrok Sulap: Malaysian Printmaking Collective
This project is sponsored by the UT College of Arts and Sciences, the UT School of Art, 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).
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 drumming, Pangrok Sulap prints are created through community participation. 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.
RED Gallery
March 1st-31st, 2025
130 W Jackson Avenue
Regular Gallery Hours: 1:00 – 5:00pm Fridays and Saturdays
- Friday March 7 (plus public reception from 5-9pm)
- Saturday March 8
- Friday March 14
- Saturday March 15
- Friday March 21
- Saturday March 22,
Big Ears Festival Hours: 10am – 6pm
Thursday March 27, Friday March 28, Saturday March 29 and Sunday March 30
