Pangrok Sulap, a community-based collective from Sabah, Borneo includes artists, musicians and  social activists with a mission to empower rural communities through art. “Pangrok” is the local pronunciation of “punk rock,” and “Sulap” is a hut or a resting place usually used by local farmers from Malaysia.  During a two-week resiency they will work with students and faculty from the University of Tennessee in the creation of a large woodcut that will be printed with community participation at the South Garden of the Knoxville Museum of Art during the Big Ears Festival.

RED Gallery Exhibition
130 West Jackson Ave.
March 7 – 30, 2025
 

Public Reception
Friday March 7, 5:00 – 9:00pm
 

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

Big Ears Festival Printing
Knoxville Museum of Art
March 27 – 30, 10:00am – 6:00pm

This project is made possible by the UT College of Arts and Sciences with a Haines-Morris Endowment Grant and the Division of Arts and Humanities Stategic Excellence Fund, 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, Scripps College (Los Angeles). Additional support is provided thorugh RED Gallery and the Big Ears Festival.