Tycho Horan

Critic - Graphic Design

Tycho Horan (she/they) is a trans nonbinary designer, printmaker and teacher in Providence. They co-create community arts spaces where marginalized people can creatively thrive and work in solidarity with movements for collective liberation. They work at the intersections of analogue and digital print technologies, making publications, prints, posters, video, and websites in collaboration with artists, poets and community organizations. Their practice also includes teaching, tinkering, spreadsheeting and all the other forms of maintenance work that facilitate cooperative projects.

Horan is a founding member and the current Studio Director of the Binch Press / Queer.Archive.Work Studio, a community print and publishing studio in Providence. They have worked with community organizations such as AS220, Direct Action for Rights and Equality, New Urban Arts and ¡CityArts!. They were a 2022 NAS Creative Community Fellow and have received support from DESIGNXRI, the Interlace Grant Fund and RI Council for the Humanities. Their work has been exhibited at Providence College Galleries, PVDFest, Foo Fest, 159 Sutton and TRANSFER.

Courses

Fall 2023 Courses

GRAPH 3319-01 - WKSHP: SCREENPRINTING
Level Undergraduate
Unit Graphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Fall 2023
Credits 1
Format Workshop
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

GRAPH 3319-01

WKSHP: SCREENPRINTING

Level Undergraduate
Unit Graphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Fall 2023
Credits 1
Format Workshop
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2023-09-08 to 2023-09-29
Times: F | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM Instructor(s): Tycho Horan Location(s): Design Center, Room 301 Enrolled / Capacity: 8 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This workshop will focus on establishing a basic understanding of a variety of screen printing techniques and how to make use of those techniques in making your projects. Through in-class demos and out-of-class assignments, this workshop will encourage interplay between screen prints and digital prints. The class will start with simple paper stencils and move quickly into making screens from images and text generated digitally. No previous experience required.

Open to Sophomore, Junior, Senior or Graduate Graphic Design Students only. Please contact the instructor to be added to the waitlist.

Elective

GRAPH 3319-02 - WKSHP: SCREENPRINTING
Level Undergraduate
Unit Graphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Fall 2023
Credits 1
Format Workshop
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

GRAPH 3319-02

WKSHP: SCREENPRINTING

Level Undergraduate
Unit Graphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Fall 2023
Credits 1
Format Workshop
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2023-10-06 to 2023-10-27
Times: F | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM Instructor(s): Tycho Horan Location(s): Design Center, Room 301 Enrolled / Capacity: 8 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This workshop will focus on establishing a basic understanding of a variety of screen printing techniques and how to make use of those techniques in making your projects. Through in-class demos and out-of-class assignments, this workshop will encourage interplay between screen prints and digital prints. The class will start with simple paper stencils and move quickly into making screens from images and text generated digitally. No previous experience required.

Open to Sophomore, Junior, Senior or Graduate Graphic Design Students only. Please contact the instructor to be added to the waitlist.

Elective

GRAPH 3319-03 - WKSHP: SCREENPRINTING
Level Undergraduate
Unit Graphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Fall 2023
Credits 1
Format Workshop
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

GRAPH 3319-03

WKSHP: SCREENPRINTING

Level Undergraduate
Unit Graphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Fall 2023
Credits 1
Format Workshop
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2023-11-03 to 2023-12-01
Times: F | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM Instructor(s): Tycho Horan Location(s): Design Center, Room 301 Enrolled / Capacity: 8 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This workshop will focus on establishing a basic understanding of a variety of screen printing techniques and how to make use of those techniques in making your projects. Through in-class demos and out-of-class assignments, this workshop will encourage interplay between screen prints and digital prints. The class will start with simple paper stencils and move quickly into making screens from images and text generated digitally. No previous experience required.

Open to Sophomore, Junior, Senior or Graduate Graphic Design Students only. Please contact the instructor to be added to the waitlist.

Elective

Spring 2024 Courses

GRAPH 3320-01 - EXPERIMENTAL PUBLISHING STUDIO
Level Undergraduate
Unit Graphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Spring 2024
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

GRAPH 3320-01

EXPERIMENTAL PUBLISHING STUDIO

Level Undergraduate
Unit Graphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Spring 2024
Credits 3
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-02-15 to 2024-05-24
Times: W | 11:20 AM - 4:20 PM Instructor(s): Tycho Horan Location(s): Design Center, Room 701 Enrolled / Capacity: 12 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

Publishing has never been a fixed notion. What is publishing today? remains a relevant inquiry, but with an increasingly expanded field of response, as platforms, channels and modes of production mutate and multiply. Let's begin with the post, exposing its origins as a physical note publicly nailed to a piece of wood. Its descendants persist today, plainly visible on the wall, in the feed and in the stream as traces of a deeper history of documents - the scriptural economy. Is posting (always) publishing? We'll examine substrate, blankness and the possibility of saying nothing as a post-media publishing strategy. And as certain legacies recede (privacy, authorship, copyright), how is publishing still "making public?" Let's unpack (and entangle) these and other ways to explore the public circulation of work in a post-digital space. We'll draw trajectories to and from the emergence of the networked artist in the 20th century, into the last twenty years, and particularly around the last two, as self-publishing becomes more and more inseparable from the artist's ambient practice (and work) itself. The semester will be devoted to the creation of our own performing publishing studio, disseminating work as a highly diffused, ongoing performance, rather than discrete events. The development of publishing manifestos and projects, working in public, research-based exploration, non-traditional tools and platforms, experimentation and collaboration will be encouraged.

Open to Junior, Senior or Graduate Graphic Design Students.

Elective

GRAPH 3181-03 - WKSHP: PRE-PRESS AND RISOGRAPH PRINTING
Level Undergraduate
Unit Graphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Spring 2024
Credits 1
Format Workshop
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

GRAPH 3181-03

WKSHP: PRE-PRESS AND RISOGRAPH PRINTING

Level Undergraduate
Unit Graphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Spring 2024
Credits 1
Format Workshop
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-02-16 to 2024-03-08
Times: F | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM Instructor(s): Tycho Horan Location(s): Design Center, Room 701 Enrolled / Capacity: 10 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This workshop will use Risograph printing to combine practical prepress skills with experimental form-making. The aim of the workshop is to teach students to consider the craft and value of well-planned files to produce high-quality outputs that can be replicated and shared. By focusing on the Risograph printer students will work within a series of technical constraints that will require creative solutions as well as a strong understanding of this particular printing process, color, paper, and file preparation.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $40.00

Open to Sophomore, Junior, Senior or Graduate Graphic Design Students.

Elective

GRAPH 3181-02 - WKSHP: PRE-PRESS AND RISOGRAPH PRINTING
Level Undergraduate
Unit Graphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Spring 2024
Credits 1
Format Workshop
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

GRAPH 3181-02

WKSHP: PRE-PRESS AND RISOGRAPH PRINTING

Level Undergraduate
Unit Graphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Spring 2024
Credits 1
Format Workshop
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-03-15 to 2024-04-12
Times: F | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM Instructor(s): Tycho Horan Location(s): Design Center, Room 701 Enrolled / Capacity: 10 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This workshop will use Risograph printing to combine practical prepress skills with experimental form-making. The aim of the workshop is to teach students to consider the craft and value of well-planned files to produce high-quality outputs that can be replicated and shared. By focusing on the Risograph printer students will work within a series of technical constraints that will require creative solutions as well as a strong understanding of this particular printing process, color, paper, and file preparation.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $40.00

Open to Sophomore, Junior, Senior or Graduate Graphic Design Students.

Elective

GRAPH 3181-01 - WKSHP: PRE-PRESS AND RISOGRAPH PRINTING
Level Undergraduate
Unit Graphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Spring 2024
Credits 1
Format Workshop
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

GRAPH 3181-01

WKSHP: PRE-PRESS AND RISOGRAPH PRINTING

Level Undergraduate
Unit Graphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Spring 2024
Credits 1
Format Workshop
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-04-19 to 2024-05-10
Times: F | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM Instructor(s): Tycho Horan Location(s): Design Center, Room 701 Enrolled / Capacity: 10 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

This workshop will use Risograph printing to combine practical prepress skills with experimental form-making. The aim of the workshop is to teach students to consider the craft and value of well-planned files to produce high-quality outputs that can be replicated and shared. By focusing on the Risograph printer students will work within a series of technical constraints that will require creative solutions as well as a strong understanding of this particular printing process, color, paper, and file preparation.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $40.00

Open to Sophomore, Junior, Senior or Graduate Graphic Design Students.

Elective