Paul Soulellis
Paul Soulellis is a Providence-based graphic designer, artist and educator. His practice includes teaching, writing and experimental publishing, with a focus on queer methodologies and network culture.
He is the founder and director of Queer.Archive.Work (QAW), a nonprofit community reading room, publishing studio and project space founded in 2020 that serves the Providence community and beyond. QAW supports artists and writers with free, open access to space and resources for experimental publishing.
Soulellis' own publishing practice includes collaborative projects focused on urgency and collective care that feature artists and writers who reject normative narratives through techniques like interference and refusal. His many editions of Printed Web, Queer.Archive.Work, and Urgency Reader are in special collections at The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker Art Center, Yale University and many other institutions worldwide.
Additionally, Soulellis is the founder of Library of the Printed Web, a physical archive devoted to web-to-print artists’ books, zines and other printout matter. The collection was acquired by MoMA Library in 2017.
Soulellis' talks and writing are featured extensively in publications on network culture, contemporary art and design, and experimental publishing. These include Net Art Anthology (Rhizome); Private, Public, Secret (Aperture); Publishing Manifestos (MIT Press;, Queering the Collection (GenderFail/ICP); and Time, Forward! (VAC Venice).
Academic areas of interest
Experimental publishing, queer theory, archival practices, network culture, publishing as artistic practice, social practice, community practice, relational design, net art, typography, risograph, printing, zine culture, radical/urgent publishing, and vernacular practices
Courses
Fall 2023 Courses
GRAPH 3298-01
DEGREE PROJECT
SECTION DESCRIPTION
The degree project is an independent project in graphic design subject to the department's explicit approval, as the final requirement for graduation for the BFA Degree. Visiting critics will be invited to review the completed project. Students are only eligible to enroll in this course if all credit requirements for the degree are complete in this final semester and the student is enrolled with full-time status. Graphic Design students on advanced standing who wish to be considered for Degree project in the Fall of their senior year must apply to the department head.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Senior Graphic Design Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Graphic Design
Spring 2024 Courses
GRAPH 322G-01
GRADUATE SEMINAR II
SECTION DESCRIPTION
The objective of this course is to assist students in the development of methodologies for exploration, investigation, and construction of a well-designed proposal of thesis work. This seminar provides students with a variety of discursive and exploratory means to identify, locate, reflect on, and develop areas of interest to pursue in the evolution of individual thesis planning, culminating in the presentation of the thesis proposal.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Graduate Graphic Design Students.
Major Requirement | MFA Graphic Design