Visual Notebook
Visual Culture Seminar / 2021
Paul Soulellis Website

MPaul Soulellis is an artist and educator based in Providence, RI. His practice includes teaching, writing, and experimental publishing, with a focus on queer methodologies and network culture. He is founder/director of Queer.Archive.Work, an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports artists, writers, and activists with access to space, tools, and other resources for queer publishing. He is also Department Head and Associate Professor of Graphic Design at Rhode Island School of Design.

Printed book as container

Site-specific publishing as event

Library of the Printed Web

“Publishing as an artistic practice.”

“Always questioning, always going deeper to examine the less visible ideaology that are looking behind the design products that govern how we live and communicate.”

“It’s an active protest, it’s an art, it’s a gesture of making public, it’s an urgent artifact that contains the potential for radical action.”

Queer.Archive.Work

“Consider it call to action as design students to really use these principles of urgencraft to reshape them, add to them, share them, and keep them around as a reminder for ourselves that art and design can be used to loosen power..”