Forrest Riise Pelsue is an eduator, writer, and historian whose work focuses on craft and making in art and design.She is interested in the objects that surround us in daily life, today and in the past, and the stories they can tell about our politics, economy, and society. In order to unpack these structures, she strives to take a feminist and anticolonial approach to design history.
Sisterhoods—The Amazons of Bourges and their distant cousins in Charleston (UK) and Brooklyn (USA) By Anne Dressen, translated from the French by Forrest Pelsue Paris LA, June 2021
Turning Up the Volume: Exhibition review of The Future of Craft Part 1 at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York CRAFTS, November 2018
Positions
Research and curatorial assistant for the exhibition Les Flammes: l’Âge de la Céramique (October 2021-Feburary 2022) with Anne Dressen, chief curator, and Margot Nguyen, assistant curator, Contemporary Art, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
Projects
“Distance(s) and the In-Between”: Graduate Student Symposium– Presenter Department of Art History, University of Kansas, November 2023 Presented the paper “Kanak, Algerian, Communard: Three Worlds Pictured on Kanaky-New Caledonia, 1870-1883”