Forrest Riise Pelsue
(she/her)
Art and Design Historian and Educator
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.
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Contact
frpelsue@gmail.com
Website
opencuny.org/frpelsue
Education
- The Graduate Center, The City University of New York – PhD Art History – current
- Parsons Paris – MA History of Design & Curatorial Studies – May 2018
- University of Nevada, Reno – BA Art History; BA French Language – May 2015
Publications
Tradition, Modernisation, Création: Tensions in French Craft 1960-1990
The Journal of Modern Craft, August 2021
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
Polishing Up on History: How the Federalist Paper nail wraps help the Girl Nerd claim her stake in politics past and present
Objective, March 2019
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
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” - “Craft – Radical or conservative? – Lessons from French and Chinese history” -Guest Speaker
Garland Magazine, December 2021
Spoke to the nuances of the French definition of craft as part of a series of talks on global craft
