Forrest Riise Pelsue (she/her) is an educator, 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 art and design history. 

Forrest received her Master’s degree from Parsons Paris, a branch of The New School, in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies. While in Paris, she collaborated with the Monnaie de Paris and interned at the Mobilier National. Now based in Brooklyn, she has held fellowships at the Museum of Arts and Design and Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and worked on the ASK team at the Brooklyn Museum. As an independent researcher she has worked with curator Anne Dressen of the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris and with craft scholar Glenn Adamson on his book Craft: An American History. She is a 2025-26 Marron Research Consortium Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art.

Forrest continues to research in museums and archives across France and the United States. She is currently pursuing doctoral studies at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York and teaching at the City College of New York.