Kelsey Dusenka

Kelsey Dusenka is a designer and educator whose practice is process oriented. Using attention and curiosity as tools for systematic exploration and generative production, her work seeks the poetics inherent to the pragmatic.

Her work has been recognized with a Judge’s Choice Award from Society of Typographic Arts’ STA 100, she has spoken at TypeCon about process-oriented pedagogy, and her work has been publicly collected by the Center for Book Arts in New York and the Special Collections Library at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Alongside teaching, she and her partner, Kelsey Elder, run a small studio, Addition Projects. Their clients include Carnegie Mellon University Press, the Center for the Arts in Society, Coterie Baby, Cranbrook Art Museum, CrossFit, Fjord Gallery, the Swiss Institute, and University of Richmond Museums.

Kelsey previously taught at Carnegie Mellon University in the School of Design and Human Computer Interaction Institute, Roger Williams University, and Virginia Commonwealth University. She earned an MFA in 2D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and a BFA in Graphic Design from Minneapolis College of Art.