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Kelsey Dusenka is a designer and educator whose praxis is process-oriented and is informed by a critical curiosity of tools. She is interested in leveraging the poetic potentials inherent to the pragmatic.

Alongside teaching, her and her partner, Kelsey Elder, run a small studio, Addition Projects. Their clients include Carnegie Mellon University Press, Center for the Arts in Society, Coterie Baby, Cranbrook Art Museum, CrossFit, Fjord Gallery, Open Road Tuning, Rhymesayers Entertainment, the Swiss Institute, and University of Richmond Museums.

Her work has been recognized with a Judge’s Choice Award from Society of Typographic Arts’ STA 100, she’s 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.

She is currently an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the Rhode Island School of Design, and has 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.

CV available upon request.