Kelsey Dusenka

Kelsey Dusenka is a designer and educator whose praxis is process-oriented and is informed by a critical curiosity of tools. In her freelance practice, she works with small businesses and cultural clients to produce visual identities & systems, publications, and web-based projects.

She has designed several published books; 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; and has studio work published in Let’s Make Letters! by Kelcey Gray. From 2016–19, she was the Studio Manager for Flatten Image (Richmond, VA), the only woman-owned and operated fine art printing studio specializing in fine art printing, custom color profiling, photographic imaging, retouching, restoration, fine art reproductions, and 19th century photographic print processes. From 2018–2022, she was the designer for publishing imprint ultraterrestrial.xyz (Pittsburgh, PA & Richmond, VA), which designed and published small edition photography books by feminist voices.

At CMU, she teaches between the School of Design and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute. She has previously taught within the design programs at Rhode Island School of Design, Roger Williams University, and Virginia Commonwealth University; and has served as guest critic at Rhode Island School of Design, Otis College of Art and Design Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She earned an MFA in 2D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art, and a BFA in Graphic Design from Minneapolis College of Art.