Frances Cathryn (she/her) works with the Forge Project team to shape the public narrative of the organization. Through her role as editorial projects manager, she coordinates publications, works with the press, authors a monthly newsletter, and manages Forge Project's social media and digital-first journal, Forging.

“My work at Forge aims to show how cultural narratives reflect a larger colonial project that writes Indigenous people out of existence,” Frances says. “Forge exists in opposition to American settler mythology as a place of profound possibility. It is an incubator by and for Native artists and thinkers, and my goal for my work here is to build a collaborative platform for critically imagining Indigenous futures.”

Along with her work at Forge, Frances writes cultural criticism on topics ranging from the myth of American exceptionalism to marginalized historical landscapes for Frieze magazine and the Brooklyn Rail, among others. In 2021–22, she was part of New Inc. at the New Museum, working in the Future Memory track to develop an online archival project that challenges western intellectual traditions in cultural institutions.

When Frances isn’t writing and researching on Native art and history for Forge, you can probably find her walking her dog in her neighborhood in Midtown Kingston.

Emily Alfeche

Residence Manager

Sarah Biscarra Dilley (yaktitʸutitʸu yaktiłhini [Northern Chumash])

Director of Indigenous Programs & Relationality

Frances Cathryn

Editorial Projects Manager

Candice Hopkins (Carcross/Tagish First Nation)

Executive Director & Chief Curator

Amelia Russo

Collections & Exhibitions Director

Paloma Wake

Strategy & Operations Manager

Robbie Wing (Cherokee Nation Citizen)

Public & Community Programs Coordinator

Phoebe Zinman

Development Manager