Attended the Kansas City Art Institute night school while working as a secretary. Lived in Wichita, Kansas before moving to Lindsborg, Kansas. She earned a reputation for her watercolors, oils and acrylics of rural landscapes, animals and architecture in the Midwest. Forsberg has completed major liturgical commissions, as well as paintings and designs that celebrate her Swedish heritage.

Member: Artists' Guild of Wichita; Kansas Watercolor Society; Kansas Academy of Oil Painters.

Exhibitions: Wichita Art Assoc.; Kansas Watercolor Society; Sandzén Memorial Art Gallery, 1997.

SOURCES:
Susan Craig, "Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945)"
Kansas! (2nd issue, 1983); http://www.maletaforsberg.com//Biography.html, accessed Apr. 23, 2009.

This and over 1,750 other biographies can be found in Biographical Dictionary of Kansas Artists (active before 1945) compiled by Susan V. Craig, Art & Architecture Librarian at University of Kansas....