McDougall is a curator who specializes in interdisciplinary approaches in public educational environments. She was the founding director of the Center for Art & Inquiry at the Exploratorium. The Center serves as a research and development laboratory for the arts within the larger learning laboratory of the Exploratorium. She was the first curator of art and design at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts; and a founding collaborator of the Studio for Urban Projects.
She has taught as an adjunct professor in both the MFA and Curatorial Practice programs at California College of the Arts. McDougall recently moved to Philadelphia, where she is pursuing a long-term project, The Garden of Forking Paths. She is a trustee of the Museum of Jurassic Technology, and serves on the board of the Seed Fund.
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