Chase Dougherty is a curator of contemporary art with formal exhibition design training. She is currently the Gretchen Hupfel Curator of Contemporary Art at The Delaware Contemporary, where she has curated and coordinated over fifty exhibitions featuring emerging and middle career artists within the Mid-Atlantic region. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Museum Exhibition Planning + Design from University of the Arts and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Sonoma State University.
Her curatorial practice is based on collaboratively exploring how to engage audiences with contemporary art through designed interventions; a continuation of her graduate thesis, Introduction as Interface: Activating the Exhibition Threshold with Multisensory Design. The continued findings of which were published for the 2022 SEGD Academic Summit, where she presented updated research and analysis. |
She has over a decade of professional arts experience and has provided key knowledge and technical expertise to the success of projects through research, writing, development, and design. Additionally, she serves as adjunct faculty at Delaware College of Art and Design, where she has developed and taught several art history seminars.
In 2015, she founded Art Talk Collective (archived), an online platform dedicated to art writing without academic formality, encouraging contributors to be confident in their artistic interests and opinions. Over the course of four years, Art Talk Collective published over a hundred articles on contemporary art topics, artist interviews, and exhibition reviews. Her other writing accolades include Art Maze Mag and the National Association for Museum Exhibitions, as well as contributions to several artist catalogs. |