David Trend

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor, Studio Art Department, University of California, Irvine, CA  (1997-present).

Director, University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, UC Office of the President, Oakland, CA (1998-2005). Administration of a system-wide Multi-Campus Research Unit (MRU) currently hosted by UCI. The institute funds  artistic research and creative work on the ten campuses of the University of California.
    
Chair, Studio Art Department, University of California, Irvine, CA  (1997-2001). Administration of areas of ceramics, digital imaging, installation, drawing, painting, performance, photography, and video. Responsibilities for curriculum, personnel, facilities, scheduling, and budgeting for a department comprising 30 faculty and staff.

Dean, Creative Arts Division, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA  (1996-1997). Administration of departments of art and art history, dance/theater, film/TV, music, photography, and the Euphrat Museum of Art. Responsibilities for curriculum, personnel, facilities, scheduling, and budgeting for a division comprising 85 faculty and staff .

Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Studies Program, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA. (1995-1996).  Overseeing college-wide programs in team teaching, linked courses, learning communities, and integrated studies.

Coordinator and faculty member, MA Program in Interdisciplinary Arts, Inter-Arts Center, San Francisco State University (1992-1995), San Francisco, CA. Administration, admissions, advising, curriculum design, chairing MA thesis committees. Teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in liberal studies, education, history, theory, studio practice, and criticism.   
    
Executive director, Center for Social Research and Education, San Francisco, CA (1993-1996). Program design and implementation, fundraising, hiring and training of staff, administration of finances, coordination with cooperating institutions, publicity, board liaison.

Executive editor, Socialist Review, San Francisco, CA (1993-1996). Solicitation of contents, supervision of production, fundraising, publicity, research and writing, graphic design, electronic page make-up and layout, circulation and distribution.

Research associate, Center for Cultural Studies, Miami University, Oxford, OH (1991-1992). Research in curriculum theory and cultural studies.
    
Director of programs, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA (1990-1992). Solicitation of programming and residency proposals, administration of program advisory panels and  juries, development of education and publication programs, fund raising and public relations.

Editor, Afterimage,  Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY (1985-90). Solicitation and selection of contents, supervision of production, fundraising, publicity, research and writing, graphic design, electronic page make-up and layout, Macintosh editorial computer operations, hiring and training of staff, administration of finances, circulation and distribution.

Lecturer, State University of New York College at Brockport (Art), Brockport, NY (1987-90). Courses taught: "Media Criticism and Theory," "Institutions of Culture," "Critical Writing Seminar," "Basic Photography,”  “Intermediate Photography."
    
Managing editor, Afterimage, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY (1980-1985). Critical and news writing, layout and design, publicity, supervision of production, administration of finances and distribution.

Artist-in-residence (Video and Writing), Rochester City School District, Rochester, NY (1981-82). Designing and implementing a program to improve the literacy skills of urban high school students; editing and producing a book (Between the Lines) on the subject.