A member of CoCA's curatorial team, David Francis holds MFA, PhD, and Certificate degrees from the University of Washington in Poetry and Museum Studies (1992, 1996, 2003). He has taught widely as lecturer, instructor, and assistant professor in Poland (Fulbright, 1998-99), Hungary (Fulbright, 2002), Semester at Sea (2001), Kentucky (1999), Delaware (1988), and Washington, where he is currently a member of the Diverse Disciplines faculty at Pratt Fine Arts Center. Since 2007, he has also served as Senior Editor for Willamette Cultural Resources Associates, an archaeology contracting firm in Portland, Oregon.

An Academy of American Poets prizewinner, Francis has published about 25 poems over the past 20 years, often in nationally recognized literary journals such as Ploughshares, New Orleans Review, Verse, The Iowa Review, and numerous others. For a list of his online poetry, see links below:

Poems

“Mail Order Chameleon”
“The Fate of Comparative Collections”
“Lament for Roy Sullivan,” “The Wild Boy of Aveyron Reaches Puberty,” “The Arousal”
“Bird Control”

Essays:

http://museumofglass.org/blogs/art/category/book-club/

Visual Work

2008:
“Recent Work: Box Art and Text-Collage.”
CoCA Marathon
http://museumofglass.org/blogs/art/general/city-of-fallen-angels-reviews/

Curatorial Work:
2009:
“Across the Divide: Contemporary Art from the Scablands and Beyond” (Sept.)
“Heaven and Earth” Temporary Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit at Carkeek Park (Summer)
2007:
“Inquiry as Collection: Wonder Cabinets, Collage, Assemblage, CoCA Ballard, (in conjunction with Pratt Fine Arts Center; September)
2006:
“The Page Cannot be Displayed: David Francis’ Recent Work” Pratt Gallery (September)
“Shard: Textual Fragments in Contemporary Art” CoCA on Dexter (February)
1998 – 2003:
“Historic Artifacts of the Duwamish Waterway” Seattle Public Library (Queen Anne Branch)

Archaeological Consulting and Historical Research

Artwork: