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The Past Is Not What It Used to Be
Gerri Gribi is an entertaining educator, consultant, musician, and historian who brings America's "unsung" history to life. Through engaging performances, workshops, collaborative projects and web sites, she integrates the arts, humanities and technology to illuminate our past, sparking interest and understanding of our diverse shared cultures.
She made her first television appearance at the age of 13, and at 15 sang as one of the youngest members of the renowned Cincinnati May Festival Chorus. But her first love had always been folk music, and her interest in using traditional songs as a means of teaching history began while she worked for the Education Department of the Cincinnati Historical Society from 1975 until 1978.
Disturbed by the fact that all the "women's" traditional songs she knew or heard portrayed women negatively, she set out to recover songs that showed women in a more positive light. With resources ranging from the Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, to a porch in West Virginia (and most recently, the Internet) her research has unearthed songs which portray our foremothers more realistically as workers, creators, survivors and dreamers.
A frequent guest on TV and radio, her original music has been featured in a variety of media outlets, including ABC Prime Time Live. Her CD, The Womansong Collection, has been widely and enthusiastically reviewed, both at home and abroad. She has been ranked among the Top Ten Artists by the National Women's Radio Play List. She has lent her creative hand to numerous media projects, including composing and performing music for the award-winning documentary Poverty Shock:Anywoman's Story.
With an advanced degree in Interdisciplinary Studies/African American Studies, she is an Adjunct Instructor for the University of Wisconsin Office of Outreach, and Silver Lake College. She regularly writes about topics in women's history, African American Studies and music, and has been published in academic journals as well as popular periodicals and newspapers.
Gerri first ventured into cyberspace in 1993 and by 1995 was teaching others how to use the Internet. She created and curates Beyond Black History Month: The African American Studies Toolkit for Grades K-12, awarded the 2004 Johnson Subvention Award by the Society for American Music and selected as School Library Journal's "Site of the Week." She created and edited the Women's Studies Category of the Netscape Open Directory Project, and writes an irreverent monthly Internet column for The Scene.
Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
Thomas More College, Ft. Mitchell, KY
Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
Beyond Black History Month: The African American Studies Toolkit. <http://creativefolk.com/toolkit/home.html>
- School Library Journal's Site of the Week for 12/17/02
- Winner, 2004 Johnson Non-print Subvention Award - Society for American Music
"The African American Studies Toolkit." Knowledge Quest on the Web (March/April 2003) <http://www.ala.org/aaslkqtemplate.cfm?Section=On-line_In_Sites&Template=/MembersOnly.cfm&ContentID=5911>
"'I Want to Be a Cowboy, Sweetheart': Music and Women's Studies." Feminist Collections 20 (Spring 1999): 17-19.
"Beyond Cybersex: The Internet for Folkies." Sing Out! 43 (Winter 1999): 78-80.
"Womenfolk: Bringing Women's Music to the National Guard." MINERVA: A Quarterly Report on Women in the Military 7 (FALL/WINTER 1989): 1-4.
"Performing in Prisons: The Captive Audience." HOT WIRE, The Journal of Women's Music and Culture (July 1987): 10-11 and 62.
75 Years of Girl Scouting Green Bay: Lac Baie Girl Scout Council, 1987.
The Arts Resource Guide for Northeast Wisconsin. Green Bay WI: Lac Baie Girl Scout Council and Kellogg Associated Bank, 1982.
The Arts Resource Guide For Cincinnati. Cincinnati: The Project for Cincinnati, 1977.
Women's History Month Celebration, Fort Monroe, VA
Federal Women's Program, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton VA
Federal Women's Program, Department of the Treasury, Parkersburg WV
Women's Equality Day Celebration, Federal Women's Program, DesMoinse, IA
California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems Conference for Volunteers
- Monterey CA
Health Care Association of New York State Auxiliary Services Conference
- Cooperstown NY
Women's Center 25th Anniversary - Old Dominion University VA
Marquis Lecture & Performance Series - Coe College IA
Office of Multicultural Programs - Valparaiso University IN
Leadership Council - Roger Williams University RI
Conference on the Advancement of Women in Higher Education - Texas Tech
University TX
A Celebration of Appalachian Women - Eastern Kentucky University KY
Banners Humanities Series, McNeese State Univeristy, LA
Batte Fine Arts Series, Wingate University NC
Center for Gender Studies, Radford University VA
Faculty Senate Artists & Lectures Series - University of Nebraska at
Kearney NE
Coffeehouse Series, Providence College - Providence RI
Words for Social Justice: Visiting Writer Series - Spalding University,
KY
The Girl Scout Council of River Trails Annual Meeting & Awards Banquet
- Rochester MN
State Vocational Equity Conference - Honolulu HI
Door County Public Library System - WI
American Family Insurance - Madison WI
Glen Hills Middle School - Milwaukee WI
University of Wisconsin- Green Bay: Education Outreach
Adjunct Instructor. Facilitate the online course "Using Technology
to Enhance Student Learning."
Cooperative Educational Service Agency (CESA) #9, Tomahawk, WI
Developed a web
resource to support Standards-based middle school math, and assisted
the Project Manager with additional web site component and utilization strategies.
The Einstein Project Technology Academy, Green Bay WI
Internet resources and web site building workshops.
Lesley University Graduate School of Arts & Social Sciences, Cambridge
MA.
Learning Community Residency Internet and library resources workshop.
Student Activities, University of Wisconsin Green Bay.
Workshop: African American Studies resources on the web.
PROJECT PARTICIPATION, NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
- School Library Journal's Site of the Week for 12/17/02
- 2004 Johnson Non-print Subvention Award - Society for American Music
