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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAdrian Gronseth_Artist ResumeADRIAN GRONSETH Iowa City, IA 52240 • (909) 576-6949 • adrian-gronseth@uiowa.edu Education University Iowa Expected Graduation: May 2025  Master of Arts, History o Specialization: 19th/20th Century U.S. Music History o Advisor: Nick Yablon University of California, Santa Barbara June 2014  Bachelor of Arts, English; Minor: History  Honors: magna cum laude; Distinction in the Major; Phi Beta Kappa Recent Experience Teaching Assistant / University of Iowa / Iowa City, IA 08/2023 to Present  Facilitate weekly discussion sections of 25 undergraduates per class across a range of History Department courses  Foster students’ analytical and writing skills, and teach them how to engage with primary and secondary sources  Create lesson plans, grade assignments and papers, communicate with professors, and address students’ concerns Vice President & Colloquium Chair / UI Graduate History Society / Iowa City, IA 10/2024 to Present  Organize a colloquium series for History graduate students to share their research and engage with relevant speakers Graduate Student Committee / Open Rivers / Minneapolis, MN 09/2024 to Present  Collaborate with graduate students and editorial staff on an open-access digital journal dedicated to water issues  Summarize articles, curate collections of content, and develop creative and scholarly projects for the journal BlueGAP Team Member / BlueGAP Project / Iowa City, IA 05/2024 to 08/2024  Created a sound collage called “Monocrop Music” which layered interviews, field recordings, and musical compositions to chronicle the history of industrial agriculture and water pollution in Iowa  Visited local farms, water treatment plants, and environmental organizations to learn about nitrogen pollution  Worked with graduate students, faculty members, and community members across a range of disciplines and fields Residencies and Awards Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (Nominated) / University of Iowa / Iowa City, IA 2025 Artist-in-Residence / Stones River National Battlefield / Murfreesboro, TN 10/2021 to 11/2021 Grand Prize Lyric Contest Winner / American Songwriter Magazine / Nashville, TN 11/2017 Presentations “Monocrop Music: The History of Iowa Agriculture and Water Pollution through Sound” October 4, 2024 University of Iowa School of Music Colloquium “Hemispheric Brass: Mexico, the Military, and Early New Orleans Jazz” April 6, 2024 Midwest Graduate Music Consortium Conference “’No Place Like Home:’ Songs of Home and History at Stones River National Battlefield” November 6, 2021 Stones River National Battlefield Video Link: “No Place Like Home” Works-in-Progress “The Music of a Massacre: Listening to the New Orleans Race Riot of 1866” Expected completion: May 2025 Master’s Paper / University of Iowa / Department of History “’Down at The Mill’: Music, Memories, and Mortality” First episode completed in December 2024; others TBD Podcast & Oral History Project / University of Iowa / School of Music “Monocrop Music: The History of Iowa Agriculture and Water Pollution through Sound” Expected publication: 2025 Sound Collage / University of Iowa / BlueGAP Project Gronseth 2 Publications “Grand Prize Lyric Contest Winner Adrian Gronseth Co-Writes with John Paul White; February 2018 Records Demo on Music Row,” American Songwriter Magazine Website “Highway Sky,” American Songwriter Magazine June 2017 “Incandescent Caves,” The Catalyst Literary Arts Magazine, Issue 5 Spring 2015 “Ode to Holly,” The Catalyst Literary Arts Magazine, Issue 2 Spring 2014 Past Experience Senior Writer / Dallas Writing Project / Austin, TX 01/2022 to 08/2023 Writer and Editor / Governor’s Woods Foundation & Clio / Austin, TX 10/2019 to 01/2022 Piano Instructor and Music Director / Cheviot Hills Recreation Center / Los Angeles, CA 06/2016 to 08/2019 Performing Musician / Independent / Los Angeles, CA & Austin, TX 11/2015 to 03/2020 Apartment Manager / L.A. Housing Solutions / Los Angeles, CA 02/2016 to 08/2017 Writing Tutor / Santa Barbara City College and Premier Tutoring / Santa Barbara, CA 08/2014 to 11/2016 Editor and Instructor / The Catalyst Literary Arts Magazine / Santa Barbara, CA 02/2014 to 12/2014 Catering Supervisor / UCen Catering / Santa Barbara, CA 01/2012 to 06/2013