About
Gina L. Mumma Wenger, PhD is a Professor of Art at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Her instructional topics include Art Education methods, history, curriculum design and current topics. As faculty at MSU, Mankato, she teaches art education, design, gender and art, as well as occasional classes for the Honors Program.
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My research focuses on contemporary issues in curriculum and pedagogy in Art Education with an emphasis on feminist pedagogy and critical theory. My research focuses on the teaching of history through art and my passion for documentary photography. Since 2006 I have been researching the Japanese American Concentration Camps of WWII and began researching the children's artworks from these institutions in 2008.
Past research topics have included the Visual Process Diaries of New South Wales, Australia and in the use of art instruction as tool for assimilation in the United States “Indian schools” of the early twentieth century.
I endeavor to share the history and the personal stories I have learned about the Japanese Americans during WWII. I am an active presenter of my own artwork and what I've learned. If you would like more information or you would like me to present, please make contact.
Photo by Eric Funk