Jenna Green

Jenna S. Green (she/her) is a contemplative artist and scholar, museum educator, and interdisciplinary arts researcher. As a PhD Student in Art & Visual Culture Education at the University of Arizona, Jenna’s research centers trauma-aware art museum education and the care work of museums, contemplative and embodied pedagogies, medical humanities and arts in health. Jenna’s research and praxis is informed by a feminist philosophical ethic of care, disability studies, and post-critical museology and is situated within qualitative and arts-based methodologies.

Jenna holds an M.A. in Museology from the University of Washington and a B.A. in Anthropology from Arizona State University. She has worked in museums since 2017, focusing on education and public programming, and at institutions across the US including the Glass Art Society, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation – Taliesin West and currently, the Center for Creative Photography. Jenna is also the Co-Curator of the Healing Art Program at Tucson Medical Center bringing art and music into the hospital to enhance the environment for patients, staff and visitors.

Jenna was awarded a University Fellowship from 2022-2023 and was a 2023 Medici Scholar. She serves as the Museum Representative Board Member of the National Art Education Association’s Caucus on the Spiritual in Art Education, is the Director of Community and sits on the Board of the National EMP Network, and is an editorial reviewer for the Journal of Museum Education.