Endless Stories: Object-Based Learning with the Cleveland Museum of Art
Denna Iammarino
First Year Writing, Case Western Reserve UniversityDenna Iammarino is an educator and scholar whose work explores multimodality, digital rhetoric, literature, and innovative approaches to teaching and learning. Her first-year writing course, uses object-based learning and collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art to help students develop rhetorical and digital skills through the creation of digital exhibits. Her research connects early modern literature and book history with contemporary digital pedagogy, examining how evolving communication technologies shape the ways we understand authors, texts, and readers.
Sabine Kretzschmar
Education Art Collection, Cleveland Museum of ArtSabine Kretzschmar is the Director of Education Art Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, where she supports innovative approaches to learning through engagement with authentic works of art and cultural objects. Her work emphasizes the impact of object-based learning, particularly the opportunities students gain from directly examining and handling original works.
Links & References
“Education Art Collection,” Cleveland Museum of Art. Accessed May 19, 2026. https://www.clevelandart.org/learn-with-us/education-art-collection
Kador, Thomas. Object-Based Learning: Exploring Museums and Collections in Education. UCL Press. 2025. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10212322/1/Object-Based-Learning.pdf.
Sabine Kretzschmar and Shelley E. Rose, Educate. Analyze. Curate. 2026. https://pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu/eac/
Brianna Smith and Denna Iammarino, “Centuries-old texts come alive for first-year students in CWRU-Cleveland Museum of Art partnership,” CWRU Newsroom, October 30, 2025. https://case.edu/news/centuries-old-texts-come-alive-first-year-students-cwru-cleveland-museum-art-partnership
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