About Free-Loan Teaching Resources The National Gallery of Art's Division of Education provides slide teaching programs, multimedia programs, videocassettes, CD ROMs, and DVDs to millions of viewers each year. These programs are intended to foster awareness of the visual arts and make Gallery collections accessible to a broad audience beyond the Gallery's walls. They are circulated free of charge to educational institutions, community groups, and individuals throughout the United States. Our Loan Programs meet national standards in the visual arts for kindergarten through grade 12. A variety of artists, subjects, techniques, and styles are examined. Many programs contain suggestions for related activities and questions designed to stimulate discussion of the art and artists, of cultural and historical issues. Slide teaching programs are designed to permit flexibility in use. We encourage you to review them, select those images and information that are most useful to your teaching needs, and to adapt and shape the materials to your specific instructional objectives.
Direct Loans Cycle: Request --> Booking --> Shipping --> Presentation --> Return --> Inspection Requests
Loan materials may be requested online. Search the online catalogue by curriculum topic, subject, artist, or format and add desired programs to your cart. Alternatively, you may fax or mail a printable order form. See how to order for complete details. You may also request a printed catalogue. Confirmation
Loan Period
The borrower pays only for return postage (media mail rate).
Affiliate Loans
Organizations with noncommercial television capability may request permission for broadcast and/or duplication of selected videocassette programs from video master tapes, provided after completion of a special written license agreement. Programs may not be broadcast, reproduced, or transferred to another medium or format without special license from the National Gallery of Art. Requests for permission to broadcast or reproduce programs must be submitted in writing. We now also offer limited online or digital use to institutions for presentation over a non commercial (educational) (public) server that delivers media-on-demand online through a password-protected environment or closed server. If such permission is requested for online or digital use, the licensee guarantees that no still-frame capturing of images, duplication of images, or excerpting of motion footage can be made from DVD copies, downloaded, or used for any other purpose than online viewing. If you wish to participate as an affiliate distributor, or if you would like to broadcast or reproduce programs, please contact us to request an application. |