National Gallery of Art Resources

Affiliate Distributor for The National Gallery of Art

The Dennos Museum Center is an affiliate distributor for The National Gallery of Art, thus providing our audiences with more immediate access to the NGA's free-loan extension programs.

About Free-Loan Extension Programs & Teaching Resources

The National Gallery of Art's Education Division has created slide teaching programs, multimedia programs, videocassettes, CD ROMs, and DVDs on a variety of subjects. The programs are intended to foster awareness of the visual arts and make NGA collections accessible to a broad audience beyond the Gallery's walls. They are circulated free of charge to educational institutions, community groups, and individuals.

The National Gallery of Art's 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.

The National Gallery of Art resources available for loan through the Dennos Museum Center is as follows: (have link to list here - see attached)

Direct Loans

The process resembles that of a lending library:

Cycle — Request --> Booking --> Pick-up --> Presentation --> Return --> Inspection

Requests — Be sure to request programs well in advance of your planned presentation date. It is important that requests are received at least three weeks prior to anticipated use. Each request is booked for the desired date if possible; otherwise, programs are booked for the borrowers' alternate date. To request National Gallery of Art Resources through the Dennos Museum Center, please email Diana Bolander at dbolander@nmc.edu

Confirmation — You will receive a confirmation by mail or email noting your date for pick-up of the materials and your return date for each program scheduled for your use.

Loan Period — All direct loans may be kept for five workdays (unless otherwise noted). We ask that you return program materials promptly.