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 We will offer a selection of in-person and virtual field trips (using Zoom) for winter/spring 2024. Requests for winter/spring field trips (January 8 – May 31, 2024) will be accepted from December 1, 2023 – April 5, 2024.
 On this page In-Person Field Trips Virtual Field Trips
 In-Person School Field Trips Free field trips at the National Gallery of Art complement and enhance classroom learning. During interactive field trips, your students will look carefully at original works of art, ask questions, and develop their own interpretations. Creative writing, sketching, and perspective-taking will help students uncover complexity and cultivate personal connections to art. Students will experience a powerful shared learning community where all voices are valued.
 Age 4 through Grade 3
 Age 4 through Grade 1
							
							Art Tales: Sky Color
							
								Designed for our youngest learners, students will use their imaginations to explore works of art and discover how some artists depict the natural world.
 Age 4 through Grade 1
							
							Art Tales: Not a Box
							
								This field trip includes reading Not a Box by author Antoinette Portis, exploring two works of art, and an art-making experience.
 Age 4 through Grade 3
							
							Art Investigators: Faces and Places
							
								Art Investigators use their skills to look for clues and use their imaginations to explore portraits, landscapes, and scenes of everyday life.
 Age 4 through Grade 5
							
							Art Investigators: Exploring Modern Art
							
								Students will look closely at art objects for clues to artists' choices in creating modern and contemporary art.
 In-Person
							
							Special Request Field Trips
							
								We are happy to work with you to customize a field trip that meets the needs of your class or to create a field trip that connects closely to your curriculum.
 Grades 2 through 12
 Grades 2 through 12
							
							Every Picture Tells a Story
							
								Learn to "read" works of art by considering multiple perspectives, characters, settings, and plots.
 Grades 4 through 12
							
							American Connections
							
								Students will carefully explore landscapes, portraits, and scenes of everyday life and engage with works of art through discussion, creative writing, and sketching.
 Grades 4 through 12
							
							Sculpture and Sketching: From Traditional to Modern
							
								From figurative bronzes and marble carvings to works of art that challenge conventional ideas about sculpture, students will investigate materials, techniques, subject matter, and artistic intent.
 Grades 6 through 12
							
							Breaking the Rules
							
								Investigate how artists “break the rules” when they depart from realistic representation, use innovative techniques, and engage the viewer as a partner in creating meaning-making.
 Grades 7 through 12
							
							Perspective Taking through Art
							
								Students will attempt to step into the shoes of the artist or a figure represented in a work of art—and consider the different experiences and viewpoints they discover in the process.
 In-Person
							
							Special Request Field Trip
							
								We are happy to work with you to customize a field trip that meets the needs of your class or to create a field trip that connects closely to your curriculum.
 Title I Bus Stipends
Funding for the cost of bus transportation is available for Title I schools that participate in our docent-led school field trips. For more information, please get in touch with Deirdre Palmer at [email protected] or (202) 842-6880, or use the application form.
 Virtual School Field Trips Whether from home or the classroom, your students will participate in engaging and interactive live school field trips in a virtual learning space. These free field trips provide the opportunity to explore and compare a diverse array of works of art from our collection. Students will have time to look carefully, ask questions, and develop their own interpretations. Creative writing, sketching, and perspective-taking will help students uncover complexity and cultivate personal connections to art. Students will experience a powerful shared learning community where all voices are valued.
 Age 4 through Grade 3
 Age 4 through Grade 3
							
							Art Investigators: Faces and Places
							
								Art Investigators use their skills to look for clues and use their imaginations to explore portraits, landscapes, and scenes of everyday life.
 Virtual
							
							Special Request Field Trips
							
								We are happy to work with you to customize a field trip that meets the needs of your class or to create a field trip that connects closely to your curriculum.
 Grades 2 through 12
 Grades 2 through 12
							
							Every Picture Tells a Story
							
								Learn to "read" works of art by considering multiple perspectives, characters, settings, and plots.
 Grades 4 through 12
							
							American Connections
							
								Students will carefully explore landscapes, portraits, and scenes of everyday life and engage with works of art through discussion, creative writing, and sketching.
 Grades 6 through 12
							
							Exploring Identity through Modern Art
							
								Through guided looking, sketching, and writing activities, students will consider how artists explore identity through their art.
 Virtual
							
							Special Request Field Trips
							
								We are happy to work with you to customize a field trip that meets the needs of your class or to create a field trip that connects closely to your curriculum.
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