Installation view: Student Lending Art Program 2024 at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, 2024. Photo: Dario Lasagni
2025 Student Lending Art Program Exhibition and Lottery
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Featuring over 500 original works available from our collection, the Student Lending Art Program is a beloved MIT tradition where students can borrow artwork from the collection for free.
The exhibition features original works of art, primarily prints and photographs, drawn from the List Center’s Student Lending Collection. This annual exhibition, is free and open to the general public as well as the MIT community.
Only enrolled undergraduate and graduate MIT students can enter the lottery for a chance to borrow artwork from the collection and must enter the lottery online before September 10.
Winners will be notified on September 13 and will be sent a link to schedule which day to come select an artwork in person. Students do not need to visit the gallery to enter the lottery, but winners will need to be present to select and take home the artwork between September 15-18.
Key Dates for Students
Lottery opens Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Students sign up closed Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Students will be notified on Saturday, September 13, 2025
Art distribution week: Monday, September 15–Thursday, September 18, 2025
Second Chance Opportunity: Friday, September 19, 2025
Student Lending Art Program
Since 1977, the Student Lending Art Program Exhibition and Lottery has provided MIT students the enviable opportunity to borrow, appreciate, and live with a museum quality work of original art for the academic year. Works from the collection are distributed through a lottery system.
This program is free for all current MIT undergraduate and graduate students.
Student Lending Collection
The collection is comprised of the Catherine N. Stratton Collection of Graphic Arts, established in 1966, the List Student Loan Collection, established in 1977, and the Ronald A. Kurtz Student Lending Collection, established in 1985. Approximately a dozen or more new works are added to the collection annually to expand the breadth of its offerings.