Arts at MIT

Council for the Arts at MIT (CAMIT)

The Council for the Arts at MIT celebrated its past, present, and future at the 40th Annual Meeting
on October 25-26, 2012

Among the highlights of the 40th Annual Meeting were two panel discussions featuring MIT alumni who have continued their involvement in the arts, either as a professional in an arts-related field, or as a practicing artist.  Among the panelists were filmmaker Patrick Wang ’98, whose independent  film In the Family has received praise from sources such as the New York Times and film critic Roger Ebert; Marc Steglitz (Sloan ’65) is the Chief Operating Officer of the Guggenheim Museum, a position he assumed after many years in the banking world; Eto Otitigbe ’99, is a multimedia artist whose work involves sculpture, performance, installation and video.

Please click here for video of the panel discussions:

Panel 1

Panel 2

The Council for the Arts is an international volunteer group of alumni and friends established to support the arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With its enthusiastic advocacy for all the arts at MIT, the Council’s mission is to act as a catalyst for the development of a broadly based, highly participatory program in the arts, firmly founded on teaching, practice, and research at the Institute, and to conduct arts-related fundraising activities on behalf of MIT.

Programs

  • The Council’s Grants Program has awarded almost three million dollars since 1974 to over twenty-five hundred arts projects created by MIT students, staff, and faculty.
  • The Excursion Series provides tickets to off-campus performances and cultural events.
  • The Arts Scholars Program enables students who are active in all artistic disciplines to meet and converse in informal dinners accompanied by presentations or excursions.
  • A number of awards are presented by the Council through endowments provided by its members.