CAMIT members reflected in Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate, in Millennium Park Chicago, April 2010
The Council for the Arts at MIT will celebrate its 40th anniversary in October 2012!
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 over two and a half million dollars since 1974 to more than 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.
- Awards are presented by the Council through endowments provided by its members.
- Gyorgy Kepes Fellowship Prize awarded to members of the MIT community
- The Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT, presented to an artist outside of MIT who has achieved excellence at the international level
- Louis Sudler Prize awarded to a graduating senior
- Laya and Jerome Wiesner Student Art Awards presented to students or student groups
Background image: Jaekyung Jung, How to make me laugh out loud in new places, Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts , 2nd place
