2022-23 CAMIT Fund Report

The Council for the Arts at MIT Fund provides direct funding for programs that encourage arts engagements across the Institute, particularly for and by MIT students. The Fund also provides sustaining core support to academic, co-curricular, and public-facing arts programs and initiatives across the Institute led by the Office of the Chancellor; the School of Architecture + Planning; the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences; and the Office of the Provost.

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Areas of Support:

Arts Access

The Arts Access program, the Council’s broadest reaching program, provides MIT students and the wider MIT community with discounted or no-cost access to Boston’s flagship museums and performing arts venues.

Arts Grants

The Council’s three grants programs support independent arts projects with the purpose of engaging the MIT community in the arts across the Institute.

Core Arts Sector Support

The Council provides sustaining support to the leadership priorities of MIT’s academic, co-curricular, and public-serving arts programs and initiatives.

ARTS ACCESS
The Arts Access program, the Council’s broadest reaching program, provides MIT students and the wider MIT community with discounted or no-cost access to Boston’s flagship museums and performing arts venues.

The Council’s collective philanthropy provided underwriting for 1,119 students to attend performances of the Boston Ballet. The Council’s support also enabled 11,245 students, faculty, and staff to visit the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Arts Access also supports Tickets for Classes, which provides funding for faculty to provide no-cost access to visual and performing arts experiences for their undergraduate students to enhance topics and themes in the humanities curriculum. This year the program supported seventeen classes, and just over 150 students.

The Council’s Arts Access program is also supported by the Bobko BSO Ticket Fund, which provided underwriting for 1,339 students to access the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s College Card program.

ARTS ACCESS
The Arts Access program, the Council’s broadest reaching program, provides MIT students and the wider MIT community with discounted or no-cost access to Boston’s flagship museums and performing arts venues.

The Council’s collective philanthropy provided underwriting for 1,119 students to attend performances of the Boston Ballet. The Council’s support also enabled 11,245 students, faculty, and staff to visit the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston; and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Arts Access also supports Tickets for Classes, which provides funding for faculty to provide no-cost access to visual and performing arts experiences for their undergraduate students to enhance topics and themes in the humanities curriculum. This year the program supported seventeen classes, and just over 150 students.

The Council’s Arts Access program is also supported by the Bobko BSO Ticket Fund, which provided underwriting for 1,339 students to access the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s College Card program.