The Council for the Arts at MIT (CAMIT) was founded in 1972 by MIT President Jerome B. Wiesner 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.
Council members are alumni and friends with a strong commitment to the arts and serving the MIT community, and the Council’s programs are funded by the annual contributions of its members.
To find out more about CAMIT, please contact council-arts@mit.edu.
Local Stories, Global Themes: The 2022 Schnitzer Prize Winners
The Council for the Arts at MIT awards the Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Prize to students Christopher Benton, Kwan "Queenie" Li, and Irmandy Wickasono.
It’s All About the Art: The 2022 Wiesner Prize
MIT Simmons Hall as an Interactive Canvas
An Economy of Sharing: Sudler Prize Winner Valerie Chen
Architecture Isn’t Just for Humans Anymore
Emma Yimeng Zhu 朱艺蒙 (SMACT ’21) Brings Ideas to Life
Rethinking Our First Encounters in Space
Inspiring Aspiring Artists: CAMIT Undergraduate Mini-Grants
MIT students have continued to perform, compose, draw, dance, build, and make in every imaginable way throughout this past year.
Council for the Arts at MIT Supports Graduate Student Artistic Research
Graduate students and alumni discuss their work at the Council’s Annual Meeting
The 2021 Schnitzer Prize: Art For and From Our World
The Council for the Arts at MIT awards the Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Prize to students Po-Hao Chi, Chucho Ocampo, Carolyn Tam, and Nina Lutz.
Sebastian Franjou ’21: Louis Sudler Prize Winner
Thriving in the Arts at MIT: The 2021 Laya and Jerome B. Wiesner Student Art Awards
How to Talk to Ghosts
Misalignments
The MTA Playwrights Lab turned a hurdle into a unique opportunity for its students and recent alumni
Reflections on a now virtual Playwrights Lab Workshop
The Joy of Dance at MIT
A Writer’s Voyage: Mia Heavener, MIT Course 1, ’00
Beside Still Waters: Devi Lockwood SM ‘19
Council for the Arts at MIT welcomes Andrea Volpe as its new director
2019 Winners of the Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts
The 2019 Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts
2019 Recipients of the Wiesner Student Art Awards
Jorge Otero-Pailos ‘02 Connects Art and Architecture in Surprising Ways
Ray Zepeda ‘88 Recalls his Rich Musical Mentors at MIT
Transforming a Rough Childhood in Rural Louisiana into a Graphic Novel
Transgender artist L. Nichols ’05 & ’07 looks at MIT’s powerful influence on his life and art
Arts on the Radar: hundreds of students kick off a year in the arts at MIT
Fourth annual event hosted by Arts at MIT, the MIT List Visual Arts Center, the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, and MIT Music and Theater Arts
“The Show Business I Know”: Audra McDonald in conversation with Martin Marks and MIT students
Garrett Parrish receives the 2017 Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts
2017 Winners of the Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts
2017 Recipients of the Wiesner Student Art Awards
The concert program gets a digital makeover fit for Bowie
VR through a long lens: Deniz Tortum lends historical perspective to a new medium
VR through a long lens: Deniz Tortum lends historical perspective to a new medium
Actor-Director-Physicist Adam Strandberg
Wiesner Gallery Relaunch
David Adjaye discusses Eero Saarinen’s MIT Chapel
“If the campus is a sentence, then the chapel is the full stop that makes you pause”
Anna Kohler plays with sensations in Mytho? Lure of Wildness
Experience: Culture, Cognition, and the Common Sense, words from the editors
The Museum of the Future Needs You… and You
2016 Recipients of Student Art Awards
Daniel Parker’s Path to Juilliard via MIT
Dull your senses and expand your mind
Is the library the new public square?
bioLogic’s Living Textile
CAMIT Grant Recipient
CAMIT Grants Showcase Presents a Range of Art Projects Made at MIT
CAMIT Grant Recipients
Joan Jonas’s enduring influence at (and beyond) MIT, Part V
Johnny Gandelsman performs Bach’s complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin
Architect David Adjaye Awarded 2016 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT
A residency focused on the future of the museum, library and campus