In addition to providing the MIT community with access to the visual and performing arts through free and discounted tickets to local arts institutions (for students, faculty and staff), as well as support for arts projects that engage the MIT community, the Council for the Arts at MIT provides annual core support to important arts organizations and programs across the Institute.
Recipients of annual core support include the List Visual Arts Center, the MIT Museum, the Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST), the Art, Culture, and Technology program (ACT), Student Art Programs, and more.
For more information, please contact council-arts@mit.edu.
An academic program and hub of critical art practice and discourse within the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Distinctive for its emphasis on the research and development phase of artistic work, the CAST Visiting Artist residencies embed artists in the cutting-edge research and teaching at MIT, where scientists and engineers are open to artists’ speculative and hands-on way of working
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A creative laboratory that provides artists with a space to freely experiment and push existing boundaries.
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A venue for exploration that engages the wider community with MIT’s science, technology, and other areas of scholarship in ways that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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Music and Theater Arts invites students to explore these disciplines as artistic practices and as cultural, intellectual and personal avenues of inquiry and discovery. Students may pursue concentrations, minors or majors in either Music or Theater, as well as joint majors with Engineering or Science.
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Extra-academic opportunities for students, through the Student Art Association (SAA) and the START Studio.
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A regular lunchtime performance series, which gives artistic MIT staff the opportunity to perform in the MIT Chapel.
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A collaboration between MIT and two non-profit professional theater companies, Underground Railway Theater and the Nora Theater Company, both in residence at the Central Square Theater.
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