2026–27 CAMIT Grant Recipients

The Council for the Arts at MIT (CAMIT), a group of alumni and friends of the Institute who support arts engagement at MIT, funds grant programs to support arts projects that engage the MIT community. Students, faculty, and staff are eligible to apply for funding from the Council’s Grants Committee, and students are also eligible to apply for mini-grant funding of up to $500.

For more information, contact:
council-arts@mit.edu

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Machine Symphony is a live performance by composer and multi-instrumentalist Antonis Christou.

MIT Nritya, fall 2025 guest performance. Credit: Courtesy of the artists.

MIT Gala 2024. Credit: Jack Field Studio.

Installation view of Juke: Built Off the Record, MIT Wiesner Student Art Gallery. Work by C Jacob Payne, SA+P (School of Architecture and Planning), MArch (Master of Architecture), 2027. Photo: Courtesy of the artist.

MIT students, staff, and faculty applied for and received funding in spring 2026 for artistic work that engages the MIT community through interactive installations, exhibitions, performances, and more.

Arts Mini-Grants

From concept to completion, Arts Mini Grants fuel ideas worth sharing—supporting current MIT students in developing creative projects that directly engage the MIT community.

Looking to develop a prototype or small project? Applications are accepted on a rolling basis for up to $500 to bring your artistic idea to life and share it with the MIT community .

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2026 Chinese Dance Showcase

MIT Flow

A performance of traditional Chinese dance pieces inspired by court dances, martial arts, myths and legends, folk dances, literature, and more.

A Catoptromancer

Kevin Fulton

A techno-séance that explores how we use superstition and technology to make contact with what we have lost, and how those efforts are a reflection of what haunts us.

Asymptones Fall Concert

MIT Asymptones

A free concert for the MIT community featuring fun and nerdy musical performances by the Asymptones a cappella group.

Boston Bandish: South Asian fusion a cappella competition

MIT Ohms

Eight top collegiate South Asian fusion a cappella teams from around the country travel to MIT to showcase their talents and innovations upon South Asian classical and contemporary, Western pop, and world music styles for a live audience and a panel of judges.

Event information and RSVP here.

Embrace 和

Jennifer Yi Tu

A collaborative arts initiative showcasing historic and contemporary works that highlight the theme of harmony across cultures. Through exhibitions, talks, and community engagement, it brings together artists, scholars, and audiences to explore shared narratives and creative connections. This exhibition features visual materials spanning more than a millennium, tracing the localization of Christian imagery in China and illuminating the rich history of artistic and cross-cultural exchange.

End-of-Semester Concert

MIT Chorallaries

A performance of song and choreography by MIT’s oldest mixed-voice a cappella group, celebrating the semester’s culmination with an evening filled with creativity, energy, discovery, and the vibrant spirit.

Feedback Wiesner Student Art Gallery Exhibition

Aisha Cheema and Zachary Slonsky

An installation exploring cycles of translation between image, data, light, and drawing. The work will evolve over time, creating an immersive feedback loop.

MIT LIVE Underground: Fall Showcase 2025

MIT LIVE

A performance and platform for musicians of the MIT community to come together, rehearse, and perform collaboratively in a flexible and creative way.

MIT Resonance Fall 2025 Concert

Resonance of MIT

A performance of contemporary hits by Resonance of MIT, a co-ed a cappella group.

Nomadic Home

MIT Women’s League

An exhibition of carved olive wood boxes by Israeli artist Michal De-Medonsa on display at the MIT Student Furniture Exchange.

Poetic Everyday – Arts in 70 Amherst

70 Amherst Board

Poetic Everyday unfolds as a constellation of hands-on art workshops that activate everyday life in the residence hall through making and experimentation. Moving across a striking range of materials and practices, from printing, glass, and wood to calligraphy and participatory installation, the project supports a high volume of artistic activity and repeated engagement. The work that takes shape through these sessions comes together in a shared exhibition (February 21–28) and layered documentation, including photography and immersive 3D capture, tracing the transformation of the space through collective creative practice.

Love’s Labours Lost

MIT Shakespeare Ensemble

One of Shakespeare’s earliest comedic plays, adapted to follow the misadventures of male undergrads who come face-to-face with coed women from Yale for the first time, in 1969 with the moon landing as a backdrop.

Syncopasian 2025–26 Concerts and Album

MIT Syncopasian

The fall and spring semester performances and album recordings by Syncopasian, a co-ed a cappella group at MIT with an emphasis on modern East Asian music.

Student Arts Mini Grants

Mini Grants provide funding of up to $500 to students and students groups to launch a project, prototype an idea, or create a community arts engagement experience.

2025 DAA@MIT Anthology

Digital Art and Animation @ MIT

Boston Feels Box

Sarah Blackett

Computer-Controlled Viola Organiste

Andrew Moses

Daniel Binelli and Polly Ferman: Desde el Amor, Tango

MIT Tango Club

Donk Show III

Ridonkulous

Flat-Pack Living System

Varun Maniar

Hall for All

Jordan Walters

Love in Uncertain Motion: Spring Recital

Fredric Kong

Music Video Hackathon at MIT

Lindsay Yu

Next Haunt 2025

Next Haunt

NOTHING NEW Vol.1 Housewarming

Junha Hwang

Out of the Garden: Community Event

Climate Visions Students

Palettes & Platters

International Students Association

Paraline: Fishing the Unknown

Shengtao Shen

Ride the Cyclone

Musical Theatre Guilde

Rune 2025 Fall Zine

Rune Art and Literature Magazine

MIT Wiesner Student Art Gallery Exhibition: Connecting Gaia

Yitong Tseo

SP Photography Contest

Sidney Pacific Graduate Residence Office of Residence Life

Stone Workshop 2.0

Cheung Qin

Sustainable Costuming

DanceTroupe

The Egg Part 2

Linda Qian

What We Know Babies Know

Kartik Chandra