The Council for the Arts at MIT provides funding for arts projects that engage the MIT community. The Council’s Grants Committee considers proposals for projects in the fall and spring semesters.
Fall 2024 Grants Committee Funding Recipients
Fourteen projects by MIT students, staff, and faculty received funding this fall for artistic work that engages the MIT community through interactive installations, exhibitions, performances, and more.
African Students Association, African Cultural Night Showcase
An event for 600+ attendees featuring African music and dance, fashion design, theater, and a special guest headliner, focusing on the theme of play and creativity through humor.
MIT Asian Dance Team, ADT Fall Showcase
A dance performance for the MIT community and beyond featuring a wide range of fun and exciting dances, including traditional Chinese dances, contemporary and fusion pieces, and covers of k-pop performances.
Katrina Chan, undergraduate student in Architecture, Apricity
A student film about a group of friends stranded together on a college campus during a snowstorm as they navigate unexpected challenges and experience the ephemeral beauty of life’s fleeting moments.
Sam Chin, graduate student in Media Arts and Sciences, with Lancelot Blanchard and Quincy Kuang, Conductive Ceramics: A Musical Tea Experience
An interactive tea ceremony featuring different sensing ceramic pieces which control customized AI-generated music and lighting.
The Chorallaries of MIT, Fall A Capella Concert
A performance of song and choreography by MIT’s oldest mixed-voice a cappella group.
HONMI (Namhi Kwun, graduate student in Architecture, with Bryan Wong SMArchS’ 24), THE ROOM: Forms of Belief, Belief in Forms
An exhibition at Wiesner Student Art Gallery on beliefs and rituals, constructed as a meditative and reflective space for personal and collective experiences.
Heewon Lee, lecturer at MIT D-Lab, Students Co-Creating Solutions with Local Innovators to Transform Communities in Uganda and Tanzania
A documentary film showcasing the collaboration between MIT D-Lab students and local innovators in Uganda and Tanzania.
Life on Stage Theatre (LOST), The Pillowman
A student production of Martin McDonagh’s award-winning play The Pillowman, which uses horrifying and vivid stories to convey the impact of art on society.
Paris Myers, graduate student in Media Arts and Sciences, with Ben Miller and Stefanie Mueller, The Holographic Biome
An interactive, structurally-colored sensory sculpture installation that brings together robotics, installation art, and embodiment.
Alayo Oloko, undergraduate student in Theater and Mechanical Engineering, A Student-Written Play: How it All Went Down
A performance of a new play about a group of astrophysicists who debate what to do when they discover the impending end of the world.
Srinivasan Raghuraman, lecturer in EECS, Pocket Opera Productions Presents: Bellini’s I Puritani
A staged opera performance of I Puritani by singers and musicians from across MIT.
Resonance of MIT, Fall 2024 Acapella Concert
A performance of contemporary hits by Resonance of MIT, a co-ed a cappella group.
MIT Shakespeare Ensemble, Macbeth
Performances of Macbeth set in an apocalyptic future, in celebration of MIT Shakespeare Ensemble’s 50th year.
Matej Vakula, lecturer in Art, Culture and Technology, IAP Workshop and Art Exhibition: Cultural and Aesthetic Implications of Automation in Biotech
An IAP workshop and exhibition in the ACT Gallery exploring the aesthetic dimensions of microfluidics and biotechnology.