Architectural Design
One of the four original departments at MIT and the first signal that MIT would not be narrowly defined in science and technology.
Arts.mit.edu is your portal to all of the arts at MIT. Here are links to other MIT arts websites.
Architecture Galleries
The Wolk, Keller, and PLAZmA Digital Galleries managed by the Department of Architecture
Chamber Chorus
A small, all-student group that performs two concerts each year under the direction of Dr. William Cutter.
Comparative Media Studies/Writing
An innovative program that applies critical analysis, collaborative research and design across a variety of media arts, forms and practices.
Cross Registration
Full-time MIT students may take subjects for credit at Harvard University, Wellesley College, MassArt, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts without paying additional tuition.
Deans Gallery
MIT Sloan School of Management works with the MIT List Visual Arts Center to present three exhibitions per year
Gamelan Galak Tika
Boston area’s first Balinese gamelan
Hacking Arts
Entrepreneurship and innovation within the creative arts industries
HASS Requirements
Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) Requirements for all MIT students
History, Theory and Criticism (HTC)
The history of architecture and art, as well as the theoretical and political presuppositions informing that history.
List Visual Arts Center
The contemporary art museum at MIT, the List Center presents a dynamic program of six to nine special exhibitions in its galleries annually.
Literature
Problems of narrative, aesthetics, genre and media are explored through a broad array of written, oral, and visual forms ranging from the ancient world to the 21st century.
MIT Museum
Collecting, preserving, and exhibiting materials that serve as a resource for the study and interpretation of the intellectual, educational, and social history of MIT.
MIT Symphony Orchestra
Founded in 1884, this full-size orchestra is comprised primarily of MIT and Wellesley College students.
Museum Studio
Connecting MIT education to the visiting public through leading-edge museum practice housed in the Compton Gallery
Music and Theater Arts
History and culture, performance and theory
Open Documentary Lab
Brings technologists, storytellers and scholars together to advance the new arts of documentary.
Program in Art, Culture, and Technology (ACT)
Facilitates exploration of art’s broad, complex, global history and conjunction with culture, science, technology and design
Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Media Lab)
Actively promoting a unique, antidisciplinary culture, the MIT Media Lab goes beyond known boundaries and disciplines, encouraging the most unconventional mixing and matching of seemingly disparate research areas.
Public Art Collection
MIT is home to more than 3,500 artworks including public sculptures, prints, drawings and more.
Rambax
Dedicated to learning the art of sabar, a vibrant drum and dance tradition of the Wolof people of Senegal, West Africa.
School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (SHASS)
Empowering young scientists, engineers, thinkers and citizens—with historical and cultural perspectives, and skills in critical thinking and communication—to help them serve the world well, with innovations and lives that are rich in meaning and wisdom.
Student Performance Groups
Dance, film, literary arts, music, theater and other interdisciplinary forms
Theater Arts
An imaginative and rigorous engagement with the arts and disciplines of theater: acting, directing, playwriting, design, production and scholarship.