CAMIT Grants

2024-25 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 … Continued

MIT Flow’s Debut Chinese Dance Showcase: Origins, photo by Robin Xiong

Council for the Arts at MIT Spring 2025 Grant Recipients

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. Spring 2025 Grants Committee Funding Recipients Twenty-one projects by MIT students, staff, and … Continued

Conductive Ceramics, Sam Chin, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.

Council for the Arts at MIT Fall 2024 Grant Recipients

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, … Continued

Shift+W: Building the Toolbox

Council for the Arts at MIT Spring 2023 Grant Recipients

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.  Spring 2023 Grants Committee Funding Recipients Eleven projects by MIT students … Continued

Alejandro Medina, Life List prototypes.

Council for the Arts at MIT Announces Fall 2022 Grant Recipients

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. Applications for Undergraduate Mini-Grants and Graduate Arts Seed Grants are accepted … Continued

Lodgers, courtesy the artists

Architecture Isn’t Just for Humans Anymore

In the remote desert of Nevada, MIT students design shelter for all species   In a rural valley of northwestern Nevada, home to stretches of wetlands, sagebrush-grassland and dozens of natural springs, is a 3,800-acre parcel of off-grid land known … Continued

Misalignments by Dalma Földesi and Jung In Seo, 2020

Misalignments

Material misfits in the uncanny space of the inexact

Wuming Theater Club’s Das Kapital

Confronting capitalism through absurdist comedy

Personal Thrill, part of A New Way of Play, by Alexandre Beaudouin-Mackay and Sarah Wagner, 2020. Courtesy of the artists.

A New Way of Play

The forms and functions of participatory design and critical pedagogies

BUGS for Jonathan Goldman

A series of public sculptures inspiring new interactions and collective behaviors

Siranush Babakhanova and the garment she designed, with electronics by Thomas Sanchez Lengeling and Terry Kang.

Neoperceptions

Augmenting human perception with live performance technology

Infinite Magazine Issue 2. Image courtesy of the artists.

Infinite

An MIT Undergraduate Student Fashion Collective

2018 CAMIT Grant, Trashion Show. Courtesy of the artists.

Trashion Show

Fashioning sustainability

CAMIT Grant recipient MTA Playwrights Lab. Ayomide Fatunde '18, Jordan Clark, and Cody Sloan. Credit Sarah Wagner.

MTA Playwrights Lab

MIT's new play festival

CAMIT Grant Recipient Modular Rhythm Machine. Credit: Nicolás Kisic Aguirre

Modular Rhythm Machine

An exploration of rhythm, sound, public space, and power

CAMIT Grant Recipient Murals of Senior Haus Exhibition, MIT Wiesner Student Art Gallery. Credit: Peter Downs.

Murals of Senior Haus

Find where you thrive

CAMIT Grant Recipient, Portraits of Resilience. Courtesy of the Artist.

Portraits of Resilience

Finding resilience and meaning in the face of anxiety and depression

CAMIT Grant Recipient, Meaning in the Making. Courtesy of the Artists.

Meaning in the Making

A Vibrant Spectacular of Mind, Hand, and Heart by Garrett Parrish, '17

#mfaNOW Uncanny Cat Café. Credit: Hot Milks Foundation

The Uncanny Cat Café and Affective Induction Spa

Visit a future where the uncanny is catty and meow is now. Techno-Optimism turned inward. Sensations that make sense

MIT Shakespeare Ensemble's Marina.

MIT Shakespeare Ensemble: Marina

Summer 2017 production by the MIT Shakespeare Ensemble

Props Paper at 2017 World Design Event Antenna. Credit: Jeroen van der Wielen.

PROPS PAPER

A weekly newspaper on contemporary practices in image-making.

Still from animated film "An Extra Dimension"

MIT Animation Group

Providing opportunities for students to learn about and create digital art and animation

E-Form Prototype Midi Controller demonstration at the 2017 Arts on the Radar event. Credit: Courtesy of the artist Willy Wu.

E-Form

An electronic music interface able to capture music’s nuances through human touch

Clickspace

Visualizing the instantaneous moments of translation that take place in a designer’s typical digital workflow

September 55 VR piece, installation view, Istanbul, 2016. Photo: Courtesy of Deniz Tortum.

September 1955