The Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) supports the development of creative projects, artist residencies, cross-disciplinary classes and research that integrates the arts and has significant student engagement or impact on campus.
The Council for the Arts at MIT (CAMIT) provides funding and benefits for MIT faculty members in accordance with it’s mission to act as a catalyst for the development of a broadly based, highly participatory program in the arts, firmly founded on teaching, practice and research at the Institute.
For more information, contact:
CAST Grants & Visiting Artists
castgrants@mit.edu
CAMIT Grants & Tickets Program
council-arts@mit.edu
The Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) supports cross-disciplinary curricular initiatives that integrate the arts into the core curriculum and create new artistic work or materials, media and technologies for artistic expression.
CAST invites faculty to apply for grants to support a creative project that will come to fruition within a year of award.
CAST invites faculty to propose an artist for a campus residency. Visiting artist projects must include student engagement and a public program.
CAST also offers small grants (up to $1,000) for exploratory visits for potential Visiting Artists, which can be helpful for establishing the basis for collaborations and full-fledged proposals.
The Council for the Arts at MIT (CAMIT) encourages MIT students, faculty and staff to apply for grants to support arts projects in all disciplines that offer the MIT community opportunities to create, participate in and learn about the arts. A grants committee, composed of CAMIT members, evaluates these competitive applications and recommends funding. There are three funding cycles each year and all deadlines are announced in September.
CAMIT provides funding each semester for tickets to arts events that supplement course syllabi.
Additionally, CAMIT underwrites memberships for MIT faculty, staff and students at Boston-area art museums including the MFA, ICA and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. CAMIT also supports the BSO College Card program for MIT students.
New in Spring 2019, the Council for the Arts at MIT is offering up to $1,000 in funding support for faculty to invite artists as guest speakers to their course.