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 its 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 & Arts Access Program
council-arts@mit.edu
The Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) offers several categories of funding for MIT faculty and principal or senior research staff from all departments, labs, and centers:
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 two funding cycles each year.
To support remote teaching this fall, the Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) will once again offer a lightning round of micro-grants to support Visiting Artists in the Virtual Classroom. Each grant provides a $250 honorarium per visit for instructors to invite artists to participate as guest speakers in Zoom classes.
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 and subsidized Boston Ballet tickets for MIT students.