2025–26 CAMIT Grant Recipients
Source: https://arts.mit.edu/camit/funding/recipients-2026/ Parent: https://arts.mit.edu/camit/
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 eligible to apply for funding from the Council’s Grants Committee, and students are also eligible to apply for mini-grant funding of up to $500.
For more information, contact: \ council-arts@mit.edu
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Grant recipient Kevin Fulton's A Catoptromancer. Image: René Magritte. La Reproduction interdite (Not to Be Reproduced). Brussels, 1937
Grant recipient Kevin Fulton's A Catoptromancer. Image: René Magritte. La Reproduction interdite (Not to Be Reproduced). Brussels, 1937
Grant recipient Nomadic Home. Credit: Michal De-Medonsa.
Grant recipient 2025-26 MIT Flow Team.
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Arts Projects Supported by the Council for the Arts at MIT
Thirty-three projects by MIT students, staff, and faculty received funding in fall 2025 for artistic work that engages the MIT community through interactive installations, exhibitions, performances, and more. The CAMIT Grants Committee supported projects by nine MIT student groups, one graduate student, and three staff members. The Mini Grants Program supported 20 projects by 11 graduate students and nine student groups.
*2026 Chinese Dance Showcase*
MIT Flow
A performance of traditional Chinese dance pieces inspired by court dances, martial arts, myths and legends, folk dances, literature, and more.
*A Catoptromancer***
Kevin Fulton
A techno-séance that explores how we use superstition and technology to make contact with what we have lost, and how those efforts are a reflection of what haunts us.
Asymptones Fall Concert
MIT Asymptones
A free concert for the MIT community featuring fun and nerdy musical performances by the Asymptones a cappella group.
**Boston Bandish: South Asian fusion a cappella competition****
MIT Ohms
Eight top collegiate South Asian fusion a cappella teams from around the country travel to MIT to showcase their talents and innovations upon South Asian classical and contemporary, Western pop, and world music styles for a live audience and a panel of judges.\ \ Event information and RSVP here.
*Embrace*** 和
Jennifer Yi Tu
A collaborative arts initiative showcasing historic and contemporary works that highlight the theme of harmony across cultures. Through exhibitions, talks, and community engagement, it brings together artists, scholars, and audiences to explore shared narratives and creative connections. This exhibition features visual materials spanning more than a millennium, tracing the localization of Christian imagery in China and illuminating the rich history of artistic and cross-cultural exchange.
*End-of-Semester Concert*
MIT Chorallaries
A performance of song and choreography by MIT’s oldest mixed-voice a cappella group, celebrating the semester’s culmination with an evening filled with creativity, energy, discovery, and the vibrant spirit.
Feedback Wiesner Student Art Gallery Exhibition
Aisha Cheema and Zachary Slonsky
An installation exploring cycles of translation between image, data, light, and drawing. The work will evolve over time, creating an immersive feedback loop.\
**MIT LIVE Underground: Fall Showcase 2025****
MIT LIVE
A performance and platform for musicians of the MIT community to come together, rehearse, and perform collaboratively in a flexible and creative way.
MIT Resonance Fall 2025 Concert
Resonance of MIT
A performance of contemporary hits by Resonance of MIT, a co-ed a cappella group.
*Nomadic Home***
MIT Women’s League
An exhibition of carved olive wood boxes by Israeli artist Michal De-Medonsa on display at the MIT Student Furniture Exchange.
Poetic Everyday – Arts in 70 Amherst
70 Amherst Board
Poetic Everyday unfolds as a constellation of hands-on art workshops that activate everyday life in the residence hall through making and experimentation. Moving across a striking range of materials and practices, from printing, glass, and wood to calligraphy and participatory installation, the project supports a high volume of artistic activity and repeated engagement. The work that takes shape through these sessions comes together in a shared exhibition (February 21–28) and layered documentation, including photography and immersive 3D capture, tracing the transformation of the space through collective creative practice.
*Love’s Labours Lost***
MIT Shakespeare Ensemble
One of Shakespeare’s earliest comedic plays, adapted to follow the misadventures of male undergrads who come face-to-face with coed women from Yale for the first time, in 1969 with the moon landing as a backdrop.
Syncopasian 2025–26 Concerts and Album
MIT Syncopasian
The fall and spring semester performances and album recordings by Syncopasian, a co-ed a cappella group at MIT with an emphasis on modern East Asian music.
Student Arts Mini Grants
Mini Grants provide funding of up to $500 to students and students groups to launch a project, prototype an idea, or create a community arts engagement experience.
*2025 DAA@MIT Anthology*
Digital Art and Animation @ MIT
**Boston Feels Box****
Sarah Blackett
**Computer-Controlled Viola Organiste****
Andrew Moses
*Daniel Binelli and Polly Ferman: Desde el Amor, Tango*
MIT Tango Club
*Donk Show III*
Ridonkulous
*Flat-Pack Living System*
Varun Maniar
**Hall for All****
Jordan Walters
*Love in Uncertain Motion: Spring Recital*
Fredric Kong
*Music Video Hackathon at MIT*
Lindsay Yu
*Next Haunt 2025*
Next Haunt
**NOTHING NEW Vol.1 Housewarming****
Junha Hwang
*Out of the Garden: Community Event*
Climate Visions Students
*Palettes & Platters*
International Students Association
*Paraline: Fishing the Unknown*
Shengtao Shen
**Ride the Cyclone****
Musical Theatre Guilde
*Rune 2025 Fall Zine*
Rune Art and Literature Magazine
MIT Wiesner Student Art Gallery Exhibition: Connecting Gaia
Yitong Tseo
*SP Photography Contest*
Sidney Pacific Graduate Residence Office of Residence Life
Stone Workshop 2.0
Cheung Qin
Sustainable Costuming
DanceTroupe
*The Egg Part 2*
Linda Qian
What We Know Babies Know
Kartik Chandra