Principal Investigator Rachel Bennett
Project Website http://arts.mit.edu/welcome/camit/aboutcamit/
The Council was founded in 1972 by president Jerome B. Wiesner, and is an international volunteer group of alumni and friends established to support the arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With its enthusiastic advocacy for all the arts at MIT, the Council’s mission is 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, and to conduct arts-related fundraising activities on behalf of MIT.
The Council’s programs are funded entirely by the annual contributions of its members.
The organization was created to support “a broadly based, highly participatory program in the arts, firmly founded on teaching, practice, and research at the Institute. CAMIT is a group of up to 100 alumni and friends of MIT who support and promote the arts at the Institute. Council members are appointed for three-year, renewable terms by MIT’s president to serve as advocates and ambassadors for the arts at MIT.
Annual donations by CAMIT members fund a wide array of programs and arts events at MIT, including the List Visual Arts Center and the MIT Museum, arts awards, visiting artists, concerts, and performances. Also, CAMIT members fund the popular tickets program, which provides free or subsidized access for MIT students to local arts organizations and performance events, including the Museum of Fine Arts, the Institute of Contemporary Art, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.