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Student Programs

The Office of the Arts is committed to connecting undergraduate and graduate students to the arts at MIT. The Student & Artist in Residence Programs branch of the Office of the Arts administers the following student programs:

Freshman Arts Seminar Advising Program (FASAP)

The goal of FASAP is to keep freshmen, active in the arts during high school, connected and active in the arts at MIT. FASAP participants benefit from various arts excursions, special on-campus presentations, and hands-on workshops in addition to free math and science tutoring. Seminars are co-led by arts faculty, staff and graduate students from across the Institute with the invaluable assistance of upper class associate advisors committed to the arts.

Arts Scholars

The Arts Scholars Program is a group of MIT students committed to the arts. Within the program, students have the opportunity to form community, collaborate with other artists at MIT, and experience the arts at MIT and in the Greater Boston Area.

Art Representatives

Art Reps are a network of Arts ambassadors in dorms, living groups and through the graduate student departments.

Grad Arts Forum

The Grad Arts Forum is an initiative designed to encourage interdisciplinary communication among graduate students in the arts through a series of lunchtime forums surrounding the overlapping themes present in the work of the graduate students in the arts at MIT. Topics will include: Sound Culture, Political Art, and Narrative Systems.

Juried Student Origami Exhibit

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List Foundation Fellowship Program (LFFP)
(no longer active; ran from 1992-2006)
LFFP supported individual undergraduate creative work in the performing, literary, visual and media arts by MIT students exploring personal racial and cultural identity who are United States citizens or permanent residents.

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