From watercolors to holograms, sculpture to interactive video, MIT offers a wide array of Visual Arts opportunities. Develop talents in traditional media through the classes and facilities of the Student Art Association. Explore art within its larger social context through the Visual Arts Program. Participate in collaborations between artists, scientists, and technologists with resident Fellows at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies. Take classes at Mass College of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts through the Cross Registration Program. Investigate lively and thought-provoking exhibitions at the List Visual Arts Center and the MIT Museum. Borrow original artwork to hang on your walls through the Student Loan Art Program. Walk around the campus and visit MIT's remarkable outdoor sculpture collection.
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"Elmo/MIT," a five-and-a-half-foot bronze sculpture by Dimitri Hadzi, commissioned in 1963, initiated an extensive public art collection at MIT that now includes outdoor installations by Henry Moore, Louise Nevelson, Alexander Calder, and Pablo Picasso, among others.
