Arts Scholars Program
The Arts Scholars Program was created in 1998 to offer MIT undergraduates
and Masters
Degree candidates an interdisciplinary community of student artists at
MIT. The program works to nurture and challenge MIT students who wish for
more interaction with fellow student and faculty artists and more exposure
to the rich artistic resources of the
Boston area.
The Arts Scholars Program has two components: art exposure and art creation.
Art exposure
means keeping the community active and full of ideas by exposing participants
to cutting-edge work being done in writing, theater, music, dance, film,
and visual art. This comes in the form of attending off-campus performances,
behind-the-scenes tours, guided visits to museums and galleries, and dinner
discussions with influential artists and faculty— all completely
free of cost to participants thanks to an endowment started by Margaret
McDermott and several other members of the Council for the Arts at MIT.
Outings from past years have included Adelheid Roosen’s The Veiled
Monologs, Copenhagen at the Loeb Drama Center, a writing workshop on revision
with Professor Karl Iagnemma, a trip to see the Seamless: Computational
Couture fashion show, a Filipino Tinikling-dancing workshop, a fieldtrip
to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, a performance of Sinan Ünel’s
Cry of the Reed, an aerial arts show Trickpony with famous dancers and
aerial artists Sally Rousse and Chelsea Bacon, a Taylor Eigsti performance
at the Sculler's Jazz Club, a performance of Elections & Erections
by
satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys, a dance and martial arts performance by the Shaolin
Warriors Troupe, and a daytrip to NY to see the Whitney Biennial, Jay Scheib’s
Untitled Mars, and the interactive show Fuerzabruta. All events are accompanied
by dinner-discussions with faculty guests with expertise in that area of
the arts.
Art creation entails offering participants opportunities to create group art projects by providing free materials and organizational help. In past years the Arts Scholars have created a collaborative group art exhibit at the Wiesner Student Gallery and produced an entry in the Campus Movie Fest competition.
Admission to the program is open to rising sophomores, juniors, seniors,
and masters
graduate students regardless of major.
Application deadline for 2009 TBA.
Application in ( PDF | Word)
