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Maria Prus (center) with her mother and sister (right and left) in front of her winning mural design during the 2008 unveiling

Student Mural Project
The Student Mural Project is a competition open to all MIT students. All submissions must be original two-dimensional creations. The winning design, chosen by a jury selected from the Stata Center, is reproduced as a high-quality wall-sized print and displayed for one year on the Student Street in the Stata Center.

Congradulations to this year's winner:
Chihuly at Phipps
by Maria Prus '10
Mechanical Engineering
Medium: Digital photograph

Chihuly at Phipps was taken during a Dale Chihuly exhibit at Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania during the Year of Glass Celebration. The image depicts a work of blown glass art reflected in the water of the Conservatory. Dale Chihuly, a well known glass artist, has installed his “Gardens of Glass” exhibits in conservatories and botanical gardens around the world.

2008 Mural Opening Reception
MIT Stata Center Student Street
May 1, 4-6pm

2009 Submission Deadline
TBA

The jury consists of representatives from Stata Center's
four departments: Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Department of Linguistics & Philosophy, the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, and Facilities/the CAC Stata branch.

Past Mural Winners

All entries must adhere to the specifications defined below. The final print of the mural will be outsourced to a professional printing and graphic design agency. The guidelines described below will insure the final copy of the mural will be compatible with their printers and transfer well to the large scale.

• Entries may be created in any fine art media, including painting, photography/digital, drawing, printmaking, pastels, and textiles, but they must be submitted digitally.
• One student may submit multiple entries, and multiple students may collaborate to create entries.
• Please submit your image(s) on a CD or as a link to a public directory. If you submit by CD, the image(s) should be the only file(s) on the disk. Please label the disk clearly with your name, the title(s) of the work(s), email, and phone number.
• The image(s) should be stored in one of these file formats. They are listed in order of preference, from most preferred to least preferred.
  
  • .tiff, .pdf
  • Adobe Photoshop CS3 (.psd)
  • Adobe Illustrator CS3 (.ai)
  • Adobe InDesignCS3 (.indd)
• Do not compress your image file(s) in any way. This includes storage in .zip files, stuff-it archives, or using common image compression, such as .jpeg format.
• For optimal printing, the image(s) should be 50 pix/in at the full size (10' X 7' - landscape orientation only). Please use the correct resolution for the image. Insufficient resolution will cause grainy, poor looking images and will not be considered. The image(s) you submit must have the same ratio of length to width for correct scaling, and if you use portrait orientation, be aware that if the winning image is yours, it will nonetheless have to be displayed in landscape.
• Your image(s) must be created in CMYK (three-color form). If you use RGB form, the conversion to CMYK may harm your image(s).
• If you use any form of un-rasterized print in your image(s), you must provide the font along with your image(s). The printers may not have access to the same set of fonts you used in creating your image(s). If you are using a Macintosh, please provide both screen and printer fonts if applicable.

If you have any questions, please email: artscoordinator@mit.edu