2024 Annual Report

MIT graduate student sits presenting a talk to an audience of four people.

Soala Ajienka, Graduate Student Talk, 2024. Photo: Gwyneth Jackman

List Center public programs provide points of engagement for both in-person and remote audiences with the full standards of accessibility. We continue to build new audiences across MIT and Cambridge with in-person programs, while reaching a global audience with varied remote offerings.

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Connect at the List Center

The List Center launched a new program in February that invited Boston’s dedicated graduate art students to come together and meet students from other art programs while learning more about our exhibitions and highlighting community, placemaking, and professional development. The event featured a graduate student talk with Maria Gabriela Carucci on List Projects 28: Sophie Friedman-Pappas and TJ Shin and a special tour of the sculptures in Carlos Reyes: 18. Afterwards, students met new colleagues over provided food and beverages, alongside the chance to win raffle prizes.

Attendees congregating in the atrium for the Connect at the List event in the MIT List Visual Arts Center.

Artist-Led Programs

During the summer of 2024, we continued offering remote, artist-led programs with Profiling. The List Center commissioned five artists to create questionnaires or forms that reconsider how we present ourselves through online profiles, or how the data we input shapes our identity.

Visual graphic created to echo a Facebook page with a blue bar across the top, a gray background and five circle shaped images of artist headshots. The text reads "PROFILING" in large black letters in a white box with a black border at the center of the image.

Graduate Student Talks

We presented eight Graduate Student Talks in FY22, representing a 22% increase from the prior year. To date, students have participated from fourteen different MIT departments, including Materials Science Engineering, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture (HTC), and Sloan School of Management.

MIT graduate student sits presenting a talk to an audience of four people.

Independent Activities Period Programming

We presented a three-part film screening series with documentaries about artists who are included in MIT's Public Art Collection, connecting the MIT Community to the art on campus. Attendance increased by 40% from previous years.

Large granite rings around the base of pine trees in a much bed with a little bit of grass peaking through on the right edge.

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