2025 Annual Report

In March 2025, the List Center partnered with the Office of the Arts to commemorate MIT’s latest addition to the Public Art Collection—Madrigal by Sanford Biggers—with a special performance of Moonmedicin, a multi-media art installation that featured live music by Biggers and his collaborators. Presented in partnership with the Music and Theater Arts as part of MIT’s Artfinity arts festival, the sold-out free event celebrated the opening of the Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building and incorporated students and faculty from the MIT Literature Department, who contributed to the dedication with ekphrastic poems inspired by MIT’s campus public art collection. 

In Spring 2025, the List Center collaborated with MIT’s Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Scholar and Grammy Award-winning rapper Lupe Fiasco on GHOTIING MIT: Public Art, a site-specific rap and field recording project that explores the relationship between rap and MIT’s public art collection. The List Center partnered with Fiasco to host the resulting sound works on the Bloomberg Connects mobile site as a guided sound tour of the collection. Selections from the project premiered during a performance by Lupe Fiasco, his students, and the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, held as the concluding event of MIT’s Artfinity arts festival. The project now reaches a broader audience that can experience the recordings in front of the public artworks that inspired them. Within a week of launching on the platform, the List Center’s digital guide saw a 300% increase in user engagement.