Rising junior Jessie Wang, the AR Coordinator for The Borderline Mural Project, paints a section of the wall.
As you travel through the tunnels beneath MIT, you may spot a few common sights: doors to mysteriously named labs, stray office chairs, lots of students, and some tourists. But these days, there's something new to discover in the tunnels - 200 feet of student-created art. 'Walking through the tunnels I thought, 'This is basically just a blank canvas,'- says Julia Rue, rising senior and lead on The Borderline mural, a new collaborative art project in the tunnel underneath Vassar Street. The Borderline mural was unveiled in May, but the idea for it came just months before, prompted by the first meeting of 21M.601 (Drawing for Designers ). 'Our professor asked everyone why they took the course,' Rue explains. 'And I was surprised by how many people said they used to do a lot of art in high school but stopped when they got to MIT.' This gave Rue the idea for a large art project that could involve students across MIT. First, she received a grant from the Council for the Arts at MIT.
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