Bring an open mind and an open heart. Join an interdisciplinary community of artists who collaborate to influence the world.
The Tyler School of Art and Architecture offers a wide array of studio art disciplines. Here, you learn the power of interdisciplinary study. You experience the strength and inspiration of collaboration. You understand the real value of an art degree for your future success and for the world — whether you make art your whole career or not.
The Tyler School of Art and Architecture provides a comprehensive education in art — where you develop a balance of conceptual and technical skills as an artist and creative-thinker.
Everything we require, every way we challenge you, everything you learn, builds upon your prior coursework and personal development.
Tyler designed your degree program to establish vital connections with your classmates across studio art disciplines. That’s how the art world, and the world at large, works, so that’s how we teach.
All 8 of the studio art BFA degrees at Tyler begin with a 1-year art foundations program.
Through additional core courses required year to year, you and your cross-disciplinary peers reconnect to learn collaborative art practices and to apply those practices along with research and critical analysis based on annual themes.
The idea of studio artists working alone and somehow removed from the world is outdated. All that you are and all that you do exists at a crossroads.
That’s why Tyler encourages you to understand true collaboration as living, breathing relationships with people, nature, places and emerging issues.
Your work inside and outside of art shapes you into a leader with social and civic responsibility. To demonstrate your professional readiness, all 8 studio art BFA degrees at Tyler conclude with your choice of 4 capstone thesis options.
Tyler offers multiple programs in Architecture and Environmental Design, providing a range of opportunities for students at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
As you consider your art school options, remember all the ways the Tyler School of Art and Architecture nurtures your creative spirit and prepares you for graduate school, professional practice or other creative career pursuits.
Reach out to Tyler’s embedded admissions team with any questions or to get specific information you need.
Tyler proudly confers a broad range of studio art degrees.
BFAs in studio arts
Add creative entrepreneurship certificate
Add art education concentration
All of Tyler’s studio art BFA degrees give you two ways to expand your career options and professional preparation. Add something extra to your degree and give yourself the advantage and flexibility to take on opportunities that arise throughout your life.
Thanks to a partnership with Temple University’s Fox School of Business you can add a creative entrepreneurship certificate to any of Tyler’s studio art degrees. Integrate business savvy and feel prepared for the financial and other considerations in your career.
Tyler also gives you the option of adding an art education teaching concentration to your BFA degree. Join the many teaching artists who find and spark the artist within all of us, including future generations in schools and art programs of all kinds.
Draw upon Philadelphia’s longstanding clay culture as you explore experimental clay techniques. Learn to incorporate digital technologies in your creative methods. Build your skills and confidence with ceramic’s complexity of materials and processes by studying the relevant chemistry, and variety of equipment that influence your work.
Take a bold, interdisciplinary approach to working with fibers and materials. Challenge yourself to bring your visions and values to one of the oldest and most accessible artistic traditions. Study how history and culture influence this media. Be brave enough to break those barriers through self-expression.
Glasswork is a collaborative discipline with a tight-knit artistic community that supports your artistic expression. Tyler’s well-equipped studios give you the space and the tools to create glass sculptures that shine a light on your unique perspectives. You will study a full range of glass processes, including glassblowing, hot-casting, kiln-casting, flame-working, performance and more.
Join the pioneers at Tyler’s Metals / Jewelry / CAD-CAM program. Drop any preexisting ideas about jewelry and metal work. Open your mind and heart to what’s possible with new attitudes, techniques and processes. Study time-honored techniques and transcend traditions by adding computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing to your skillset.
Since its inception, photography has held a place of cultural prominence. That’s increasingly true because of the pervasive use of photographs on digital platforms of all kinds. Tyler takes an interdisciplinary approach that helps you grow as an artist and image maker, using cutting- edge digital technologies along side historic practices.
Since its inception, photography has held a place of cultural prominence. That’s increasingly true because of the pervasive use of photographs on digital platforms of all kinds. Tyler takes an interdisciplinary approach that helps you grow as an artist and image maker, using traditional and cutting edge digital technologies beside historic practices.
Study the full range of traditional printmaking techniques — intaglio, relief, lithography, mono-print, letterpress, book arts and screen printing. Also explore what’s possible, using the latest experimental and digital technologies. Tyler combines studio practice with career development to help you find and follow your path forward.
Prepare for unabashed experimentation. Maybe even toss out old ideas about sculpture and the role of artists in the world today. Tyler shows you what’s possible, starting with object making and going in all new directions with evolving technologies, research-based practices and interdisciplinary projects.
Studio art majors can add these art and design minors to their BFA degrees:
If you’re majoring in something else at Temple University, it’s simple to add a minor in art and a great way to expand your creative and critical thinking and to stand out in your chosen field.
At Tyler, you gain broad, transferable skills as a thoughtful, collaborative and confident professional — in any career you choose.
Explore the variety of work Tyler’s close-knit community of artists creates across our many studio art degree programs.
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See the latest from Tyler’s art faculty and alumni. Feel challenged and inspired by how they push boundaries. Really look at their techniques, visual communication and messaging, including how it all nods to art’s history, present and future.
The Tyler School of Art and Architecture is a vital part of the art world — not separate from it. That’s one reason we bring visiting artists and lecturers to campus throughout the academic year. We encourage you to connect with these thought-leaders, all at the top of their chosen fields. We hope you feel inspired by what’s possible and driven to pursue your own excellence before and after you graduate.
Hear from leading practitioners, scholars, curators and other arts professionals about current issues in art and design.
The Laurie Wagman Visiting Artist and Artist-in-Residence Series, presented by our Glass Program, emphasizes interdisciplinary perspectives that combine research with studio practice.
The Jack Wolgin Annual Visiting Artist and Lecturer is an endowed program that brings one of the nation's most influential artists and thinkers to campus to work with Tyler students and present a free public lecture each year.
Your studio art degree from Tyler includes a course called Art in Practice. This writing-intensive class integrates professional preparation with the help of your faculty-mentors and Tyler’s career services experts. By studying yourself, you gain keen insights into your strengths and the unique skills and systems you need to build a sustainable creative practice, career and community.
Read the latest news from our dynamic community of working professionals / faculty, current students and successful alumni.
You really need to experience the Tyler School of Art and Architecture in person. We offer tours most weekdays at 1 pm. We’d also love to see you at these upcoming events — on and off campus.
