Tyler Printmaking fosters a student-centered, collaborative, learning community with a focus on curiosity and innovation.
At Tyler, you join a welcoming, collaborative printmaking community.
Bridging tradition and innovation, explore a range of printmaking techniques, including intaglio, relief, lithography, screen printing, letterpress and artist’s books, along with experimental approaches and new technologies. Our student-centered approach focuses on developing your creative voice while helping you plan a sustainable career path.
Tyler offers an MFA in printmaking. Learn more about furthering your education here.
Ranked 5th in the country by U.S. News & World Report, the printmaking program at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University in Philadelphia is known for providing a close-knit, supportive community where you feel encouraged to experiment and explore across other art disciplines. You also gain access to the opportunities and resources of a renowned art school and large, urban university.
Printmaking’s emphasis on the exchange of ideas and meaningful collaboration makes Tyler an exceptional place to earn your degree and find your artistic voice.
Because you interact closely with your faculty-mentors and share equipment and group spaces with Tyler’s printmaking MFA students, you have the opportunity to share skills and build professionalism and proficiency. Students graduate from the program with an unusually sophisticated sensibility that comes from risk taking and pro-active experimentation within a supportive community.
Philadelphia is a great learning environment. As a longtime center for arts and ideas, the city connects you with world-class museums and galleries, and a wide range of internship and career opportunities. Our location also puts you within easy reach of vibrant art scenes throughout the northeast, including New York City and Washington, D.C.
The Tyler School of Art and Architecture features its own admissions team, who can provide you with the information you need to make the best decision for your educational and career goals.
Thanks to printmaking’s approach to educating the whole person as you develop your artistic voice and plan for life, Tyler’s BFA in printmaking prepares you to seize any opportunities as they arise in your life.
Inside Tyler’s large, modern, fully equipped studios, you first learn the fundamentals of traditional hand-pulled print processes. Then, you focus on in-depth studio practice, following your interests and developing your thesis work. Along the way you will learn digital imaging, pre-press processing, large-scale and experimental approaches.
Tyler’s emphasis on interdisciplinary work encourages you to build connections across your studio art classes. The result? Your own studio practice features dynamic work with crossover elements from other fields, including photography, painting, fibers or sculpture.
Here we help you prepare for your academic and/or professional life after graduation.
Tyler builds professional development into your upper-level courses and provides a practical foundation for your career in any of the visual arts.
The Tyler School of Art and Architecture and the Fox School of Business Management collaborate to offer this undergraduate certificate in Creative Entrepreneurship for artists and other creatives who want to add business skills too.
The Bachelor of Fine Arts with an optional Concentration in Art Education, offered by the Department of Art, is one of two pathways at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture to earning art teaching certification in Pennsylvania and becoming a teaching artist.
Rather than a linear model of learning, Tyler provides an academic landscape that lets your unique creative pathway emerge
First, study the fundamentals of printmaking disciplines.
Then, take on advanced challenges like these.
In addition to learning professional printmaking skills and gaining technical fluency with a variety of printing methods and digital tools, Tyler’s BFA degree teaches you transferable skills that build your professional confidence in any setting.
Graduates of Tyler’s BFA in printmaking degree program pursue a wide range of career options. Whatever path you choose, Tyler’s emphasis on developing both personal artistic vision and technical skill makes you a flexible, adaptable artist wherever your career takes you.
Tyler’s printmaking degree program fosters community and shares opportunities that support your personal development in ways that mirror how professional artists work.
Tyler devotes nearly 10,000 square feet solely to printmaking. Work withing our 3 interconnected, modern studios with plenty of natural light. Each space is purpose-built and fully equipped for lithography, screen printing, etching, relief, monoprint and letterpress.
Tyler’s printmaking program plans a robust schedule of visiting artists, scholars, curators, writers and critics. Attend their lectures and collaborate with them to create projects and get feedback on your own work.
Join our community of printmakers as we regularly venture out of our studios to visit artists’ studios, print studios, exhibitions and events in Philadelphia and in nearby New York City.
Temple University’s campuses in Rome and Japan both feature print studios, so you can seamlessly complete course requirements toward your degree and graduate on time — while feeding your creative mind and heart by living and studying abroad.
Connect with your classmates who share a passion for printmaking through the Tyler Printmaking Guild. This student-run organization creates broader connections with artists on and off campus.
See how your future classmates at Tyler use various printmaking equipment, methods and digital tools to create meaningful artwork.
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At Tyler, you join a community of classmates, alumni and faculty-mentors who contribute their influence and thought-leadership to your academic and studio art experiences. Let them explain the strength and benefits of earning your printmaking BFA here.
At Tyler, you get to work side-by-side with faculty members — all practicing artists themselves. As mentors as well as professors, they support your growth on campus and off thanks to their extensive regional and national networks in the printmaking world. Meet your professors and learn more about their areas of expertise.
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In addition to Tyler’s specialized admissions team, you’re welcome to contact the printmaking program leadership.
Associate Professor and Program Head of Printmaking
