Sculpture continuously redefines itself, and so can you! Find your voice. Feel engaged. Explore contextual relationships to objects, spaces and people.
Join a lively community of innovative, cross-disciplinary artists and thinkers who approach their work and the world in ever-changing ways. Here, you learn to collaborate and explore contemporary sculpture as your studio practice across all forms and media, including the use of sounds, lens-based media and performance to enhance your work.
Tyler offers an MFA in sculpture . Learn more about furthering your education here.
The sculpture program at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University in Philadelphia provides opportunities to develop theoretical and technical skills across a variety of forms and media.
Thanks to the resources of both a renowned art school and a large, public university in a major city, you get access to exceptional mentors, large, well-equipped studios and the tools for research-based practice.
Make Tyler your hub for growth as a contemporary sculptor, who engages in socially significant work and conceptual reasoning.
Sculpture gives you an artistic outlet for your world view and expression. It’s a fortification, of sorts, where you gain greater strength, confidence and inspiration through your artistic practice and self-examination.
The natural exchange of ideas and meaningful collaborations inside our stand-alone art building make Tyler an exceptional place to earn your degree and develop your artistic voice. Everything starts with your 1-year foundations program and continues through core coursework with peers from all the studio arts disciplines.
Because you enjoy easy access to your faculty-mentors and share equipment and spaces with Tyler’s sculpture MFA students, you see how more experienced artists solve problems and approach their work. They benefit as well from your fresh ideas and questions.
Leverage the city of Philadelphia too. As a longtime center for ideas and change-makers, the city gives you deep access to museums and galleries and a community full of internship and career options. Our location also makes it easy to connect with the 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.
As a dynamic, contemporary art form, sculpture is an adaptive practice. It doesn’t dictate your work or your process. Let Tyler’s exceptional faculty — all working artists and researchers themselves — teach you to find and develop ideas and concepts, long before you consider the medium or the space.
Use your curiosity and open heart to explore a diversity of mediums and techniques. Be open to all means of discovery that move your creative process forward and add context and action to your work.
Tyler teaches you deep understanding of theories, materials and technical applications.
At Tyler, we encourage you to tap into the DIY ethos and self-reliance within our community of sculptors. At the same time, make the most of the generosity and collaborative spirit from your peers, faculty-mentors and workshop technical staff.
In other words, you can do your own thing. Just know we’re here to support your vision and professional growth as an artist and thinker.
The sculpture area serves as a hub. In addition to coursework and your studio art practice, plan on being involved.
Shared meals and conversations
Thoughtful gatherings and screenings
Supportive critiques and project experimentation
Through studio courses and field trips, Tyler gives you the chance to explore art-making strategies in social and cultural contexts. You graduate prepared for entry into MFA programs or to begin a fulfilling and interesting career.
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.
This program prepares BFA students, with an approved course of study, to qualify for Pennsylvania Teaching Certification in Art, kindergarten through twelfth grade. Students must complete the BFA requirements along with 32 credit hours in education, art education, and specified liberal arts courses. Education-related studies begin in the sophomore year. Students generally take 5 years to fulfill all requirements or the 155 credit degree. All candidates for Pennsylvania Teaching Certificate in Art, K-12 must earn passing scores in the Praxis I and II National Teacher Examinations, Elementary Education: General Knowledge, and the Art Education Examinations.
Browse the list of popular classes in your academic rotation as you earn your BFA in sculpture at Tyler.
In addition to gaining technical fluency with a variety of methods and media, Tyler’s BFA degree teaches you transferable skills that build your professional confidence in any setting.
Graduates of Tyler’s BFA in sculpture degree program pursue a wide range of career options. Whatever path you choose, the Tyler emphasis on developing both your artistic voice and technical skills makes you a flexible, adaptable professional wherever your career takes you.
Tyler’s sculpture degree program reveals open borders for artistic expression so that pushing boundaries feels not only doable but expected. Our space inside Tyler’s stand-alone building creates a learning environment that mirrors life as a professional artist.
Tyler devotes more than 16,000 square feet to sculpture program spaces and work areas. Thanks to plenty of natural light and a vast array of equipment and tools, you’ll feel inspired and challenged to do your best work yet, every time.
Tyler’s workshops feature full-time staff to help you plan your sculpture projects and use tools and equipment safely and effectively. In most cases, your course fees cover most of any materials costs.
Venture out of your studios with your sculpture classmates and other studio arts program peers to visit studios, galleries, exhibitions and events in Philadelphia and beyond.
So much groundbreaking work happens inside your own head. That’s why it’s good to get outside of yourself and your studio. Consider going abroad to study in Rome or Tokyo as part of your BFA in sculpture — typically during your junior year.
See how your future classmates at Tyler use the studio spaces, workshops and exhibit spaces for cross pollination and hybrid projects of all sizes and media.
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Dive deeper into the innovative projects and diverse talents of our students. Discover a wider range of creative work, from cutting-edge designs to thought-provoking concepts, and see how our Tyler creative's are shaping the world around them.
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 sculpture BFA here.
At Tyler, you get to work side-by-side with faculty members — all practicing artists themselves. Committed to giving you abundant and continuous access to their support and mentorship, your professors push you to develop your unique artistic voice and processes. 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 sculpture program leadership.
Assistant Professor and Program Head of Sculpture of Director of Graduate Studies
sharyn.omara@temple.edu
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