The decision to pursue a creative graduate degree is a profound one. It’s a decision to commit to a practice – a rigorous discipline – that will ask you to dig deeper and challenge yourself more than ever before.
The Tyler School of Art and Architecture graduate program experience
Offering graduate programs in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Planning, Studio Art, Design, Art Education and Art History, Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture is your catalytic partner in this endeavor.
At Tyler inspiration is everywhere
Learn from the best minds and hands shaping contemporary art, design and the built environment. Work with faculty mentors who will nudge you to take bigger risks, cross disciplinary boundaries and think about the role and consequences of innovation. Make art, build models or design spaces in workshops, labs and studios bathed in light.
With the vast resources of a top-tier research university – and the arts- and history-minded city of Philadelphia behind you – build skills and a body of work for a dynamic career and purposeful life.
Through workshops, labs, design studios and collaboration, your graduate degree programs in Architecture, Landscape, Facilities Planning and City and Regional Planning will give you the knowledge and technical skills to help shape the built and natural environments of the future.
Tyler’s multidisciplinary MFA graduate degree immerses you in your area of Studio Art while also asking you to travel the landscape of the other major disciplines to connect, think and see differently.
A STEM-designated program, Tyler’s MFA in Graphic and Interactive Design will expose you to emerging technologies and customizable professional practice courses, while pushing you to stretch the boundaries of your own work.
If you are a practicing artist, the Master of Education in Art (MEd) program gives you K-12 teaching skills and the credential to teach. For teachers, the Art Education master’s program gives you the milieu and space to flourish as a studio artist.
In this rigorous, intimate program, you will work closely with a faculty mentor to attain the intellectual and research skills necessary to work in high-level curatorial positions and academia.
As a Tyler graduate student you will work with world-class teachers who are also practitioners, whether they are making vanguard art, serving as active architects and city planners or contributing to the world’s knowledge base as scholars in their respective fields.
The Tyler School of Art and Architecture awards merit-based scholarships, assistantships and fellowships to qualified graduate students. Deadline for applying is Jan. 6.
MFA Installation Awarded Fiber Art Now First Prize
Mika Obayashi
Gospel of Three Dimensions
At the juried exhibition, Excellence in Fibers IX, mounted by the publication, Fiber Art Now, Fibers and Materials Studies MFA student Mika Obayashi garnered first prize for her 11-foot-tall installation, “Gospel of Three Dimensions,” a striking indigo-dyed cuboid people can experience by stepping inside.
Sculpture Professor Exhibits at 2024 Whitney Biennial
Karen Olivier
How Many Ways Can You Disappear
Tyler Professor of Sculpture Karen Oliviers work, How Many Ways Can You Disappear (2021), was showcased in the prestigious Whitney Biennial in the spring of 2024. Her piece, made from a wild tangle of rope, fishing net, buoys and lobster traps, references global migration and displacement.
Architecture Professor Awarded Fulbright Fellowship
Pablo Meninato
Unpacking Lina Bo Bardi: Politics, Multidisciplinarity and Gender.
Pablo Meninato, PhD, Associate Professor of Architecture, received a 2024–2025 Fulbright US Scholar award for a project on Italo-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi, entitled “Unpacking Lina Bo Bardi: Politics, Multidisciplinarity and Gender.” Lina was the first Latin American man to become a globally recognized architect.
