The Master of Fine Arts (MFA) at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture represents a supportive cohort of dynamic artists who are committed to intellectual rigor, unabashed experimentation, and to each other. The program’s intensive, exploratory approach to sculpture—including material and object-based practices, film and video, sound, performance, socially engaged art, large-scale architectural installation, research-based practices, digital fabrication and time-based media—offers students exciting opportunities for collaboration and discourse with Tyler’s entire faculty and MFA community, as well as access to all of Tyler’s specialized shops and state-of-the-art facilities.

The MFA curriculum emphasizes mentorship, interdisciplinarity, exploration, and research to enrich practices and create theoretical, philosophical and concrete links between art and society.

Located in Philadelphia, a vibrant and affordable city with easy access to New York, Tyler offers MFA students opportunities to immerse themselves in a lively contemporary art scene and a culturally rich and complex urban environment—an ideal home base for students seeking to create and engage within Tyler, the neighboring communities and the city at-large. A Tyler Sculpture MFA degree prepares graduates to be practicing professional artists and educators at colleges and universities.