Glass

The Tyler School of Art and Architecture’s Glass program is a leading center of interdisciplinary thought and practice with unmatched facilities and equipment.

Glass students at Tyler join a welcoming, high-energy community of artists and educators who work in expansive studios that provide opportunities to learn the full range of glass processes: glassblowing, hot-casting, kiln-casting, flame-working, performance and more. In addition to traditional and innovative techniques, students learn how to think critically and solve problems—all while taking full advantage of the school’s location in Philadelphia, a vibrant art center with a strong glass art tradition and the resources to grow creative practices and businesses.

Facilities

  • 10,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility devoted solely to glass
  • A hot shop with two 530-pound day tanks; four benches; four glory holes; 10 dedicated annealers; 730-pound casting furnace with six annealers, including a car kiln; and four flame-working stations
  • A cold shop with the latest Czech and Merker lathes
  • A kiln room with 16 kilns for slumping, fusing and kiln-casting and a one-ton crane for large molds
  • Large, dedicated studio for undergraduate Glass majors, critique room and smart classroom

Visiting artists and lecturers
The Laurie Wagman Visiting Artist and Artist-in-Residence Series in Glass and other visiting artist programs bring leading national and international artists to enrich the Tyler Glass experience and join MFA students for one-on-one time in their studios. Past recipients include James Carpenter, Doreen Garner, Beth Lipman and Judith Schaecter.

 

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Upcoming Events

  • October 18, 2023
  • 6:00pm

Philadelphia-based contemporary artist Isaac Tin Wei Lin, whose densely covered surfaces of calligraphic, brushed and hand-drawn patterns...

Lecture Series and Seminars

  • October 18, 2023
  • 6:00pm

Philadelphia-based contemporary artist Isaac Tin Wei Lin, whose densely covered surfaces of calligraphic, brushed and hand-drawn patterns...

  • November 15, 2023
  • 6:00pm

Lauren Kalman is a visual artist based in Detroit (USA) whose practice is rooted in contemporary craft, sculpture, video, photography and...

News

  • Alumna Shows Pride through Philly's Chinese Lantern Festival

    Journeying from China to Philadelphia to study at Temple nearly 10 years ago, Ellen Zhang, TYL ’17, now gets to showcase the pride she has in her heritage as arts and ...

  • Jason McDonald (MFA '23) Honored With Glass Commission for Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

    Tyler graduate student Jason McDonald (MFA ‘23) has been fascinated by glassblowing since age 14, when he dived into the practice through the Hilltop Artists program i...

  • Scout Cartagena (BFA '22) Probes Memory, Illness, and Accessibility in Print and Glass

    Scout Cartagena’s (BFA ‘22) multimedia work explores themes of memory, connection, and their identity as a queer, Afro-Latinx, non-able-bodied person. While at Tyler, ...

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    • MFA in Glass

      The MFA experience at Tyler Glass is defined by a commitment to cultivating each graduate student’s unique voice, with glass as only one of many modes of expression. Students explore the intersections of glass, sculpture, installation, video,... More More about MFA in Glass

    Alumni Spotlight

    Yixuan Pan (MFA '17)

    Yixuan Pan (MFA '17) translates language through various devices: poetry, swimming pool, lollipops, soap bubbles, music therapy, glass shards, escorted situations, love letter, or whatever. By dislocating language from its context and form, she questions the words/sentences people learn and unlearn, specifically on its comfort, temperature, power, transparency, and hierarchy. She also received Tyler's Laurie Wagman Prize—a prestigious award given to just one graduating student in the school's Glass Program each year. More