About Tyler

The Tyler School of Art and Architecture educates and inspires students to be active participants in society with the highest aspirations for creative and social achievement, individual expression, scholarly discovery and innovation.

It is a community of makers and thinkers from many practices, cultures and backgrounds. Part of Temple University—a large, urban, public research university—students engage with the world’s most urgent and complex issues of local and global societies as artists, designers, educators, scholars, organizational leaders and in newly emerging occupations.

Learn more about Tyler’s mission, vision and values, as well as its breadth of programs at tyler.temple.edu.

Why STELLA?

STELLA is the virtual iteration of Tyler’s physical gallery, The Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery. Both are named after Stella Elkins Tyler who, in the 1930s, offered her estate in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, to Temple University, with the express wish that, through her mentor, the sculptor Boris Blai, it would become an environment for study in the arts. This would become what is today the Tyler School of Art and Architecture.

Learn more about Tyler’s history, explore faculty, notable alumni and student work, and much more at tyler.temple.edu.