Sheridan’s Crafts and Design programs represent the gold standard for Canadian craft instruction. Our award-winning faculty offer intensive, hands-on education in four disciplines: ceramics, fabrics, furniture and glass. Immersed in a community of dedicated craftspeople, you’ll develop outstanding creative and technical skill and work in world-class craft studios. You’ll begin designing and making objects in the first week of the program; by the third year you might be showing your work in high-profile exhibitions and galleries, while developing the professional contacts and business sense you need for artistic and commercial success.
First-rate Faculty and Equipment
The Furniture Studio at Sheridan offers Canada’s most respected furniture design and fabrication program. Our faculty, all accomplished designers and craftspeople, provide an introduction to professional practice and a solid conceptual overview of contemporary and historical practices in furniture design.
First-year furniture design courses focus on traditional wood joinery, while the second year introduces advanced techniques in bending, jig-making and veneering. As you move through the program, you’ll have the option to work with non-wood materials such as cast and fabricated metals, plastics, glass and stone. By Year 3 you’ll be pursuing self-directed furniture design, with the objectives of off-campus group exhibitions and commissioned projects.
Sheridan’s Furniture Studio is maintained by a full-time technologist and ranks as one of the best-equipped facilities in Canada.
Crafts and Design – Furniture courses are held at the Trafalgar Road Campus in Oakville, Ontario.
Sheridan’s reputation as a leader in furniture design instruction leads to exceptional career opportunities for graduates of the furniture program.Our graduates routinely go on to set up their own furniture studios or take jobs with independent furniture fabricators or industrial manufacturers, working in a variety of design and fabrication positions.
Program Eligibility
Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent, including these required courses:
• One English, Grade 12 (ENG4C or ENG4U)
plus
• One senior-level visual arts credit at the (M) or (Open) level*
or
• A portfolio*
or
Mature student status. (See "Admissions" section for details.)
* Applicants who are unable to complete a visual arts credit will be required to submit a portfolio. A portfolio assessment fee will be charged.
Applicant Selection
Eligible applicants will be selected on the basis of previous academic achievement (the average of their six highest senior-level credits, including required courses), and the results of their portfolio assessment, if required.
Applicants who do not meet the admission requirements for this program will be assessed and advised individually and may be considered for other, related programs.