Sheridan’s Crafts and Design programs represent the gold standard for Canadian craft instruction. Its 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 making art in the first week of the program; by the third year you might be showing your work in high-profile craft shows and exhibitions, 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. Sheridan's instructors, 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 three 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.

• 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. 
• * 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.

Term 1

• Introduction to Object Drawing
• 2-D Design
• Essential Communication Skills
• History of Western Art
• Plus Furniture Studio Courses:  
  • Introduction to Woodworking
  • Drafting for Furniture

• Figure Drawing Or  
• Object Drawing
• 3-D Design
• Introduction to Digital Technology
• Plus Furniture Studio Courses:
  • Introduction to Wood Furniture
  • Surfaces and Finishes

• Production Technology and Resourcing
  General Education Elective
  Textile History 2
  Surface Design 1
  Dye and Print 1
  Textiles Investigations 1
  Material Exploration Or
• Production Technology and Resourcing
• Art, Craft and Technology Before the 20th Century
• General Education Elective
• Plus Furniture Studio Courses:
  • Digital Drawing
  • Materials and Techniques
  • Furniture History
  • Linear Furniture Design and Construction

Term 4

• Presentation Drawing Or  
• Expressive Drawing
• Craft in the 20th Century
• Digital Presentation
• Plus Funiture Studio Courses:
  • Commercial Furniture Practices
  • Cabinet Design and Construction

• Business Practice
• Independent Research Paper
• General Education Elective  
  • Seating
  • Speculative Furniture
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Term 6

• Professional Practice
• Exhibition Planning
• Plus Furniture Studio Courses:  
• Object of Significance
• Redesign-Remake