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.

Conceptual Artistry and Technical Skill: The Glass Studio at Sheridan has an international reputation for producing artists of outstanding creativity, design sense, and technical skill. Recent glass design graduates have won scholarships from Corning, the Glass Art Society, and Pilchuk. One of the oldest and largest instructional glass design programs in North America, Sheridan has been a leader in the discipline for 40 years.

The glass design and glass blowing courses are rooted in hands-on practice, and they nurture conceptual artistry side by side with technical skills. You’ll develop a personal aesthetic while becoming proficient in blowing, casting, kiln working, and flame-working. You’ll also learn engraving, a technique no other glass design program teaches.

Courses and studio work are enhanced by frequent field trips to conferences, museums, galleries, and glass design studios. In addition, prominent visiting artists work with Sheridan students via on-campus workshops and lectures.You’ll graduate with an outstanding portfolio and the preparation you need for a career as a working glass artist.

• 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 Studio Courses:  
  • Introduction to Glassforming

• Figure Drawing Or  
• Figure Drawing or
  Object Drawing
  3-D Design
  Introduction to Digital Technology
  Art, Crafts and Technology before the 20th Century
  Plus Studio Courses:
  Glass Engraving
  Basic Hot Glassforming
  Basic Cold Glassforming
  Glass History
  Figure Drawing or  
• Object Drawing
• 3-D Design
• Introduction to Digital Technology
• Art, Crafts and Technology before the 20th Century
• Plus Studio Courses:
  • Glass Engraving
  • Basic Hot Glass forming
  • Basic Cold Glass forming
  • Glass History

• Material Exploration
• Production Technology and Resourcing
• General Education Elective
• Glass: Concept Development
• Foundations in Glassforming
• Glass Chemistry and Technology

• Craft in the 20th century
• Digital Presentation
• Plus Choose One Of The Following:  
  • Presentation Drawing
  • Expressive Drawing
  • Glass: Evolving Concepts
  • Intermediate Glass forming

• Business Practice
• Independent Research Paper
• General Education Elective  
• Glass: Critical Analysis
• Advanced Glassforming
• Experimental Glass

• Professional Practice
• Exhibition Production
• Glass: Personal Exploration
• Strategies in Glassforming
• Glass Marketing and Exhibition Planning