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 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. Our 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.

Crafts and Design – Furniture courses are held at the Trafalgar Road Campus in Oakville, Ontario.