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.
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, we have been a leader in the discipline for 40 years.
Our 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.
Crafts and Design – Glass courses are held at the Trafalgar Road Campus in Oakville, Ontario.
Alumni and students of the Glass Studio at Sheridan College are noted internationally for their creativity, design and technical skill. Students regularly win numerous awards at Glass Art Society Conferences across North America, and graduates have gone on to establish scores of studios and glass-related enterprises and educational programs across Canada.
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.