Classes

• – Beginner Classes
  • Basic Jewelry 1
  • Basic Jewelry 1 & 2 :: 8 week course
  • Color and Patina
  • Computer Aided Design for Jewelry
  • Earrings: Hoops & Posts
  • Electroforming
  • Electrolytic Etching - Etch without Acid
  • Enameling 1
  • Foldforming Workshop
  • Fusing Argentium Links
  • Intro to Soldering - Earrings
  • Intro to Soldering - Stack Rings
  • Lost Wax Casting 1
  • Lost Wax Casting 1 :: 8 week course
  • Metal Clay 1: Charm Bracelet
  • Metal Clay 1: The Basics
  • Metal Clay 1: The Basics - A Day of Earrings
  • Revolving Ring
  • Tool Making Workshop
• + Level 2 Classes
  • Bangles and Cuffs
  • Cascade Earrings and Hidden Connections
  • Enameling 2: Cloisonné
  • Fast Finish: Polishing With Power Tools
  • Gold-Filled Jewelry
  • Hydraulic Press
  • Jewelry 3
  • Jewelry 3 & 4 :: 8 week course
  • Jewelry 4: Rolling Mill & Hollow Forms
  • Jewelry 5 & 6: 8 week course
  • Jewelry 6: Gold
  • Laser Welding
  • Lost Wax 2: Molds & Found Objects
  • Lost Wax 3: Stone Setting in Wax
  • Metal Clay 2: Base Metal Clays Copper and Bronze
  • Metal Clay 2: Metal Clay Paper - Quilling, Origami and More
  • Metal Clay 2: Rings with Attitude
  • Metal Clay 2: Sterling Cuffs & Split Rings
  • Production Jewelry 1: Design
  • Production Jewelry 2: Business and Marketing
  • Reticulation and Keum Boo
  • Setting Stones on Stones
  • Stone Setting 1: Tube, Flush, and Prongs
  • Stone Setting 3: Bead Setting and Pavé
  • Torches: Safety and Setup for the Studio
• + Open Studios
  • Open Studio
• + Summer Jewelry Intensives
  • Jewelry Stone Setting Intensive
  • Lost Wax Casting Intensive
• + Visiting Guest Instructors
  • Counter Sketching and Color Rendering with Rémy Rotenier
  • Designs in Woven Metal with Jeanie Pratt
  • Dimensional Enamel: 3D Torch Fired Enameling with Anne Havel
  • Earthrise Reticulated Cuff with Michael Thee and Mary Wohlgemuth
  • Enameling with Ginbari Foil with Gabrielle Castonguay
  • Enameling: Painterly Effects with Gabrielle Castonguay
  • Engraving with Hratch Nargizian - 5 days
  • Fusing, Fabricating & Granulating in Argentium with Ronda Coryell
  • In the Heat of the Moment: Torch Firing Enamel with Anne Havel
  • Mokume Gane with Eric Burris
  • Northern Nights Ring with Michael Thee and Mary Wohlgemuth

Basic Jewelry 1 & 2 :: 8 week course

Monday, October 21, 2019 - Monday, December 16, 2019
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Cost: $625.00

Join us for this 8 week course in the basics of jewelry fabrication: from bezels to soldering and beyond! Practicing weekly is a great way to build skills that will last. Class meets once a week for 8 weeks. Open Studios are available for more practice time outside of class. 

This class focuses on the basics of creating jewelry: sawing, filing, sanding, texturing, soldering, stamping, polishing, and stone setting. Students will make sample projects including a pendant, ring, prong setting with a bail, and a chain bracelet.

Techniques covered include:

• Stone setting: bezels
• Sawing
• Filing
• Sanding
• Soldering
• Sweat soldering
• How to make a ring
• Stamping
• Hammering and texture
• Polishing with power tools
• Fabricating a prong setting
• Making a bail for pendant
• Making a custom chain and soldering links
• Twisting metal
• Forging
• Metals used for projects included sterling, copper and brass

Kit of materials, full color handout and use of tools included.

Class policies for refunds, transfers and cancelations.

 

Prerequisites:

Open to all levels - beginners welcome! 

Location: Silvera Jewelry School, Berkeley, CA

Instructors: Anat Silvera or Jenn Parnell or Joe Silvera

Upcoming Workshop Dates
Date(s)	Times
Mon. Dec 16	6:30PM-9:30PM
Thu. Dec 19	10AM-1PM	Sold Out
Mon. Jan 6, Mon. Jan 13, Mon. Jan 20, Mon. Jan 27, Mon. Feb 3, Mon. Feb 10, Mon. Feb 17, Mon. Feb 24	6:30PM-9:30PM	Sold Out
Wed. Jan 8, Wed. Jan 15, Wed. Jan 22, Wed. Jan 29, Wed. Feb 5, Wed. Feb 12, Wed. Feb 19, Wed. Feb 26	2:30PM-5:30PM	Register
Mon. Mar 16, Mon. Mar 23, Mon. Mar 30, Mon. Apr 6, Mon. Apr 13, Mon. Apr 20, Mon. Apr 27, Mon. May 4	10AM-1PM	Register
Thu. Mar 26, Thu. Apr 2, Thu. Apr 9, Thu. Apr 16, Thu. Apr 23, Thu. Apr 30, Thu. May 7, Thu. May 14	6:30PM-9:30PM	Register
Wed. Apr 29, Wed. May 6, Wed. May 13, Wed. May 20, Wed. May 27, Wed. Jun 3, Wed. Jun 10, Wed. Jun 17	10AM-1PM	Register
Mon. Aug 3, Mon. Aug 10, Mon. Aug 17, Mon. Aug 24, Mon. Aug 31, Mon. Sep 14, Mon. Sep 21, Mon. Sep 28	6:30PM-9:30PM	Register