Classes & Events

• + Beginner Classes
  • Basic Jewelry 1
  • Basic Jewelry 1 & 2 :: 8 week course
  • Enameling 1
  • Forged Fibulas
  • Intro to Soldering - Stack Rings
  • Tool Making Workshop
• + Level 2 Classes
  • Anticlastic Jewelry
  • Enameling 3: Exploring Liquid Enamels and Special Effects
  • Gold-Filled Jewelry
  • Metal Clay 2: Base Metal Clays Copper and Bronze
  • Metal Clay 2: Mokume
  • Torches: Safety and Setup for the Studio
• + Online Classes
  • American Modernist Jewelry (online)
  • Argentium Ring (online)
  • Electroforming (online)
  • Enameling 1 (online)
  • Fancy Cut Stone Setting (online)
  • Filigree 1 - Introduction to Filigree with Milt Fischbein (online)
  • Filigree 2: Coils and Middle Eastern Flowers (online)
  • Gold-Filled Jewelry (online)
  • Intro to Sawing and Riveting (online)
  • Intro to Soldering (online)
  • Japanese Metalworking (online)
  • Jewelry 1 - Basics (online)
  • Jewelry 2 - Chain and Prong Setting (online)
  • Jewelry 3 - Bezels, Borders and Overlay (online)
  • Jewelry 4 - Ingots, Forging and Hollow Forms (online)
  • Jewelry 6 - Gold (online)
  • Lost Wax Casting 1 - Basics (online)
  • Lost Wax Casting 2 - Molds and Found Objects (online)
  • Lost Wax Casting 3 - Stone Setting in Wax (online)
  • Lost Wax Casting 4 - Figurative Wax Carving (online)
  • Metal Clay 1 - The Basics- Earrings (online)
  • Metal Clay 1: Charm Bracelet (online)
  • Metal Clay 2 - Rings with Attitude (online)
  • Metal Clay 2: A Splash of Gold (online)
  • Metal Clay 2: Hinges and Movement (online)
  • Metal Clay and Enameling (online)
  • Paint and Draw on Metal (online)
  • Plique-a-jour Enameling (online)
  • Polish and Finish (online)
  • Reticulation and Keum Boo (online)
  • Revolving Ring (online)
  • Rolling Mill (online)
  • Setting Stones on Stones (online)
  • Starting your Jewelry Business: Photography and Social Media (Online)
  • Starting your Jewelry Business: Producing a Line (online)
  • Stone Setting 1: Tube, Flush and Prong (online)
  • Stone Setting 2: Open Bezels, Free Form Prongs, and Thick Bezels (online)
  • Tool Making (online)
• + Online Events
  • Student Peer Group Meeting (online)
• + Visiting Guest Instructors
  • Engraving with Hratch Nargizian - 4 days
  • Engraving with Hratch Nargizian - 5 days
  • Mokume Gane with Eric Burris

Anat Silvera

ANAT SILVERA has loved jewelry since she was a little girl in Los Angeles. Before and after college she studied with artists and craftsmen, apprenticing as a metalsmith and learning how to create fine beadwork.  Anat has exhibited and sold her work all over the U.S., including an exhibit as a featured artist at the Oakland Museum of Art Collector’s Gallery. She has taught jewelry in the Bay Area for years.    Anat teaches beadwork and wirework, enameling and metalsmithing classes at the Silvera Jewelry School and Baubles and Beads in Berkeley, Ca. She also has taught in Anchorage, AK, and at national bead festivals, like the Bead & Button Show and BeadFest. Find out more about Anat's work and career and our jewelry school...   Classes Taught By Anat Silvera: Basic Jewelry 1 Basic Jewelry 1 & 2 :: 8 week course Enameling 1 Enameling 1 (online) Enameling 3: Exploring Liquid Enamels and Special Effects Gold-Filled Jewelry Gold-Filled Jewelry (online) Intro to Soldering - Stack Rings Metal Clay and Enameling (online) Plique-a-jour Enameling (online) Revolving Ring (online) Setting Stones on Stones (online)