Classes

• + Beginner Classes
  • Basic Jewelry 1
  • Basic Jewelry 1 & 2 :: 8 week course
  • Earrings: Hoops & Posts
  • Electrolytic Etching - Etch without Acid
  • Enameling 1
  • Fusing Argentium Links
  • Intro to Soldering - Stack Rings
  • Lost Wax Casting 1
  • Metal Clay 1
  • Metal Clay 1: Charm Bracelet
  • Revolving Ring
  • Wire Wrapping
• + Level 2 Classes
  • Enameling 2: Cloisonné and Champlevé
  • Hydraulic Press
  • Jewelry 2
  • Jewelry 3 & 4 :: 8 week course
  • Jewelry 5 & 6: 8 week course
  • Jewelry 6: Gold
  • Jewelry Repair
  • Lost Wax 3: Stone Setting in Wax
  • Metal Clay 2: Hinges and Movement
  • Recycle your Scrap into New Jewelry
  • Setting Techniques for Enamels
  • Stone Setting 1: Tube, Flush, and Prongs
  • Stone Setting 3: Bead Setting and Pavé
• + Open Studios
  • Open Studio
• + Visiting Guest Instructors
  • Cloisonné: New Frontiers- a workshop with Aurélie Guillaume
  • 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
  • Enamel Oddities with Keith Lewis
  • Enameling with Ginbari Foil with Gabrielle Castonguay
  • Enameling: Color, Light and Line with Linda Darty
  • Enameling: Painterly Effects with Gabrielle Castonguay
  • Form and Function: Engineering for Multiples with Jayne Redman
  • Fusing, Fabricating & Granulating in Argentium with Ronda Coryell
  • Hand Engraving with Hratch Nargizian
  • 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
  • Steel and Gold with Bette Barnett

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 Earrings: Hoops & Posts Enameling 1 Enameling 2: Cloisonné and Champlevé Fusing Argentium Links Intro to Soldering - Stack Rings Open Studio Recycle your Scrap into New Jewelry Revolving Ring Setting Techniques for Enamels Wire Wrapping