Classes & Events

• + Casting
  • Lost Wax Casting 1 - Basics
  • Lost Wax Casting 2 - Molds and Found Objects
  • Lost Wax Casting 3 - Stone Setting in Wax
  • Lost Wax Casting 4 - Figurative Wax Carving
• + Enameling
  • Alternative Settings for Enamels and Other Objects
  • Contemporary Cloisonné with Ruth Ball
  • Enameling 2: Explorations in Color
  • Enameling 4 - Plique-a-jour
  • Screenprinting for Enamel with Tanya Crane
  • Separation Oil in Enamel with Gabrielle Castonguay
  • Trivet Making
• + Independent Studies
  • Growing Your Voice
• + Jewelry Business
  • Starting your Jewelry Business: Photography and Social Media
  • Starting Your Jewelry Business: Pricing, Brand, and Marketing
  • Starting your Jewelry Business: Producing a Line
• + Jewelry Fabrication
  • Anticlastic Jewelry
  • Brooch Back Mountings
  • Chain, Chain, Chain
  • Coconut Belt Buckle with Jesse Bert
  • Designs in Woven Metal with Jeanie Pratt
  • Earrings: Hoops and Posts
  • Engineering Your Way Out with Alison Antelman
  • Forged Fibulas
  • Forming for Multiples with Jayne Redman
  • Intro to Soldering - Stack Rings
  • Jewelry 1 - Basics
  • Jewelry 2 - Chain and Prong Setting
  • Jewelry 3 - Bezels, Borders and Overlay
  • Jewelry 4 - Ingots, Forging and Hollow Forms
  • Jewelry 5 - Bracelets, Hinges and Clasps
  • Jewelry 6 - Gold
  • Jewelry Repair
  • Joyas 1- Conceptos Básicos (en línea, en español)
  • Polish and Finish
  • Soldering Mastery
  • Tools and Jigs for Multiples with Jayne Redman
  • Torch Setup and Safety
• + Jewelry History + Technique
  • Ancient Egyptian Jewelry
  • Celtic Jewelry
  • Japanese Metalworking
• + Metal Clay
  • Metal Clay 1 - The Basics- Earrings
  • Metal Clay 2 - Rings with Attitude
  • Metal Clay 2- Chains and Connections
• + Online Events
  • FREE JewelryTalk: A Spoonful of Curiosity with Gabriel Mo
• + Stone Setting
  • Fancy Cut Stone Setting
  • Stone Setting 1: Tube, Flush and Prong
  • Textured Bezels
• + Surface and Textures
  • Engraving with Hratch Nargizian - 4 days
  • Engraving with Hratch Nargizian - 5 days
  • Etching Steel for Dimension and Depth with Bette Barnett
  • Granulation Ring with Victoria Lansford
  • Mokume Gane with Eric Burris
  • Patinas: Coloring Metal
  • Steel and Gold... A Love Story with Bette Barnett
  • The Art of Stamping: Stamp Making and Stamping with Matthieu Cheminée

Anat Silvera

ANAT SILVERA is one of the founders of Silvera Jewelry School. Shehas loved jewelry since she was a little girl in Los Angeles and she is known for her helpful, wonderfully encouraging and accessible teaching style.   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 longer than she wants to admit!    Anat Silvera is the author of Enameling Made Easy: Torch-Firing Workshop for Beginners and Beyond. Currently, she is the most passionate about enameling, which offers a multi-layered depth of color and design for jewelry that is a thrill to create.    She also has taught in Anchorage, AK, and at national bead festivals, like the Bead & Button Show and BeadFest.    Classes Taught By Anat Silvera: Alternative Settings for Enamels and Other Objects Earrings: Hoops and Posts Enameling 2: Explorations in Color Growing Your Voice Intro to Soldering - Stack Rings Trivet Making