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
  • Contemporary Cloisonné with Ruth Ball
  • Enameling 1 - Basics
  • Enameling 4 - Plique-a-jour
  • Sifters! Sifters! Sifters!
  • Trivet Making
• + Independent Studies
  • Growing Your Voice
• + Jewelry Business
  • Starting Your Jewelry Business: Pricing, Brand, and Marketing
• + Jewelry Fabrication
  • Brooch Back Mountings
  • Designs in Woven Metal with Jeanie Pratt
  • Engineering Your Way Out with Alison Antelman
  • Filigree 1 - Introduction to Filigree with Milt Fischbein (online)
  • Filigree 3 - Filigree Rings
  • Filigree 4 - Filigree Cuffs
  • Forming for Multiples with Jayne Redman
  • Imaginative Captures with Andy Cooperman
  • Jewelry 1 - Basics
  • Jewelry 2 - Chain and Prong Setting
  • Jewelry 3 - Bezels, Borders and Overlay
  • Jewelry 4 - Ingots, Forging and Hollow Forms
  • Jewelry 6 - Gold
  • Jewelry Repair
  • Piercework Mastery
  • Polish and Finish
• + Jewelry History + Technique
  • American Modernist Jewelry
  • Art Nouveau Jewelry
  • Mexican Silver
  • Mourning Jewelry
• + Metal Clay
  • Metal Clay 1: Basics -Pendant and Earrings
  • Metal Clay 2- Chains and Connections
  • Metal Clay 2: A Splash of Gold
  • Metal Clay and Enameling
  • Metal Clay: Organics in Metal Clay
• + Stone Setting
  • Stone Setting: Open Bezels, Free Form Prongs, and Thick Bezels
  • Stone Setting: Tube, Flush and Prong
• + Surface and Textures
  • Eastern Chasing and Repoussé with Victoria Lansford
  • Engraving with Hratch Nargizian - 4 days
  • Engraving with Hratch Nargizian - 5 days
  • Fusing Powdered Metals to Steel with Bette Barnett
  • Granulation Ring with Victoria Lansford
  • Paint and Draw on Metal

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: Enameling 1 - Basics Growing Your Voice Metal Clay and Enameling Trivet Making