Classes & Events

• + Beginner Classes
  • Basic Jewelry 1
  • Basic Jewelry 1 & 2 :: 8 week course
  • Earrings: Hoops & Posts
  • Electroforming
  • Enameling 1
  • Forged Fibulas
  • Intro to Soldering - Stack Rings
  • Lost Wax Casting 1
  • Lost Wax Casting 1 :: 8 week course
  • Metal Clay and Enameling
  • Tool Making Workshop
• + Level 2 Classes
  • Anticlastic Jewelry
  • Cascade Earrings and Hidden Connections
  • Enameling 3: Exploring Liquid Enamels and Special Effects
  • Gold-Filled Jewelry
  • Jewelry 2
  • Jewelry 3
  • Jewelry 3 & 4 :: 8 week course
  • Jewelry 5 & 6: 8 week course
  • Metal Clay 2: A Touch of Gold
  • Metal Clay 2: Base Metal Clays Copper and Bronze
  • Metal Clay 2: Mokume
  • Setting Stones on Stones
  • Stone Setting 1: Tube, Flush, and Prongs
  • Torches: Safety and Setup for the Studio
• + Online Classes
  • Ancient Egyptian Jewelry (Online)
  • Champleve Enameling (online)
  • Electrolytic Etching- Etching without Acid (online)
  • Enameling 2: Cloisonné (online)
  • Gold-Filled Jewelry (online)
  • Introduction to Filigree with Milt Fischbein
  • 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 - Basics (online)
  • Lost Wax Casting - Figurative Wax Carving (online)
  • Lost Wax Casting - Stone Setting in Wax (online)
  • Metal Clay - Basics and More (online)
  • Metal Clay 2 - Color Your Metal Clay (online)
  • Metal Clay 2: Hinges and Movement (online)
  • Metal Clay 2: Stone Setting- The Bracelet (online)
  • Patinas: Coloring Metal (online)
  • Polish and Finish (online)
  • Reticulation and Keum Boo (online)
  • Stone Setting 1: Tube, Flush and Prong (online)
• + Online Events
  • How to Build a Jewelry Brand From Scratch- a talk with Cielomar
  • Student Peer Group Meeting (online)
• + Open Studios
  • Open Studio
• + 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 Cascade Earrings and Hidden Connections Earrings: Hoops & Posts Enameling 1 Enameling 2: Cloisonné (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 Open Studio Setting Stones on Stones