Classes & Events

• + Beginner Classes
  • Basic Jewelry 1
  • Basic Jewelry 1 & 2 :: 8 week course
  • Intro to Soldering - Stack Rings
• + Online Classes
  • 3D Enameling (online)
  • American Modernist Jewelry (online)
  • Anticlastic Jewelry (online)
  • Brooch Back Mountings (online)
  • Cascade Earrings (online)
  • Cloisonne Cabochon with Aurelie Guillaume (online)
  • Complex Chains with Sarah Loch-Test (online)
  • Contemporary Cloisonné with Ruth Ball (online)
  • Dies Three Ways with Jayne Redman (online)
  • Eastern Chasing and Repoussé with Victoria Lansford (online)
  • Electrolytic Etching- Etching without Acid (online)
  • Enameling 2: Explorations in Color (online)
  • Enameling 4 - Plique-a-jour (online)
  • Enameling: Painterly Effects with Gabrielle Castonguay (online)
  • Fancy Cut Stone Setting (online)
  • Foldforming (online)
  • Forged Fibulas (online)
  • Granular Spray, Sgraffito & Watercolor Enamel with Alisa Looney (online)
  • Hydraulic Press (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 5 - Bracelets, Hinges and Clasps (online)
  • Jewelry 6 - Gold (online)
  • Joyas 1- Conceptos Básicos (en línea, en español)
  • Jurying Yourself with Charles Lewton-Brain (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 2- Chains and Connections (online)
  • Metal Clay 2: Quilling and Origami (online)
  • Metal Clay 2: Sterling Silver Cuff and Split Rings (online)
  • Metal Clay 3: Copper and Bronze with a touch of Silver (online)
  • Northern Nights Ring with Mary Wohlgemuth and Michael Thee (online)
  • Paint and Draw on Metal (online)
  • Piercework Mastery (online)
  • Polish and Finish (online)
  • Reticulation and Keum Boo (online)
  • Rolling Mill (online)
  • So Riveting! (online)
  • Soldering Mastery (online)
  • Stone Setting 1: Tube, Flush and Prong (online)
  • Stone Setting 2: Open Bezels, Free Form Prongs, and Thick Bezels (online)
  • Tool Making (online)
  • Tools and Jigs for Multiples with Jayne Redman (online)
  • Torch Setup and Safety (online)
• + Online Events
  • FREE JewelryTalk: Imagery in Glass and Metal with René Roberts
  • FREE JewelryTalk: Multiples and Making with Jayne Redman
  • FREE JewelryTalk: Yoga for Jewelers with Molly Davis
  • Student Peer Group Meeting (online)
• + Visiting Guest Instructors
  • Designs in Woven Metal with Jeanie Pratt (in person)
  • 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 (online) Enameling 2: Explorations in Color (online) Enameling 4 - Plique-a-jour (online) Foldforming (online) Intro to Soldering - Stack Rings