Classes & Events

• + Beginner Classes
  • Basic Jewelry 1
  • Basic Jewelry 1 & 2 :: 8 week course
  • Color and Patina
  • Earrings: Hoops & Posts
  • Electroforming
  • Electrolytic Etching - Etch without Acid
  • Enameling 1
  • Forged Fibulas
  • Intro to Soldering - Earrings
  • Intro to Soldering - Stack Rings
  • Lost Wax Casting 1
  • Lost Wax Casting 1 :: 8 week course
  • Metal Clay 1: Charm Bracelet
  • Metal Clay 1: The Basics
  • Metal Clay 1: The Basics - A Day of Earrings
  • Metal Clay and Enameling
  • Tool Making Workshop
• + Level 2 Classes
  • Anticlastic Jewelry
  • Bangles and Cuffs
  • Cascade Earrings and Hidden Connections
  • Enameling 3: Exploring Liquid Enamels and Special Effects
  • Fast Finish: Polishing With Power Tools
  • Gold-Filled Jewelry
  • Jewelry 2
  • Jewelry 3
  • Jewelry 3 & 4 :: 8 week course
  • Jewelry 5 & 6: 8 week course
  • Jewelry 6: Gold
  • Lost Wax 2: Molds & Found Objects
  • Metal Clay 2: A Touch of Gold
  • Metal Clay 2: Base Metal Clays Copper and Bronze
  • Metal Clay 2: Metal Clay Paper - Quilling, Origami and More
  • Metal Clay 2: Mokume
  • Production Jewelry 1: Design
  • Production Jewelry 2: Business and Marketing
  • Reticulation and Keum Boo
  • Setting Stones on Stones
  • Stone Setting 1: Tube, Flush, and Prongs
  • Stone Setting 3: Bead Setting and Pavé
  • Torches: Safety and Setup for the Studio
• + Online Classes
  • Ancient Egyptian Jewelry (Online)
  • Art Nouveau Jewelry (online)
  • Jewelry 1 - the Basics (online)
  • Jewelry 2 - Chain and Prong Setting (online)
  • Lost Wax Casting - Stone Setting in Wax (online)
  • Lost Wax Casting - The Basics (online)
  • Start your Jewelry Business 1: Design a Line (Online)
  • Start your Jewelry Business 2: Business and Marketing (Online)
• + Open House & Events
  • Student Peer Group Meeting
• + Open Studios
  • Open Studio
• + Summer Jewelry Intensives
  • Lost Wax Casting Intensive
• + Visiting Guest Instructors
  • Counter Sketching and Color Rendering with Rémy Rotenier
  • Designs in Woven Metal with Jeanie Pratt
  • Enameling with Ginbari Foil with Gabrielle Castonguay
  • Enameling: Painterly Effects with Gabrielle Castonguay
  • Engraving with Hratch Nargizian - 4 days
  • Engraving with Hratch Nargizian - 5 days
  • Fusing, Fabricating & Granulating in Argentium with Ronda Coryell
  • 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: Bangles and Cuffs Basic Jewelry 1 Basic Jewelry 1 & 2 :: 8 week course Cascade Earrings and Hidden Connections Earrings: Hoops & Posts Enameling 1 Enameling 3: Exploring Liquid Enamels and Special Effects Gold-Filled Jewelry Intro to Soldering - Earrings Intro to Soldering - Stack Rings Metal Clay and Enameling Open Studio Setting Stones on Stones