Classes & Events

• + Beginner Classes
  • Basic Jewelry 1
  • Basic Jewelry 1 & 2 :: 8 week course
  • Enameling 1
  • Forged Fibulas
  • Intro to Soldering - Stack Rings
• + Level 2 Classes
  • Anticlastic Jewelry
  • Gold-Filled Jewelry
  • Metal Clay 2: Base Metal Clays Copper and Bronze
  • Metal Clay 2: Mokume
  • Torches: Safety and Setup for the Studio
• + Online Classes
  • Alternative Settings for Enamels and Other Objects (online)
  • Ancient Egyptian Jewelry (Online)
  • Argentium Ring (online)
  • Brooch Back Mountings (online)
  • Cascade Earrings (online)
  • Chain, Chain, Chain (online)
  • Counter Sketching and Color Rendering with Rémy Rotenier (online)
  • Crown Settings (online)
  • Custom Clasps with Alison Antelman (online)
  • Earrings: Hoops and Posts (online)
  • Enameling 1 (online)
  • Enameling with Ginbari Foil with Gabrielle Castonguay (online)
  • Fancy Cut Stone Setting (online)
  • Filigree 1 - Introduction to Filigree with Milt Fischbein (online)
  • Filigree 3 - Filigree Rings (online)
  • Hydraulic Press (online)
  • Intro to Soldering (online)
  • 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 5 - Bracelets, Hinges and Clasps (online)
  • Jewelry 6 - Gold (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 1 - The Basics- Earrings (online)
  • Metal Clay 2 - Setting Cabochons After Firing (online)
  • Metal Clay 2- Chains and Connections (online)
  • Mexican Silver (online)
  • Patinas: Coloring Metal (online)
  • Pattern Forming and Dimensional Enameling with Nash Quinn (online)
  • Piercework Mastery (online)
  • Polish and Finish (online)
  • Reticulation and Keum Boo (online)
  • Rolling Mill (online)
  • Setting Stones on Stones (online)
  • Starting Your Jewelry Business: Pricing, Brand, and Marketing (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: Files, Files, Files!
  • FREE JewelryTalk: Metal Clay- From Fad to Mainstream
  • FREE JewelryTalk: The Ancient Art of Filigree
  • Student Peer Group Meeting (online)
• + 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: Alternative Settings for Enamels and Other Objects (online) Basic Jewelry 1 Basic Jewelry 1 & 2 :: 8 week course Cascade Earrings (online) Earrings: Hoops and Posts (online) Enameling 1 Enameling 1 (online) Gold-Filled Jewelry Intro to Soldering - Stack Rings Setting Stones on Stones (online)