Alan Revere innovative jewelry

Alan Revere innovative jewelry
Born in 1947, Alan Revere grew up in a family of artists and designers. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1969 where he studied psychology, languages and art. Deciding to connect his life with art, Alan entered the University of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he studied art, sculpture and crafts. It was there, on his first day at the jewelry workshop, that he made a piece of jewelry and discovered his true calling.
After graduating from the University in 1972, he went to the jewelry capital of Germany, the city of Pforzheim. Simultaneously with the study of jewelry, Alan Revere worked as a fashion designer and jeweler. Alan returned to the US two years later, settling in Oakland, California, where he worked as a jeweler and taught at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland.
In 1979, Revere opened his studio in San Francisco and founded the Jewellery Academy. The same year, Alan exhibited his jewelry for the first time at the ACC Craft Fair in San Francisco. For the next 15 years, he made jewelry in his workshop and sold it in hundreds of jewelry stores and galleries across the country. Alan has received a number of international awards for his innovative jewelry, which is highly collectible.

Alan Revere innovative jewelry

Having received a varied and unique background, Alan Revere has authored dozens of books and articles on jewelry, which he has been publishing since the early 1980s.
In the early 1980s, Revere’s pioneering approach to refractory metals, in particular niobium, made him a successful jeweller. He pioneered niobium in its natural steel gray color and also used the more familiar hues of the rainbow in several well thought out designs. He was also one of the first and one of the few to show work in 14 carat gold at a time when most jewelers only worked with silver, and other metals.