Marilyn da Silva

Marilyn da Silva (née Grrevank; born 1952) is an American sculptor, metalsmith, jeweler, and educator. She teaches and serves as a department head at the California College of the Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area. Da Silva has won numerous awards including honorary fellow by the American Craft Council.

Early life and education Marilyn da Silva was born in 1952 in Akron, Ohio. She is married to jeweler and silversmith , Her sculptures often feature imagery of objects such as birds, rabbits, books, and houses.

Da Silva is a professor and the department head of the jewelry and metal arts program at California College of the Arts, since 1987. She previously taught at Bowling Green State University from 1978 to 1987;

Da Silva is an Honorary Fellow of the American Craft Council since 2007; she was awarded Master Metalsmith by the National Ornamental Metal Museum in 1999; and she was awarded the Master of the Medium award from the James Renwick Alliance in 2017.

Her work can be found in the museum collections at the Arkansas Arts Center (also known as the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts), the National Ornamental Metal Museum, the Oakland Museum of California, and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul.