Collection: Stanley Parker

Stanley Parker was born in 1952 and raised on the Navajo reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico. After graduating from a local high school, he took a job making circuit boards at an electronics factory, where he acquired specialized soldering skills. He later changed careers to become a silversmith.

He is committed to traditional Navajo jewelry making, an artist who pursues the “Navajo classic” in every respect, in both design and technique. For stonework, too, he mainly uses American turquoise, and makes all of his cabochons (stones polished into a rounded shape) by hand, from rough stone through cutting, polishing and finishing, for use in his own work.