about

Jerry Titus began his initiation into old-style Navajo silversmithing when he was fourteen. Studying under Diné master silversmith Ben Yazzie, he learned that excellence came through repetition and perfection, not through whimsy. He learned lapidary — stone cutting and shaping, he learned metallurgy, he learned design. Perhaps most importantly, he learned to listen: what did each piece want to be and how could he be in service to that.

A true artist, he continues in this tradition today: hammering and stamping on old logs in the studio, turning metal scrap into studio tools, and assessing how each part of each piece can be crafted by hand, not machine. He is inspired by all of the places and all the of life he has lived: each beautiful peak, river, fish, wave. Beyond the big sky of Montana, beyond the wild stretches of silence and piñon in New Mexico, beyond the slip of alpine rainbow trout in the Sierras, his inspiration comes most deeply from his children.