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Aimee Golant is a sixth generation
Metalsmith, currently based in San Francisco, California.
She began studying jewelry fabrication and silversmithing
at California State University, San Francisco in
1992. Upon her graduation in 1996, she began her
career as an independent metal artist making Judaica
and jewelry. She traveled to juried shows in New
York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, selling her unique
metal art nationally.
The Jewish Museum of New York acquiring one of Aimee’s
evocative mezuzahs for its permanent collection.
Her Barbed Wire Mezuzah traveled into outer space
on the Columbia Space Shuttle. She won the esteemed
NICHE Award for her Bars and Windows Menorah and
received the Golden Hammer Award for her outstanding
community service through the San Francisco Bay
Area Metal Arts Guild. Most recently she has been
awarded the commission to create the crown for the
Women’s Torah Project, which is the very first
certified Torah ever scribed by women.
Her teaching experience includes pioneering the
metal art program at the San Francisco Waldorf High
School, teaching adults and inner city youth beginning
silversmithing and jewelry fabrication as vocational
skills at The Crucible in Oakland, as well as teaching
beginning and intermediate jewelry making at Scintillant
Studio in San Francisco. She also sees several private
metal art students in her studio. She was a guest
teacher in the metals department at Woodside Priory
in Portola Valley and in general studies at the
Hebrew Academy in San Francisco. She has taught
copper bracelet making with children ranging in
age for 4 to 12 through the National Japanese-American
Historical Society in San Francisco. For more information
about Aimee’s art please visit her website
at http://www.aimeegolant.com.
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