Aimee Golant is a sixth generation Metalsmith, currently based in San Francisco, California. Upon her graduation from San Francisco State University in 1996 with a major in Sociology and a minor in Metal, she began her career as an independent metal artist creating Judaica and Jewelry. She has traveled to juried shows in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore and sells her unique metal art nationally.
The honors Aimee has earned include: the Jewish Museum of New York's acquisition of one of her evocative mezuzahs for its permanent collection, her Barbed Wire Mezuzah traveling into space on the Columbia Space Shuttle, winning a NICHE Award for her Bars and Windows Menorah, and receiving 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.
As a teacher, Aimee pioneered the Metal Art program at the San Francisco Waldorf High School. She also teaches adults and inner city youth beginning silversmithing and jewelry fabrication as vocational skills at the Crucible in Oakland and teaches beginning and intermediate jewelry making at Scintillant Studio in San Francisco. She also has several students whom she teaches metal art to privately in her studio. She has been 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 also taught copper bracelet making to children ages 4 to 12 through the National Japanese-American Historical Society in San Francisco.
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