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About Galia
Galia Goodman was born in Denver, Colorado in 1950. She did all the things women were supposed to do for the first twenty-six years of her life (college, grad school, marriage, career) and then decided to throw it all away for a hand to mouth existence as an artist. It was the best decision she ever made.
Ms. Goodman specializes in Hebrew and English calligraphy, paper-cutting, and collage. She has studied with several internationally known calligraphers over years, including Izzy Pludwinski of Jerusalem, Peter Thornton of England, and Sheila Waters and Thomas Ingmire of the United States. Her paper arts skills are mostly self-taught. She has most recently been studying acrylic painting.
Her work includes ketubot (Jewish wedding documents) and commissioned pieces which hang in homes, synagogues, libraries, and universities in the US, Israel, and several other countries. Her ketubot have appeared in several exhibitions here and abroad: in 2000, a piece went to Japan with the Durham Art Guild's Sister Cities Exhibition in Toyama, and two more were exhibited in New York and Cincinnati's Living Traditions 2000 exhibition at Hebrew Union College. Several pieces based on women's history reside at the Women's Center at Duke University, and The Rare Books Collection at Duke has acquired calligraphic work.
Inspiration for Ms. Goodman's work comes from many sources. The inspiration for her Judaic work comes from both traditional and modern Jewish texts. She also uses quotes from writers, scientists, social critics, and world leaders. Her landscapes and seascapes are inspired by her own photography and travel to Israel, Europe, and all over the United States.
While much of her work is done on commission, Ms. Goodman maintains strong commitment to accessibility in art by providing a wide variety of affordable art to an ever widening audience. She is a member of Womancraft, an arts and crafts gallery in Chapel Hill, and a member of the Durham County Art Guild, the Triangle Calligraphy Guild, the Carolina Lettering Arts Society, and the American Guild of Jewish Artists. She lives and works in Durham, North Carolina, with her life partner, Meredith, and she remains passionate about her garden, belly dancing, her god-children, chocolate, and her hope for eventual world peace.