[2] After trying out various other crafts, including bookbinding and weaving, and teaching art and literature at private high schools,[2] Golann began practicing woodworking a few months before her 30th birthday.
[5][6] While studying at Penland School of Craft in North Carolina, she invented an enameling technique to create multi-colored patterns for the glass doors of a bookcase and clock.
[7] In 2020, Golann founded The Chairmaker's Toolbox, a project intended to increase educational equity and opportunity in the field of Green woodworking and Windsor chair making.
Trained as a 17th-19th century woodworker, Aspen engages the moral complexity of reproduction furniture by appropriating the aesthetics and antiquarian processes of early America to illustrate racial, gender and social injustice endemic to the time.
In January 2022, Golann was the artist in residence at the San Diego State University School of Art and Design[29] and in 2022 completed a Critical Craft Fellowship[30] at Winterthur Museum exploring the physical and social history of the Windsor chair.