About
Rae Heller (b. NYC, no pronouns) is an artist primarily creating large scale quilts. Rae graduated from Simmons College with a BA in Arts Administration and Art. Rae’s quilts queers the line between art and craft. Rae’s textile work uplifts sustainability as a generative practice, focusing on using repurposed fabric, as well as scrap by-products of the artmaking process to create. The durable softness of quilts celebrate the dualities of daily living. A two-time alum of Vermont Studio Center, Rae has won numerous quilting awards.
Rae lives and creates on the unceded land of the Abenaki people, Wantastegok, otherwise known as Southern VT, and teaches quilting as an artform at Marlboro Studio School and Looky Here in Greenfield, Mass.