RAE 
HELLER


  1. i miss when it was good
  2. YOU STILL CAN
  3. on (dis)connection
  4. on grief
  5. on gender
  6. baby quilts
  7. wearable art
  8. quilt piecing
  9. hardedge, softedge
  10. XO Deo


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About
Rae Heller (b. NYC, no pronouns) is a chatty and chalant, genderqueer, anti-zionist Jewish, New Jersey raised artist primarily working in 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. An alum of Vermont Studio Center (2025, 2026), Wassaic Project (2026) and Mudhouse (2026) residencies, and a Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant recipient, Rae has won numerous quilting awards. 


Rae lives and creates on the unceded land of the Abenaki people, Wantastegok, otherwise known as Brattleboro VT, and teaches quilting as an artform. When not in the studio, you can find Rae gardening, powerlifting, writing about Rae’s (he)art to the internet, drinking half and half, all while talking loudly to friends. Read more here: @raehellerstudio + RaeHellerStudio.substack.com  
Photographed by Jeff Barnett-Windsby.