About
Rae Heller (b. NYC 1988) is a visual artist primarily working in large scale quilts. Rae graduated from Simmons College with a BA in Arts Administration and Art. Rae’s work focuses on pattern, play, and process and beginning in 2021, turned toward textiles. Rae hopes to create work with sustainability in mind; using repurposed fabric, all scrap fabrics, by-products of the art making process become new ways to create. After the unresolved death of a friend in 2022, Rae's art process aims to hold the immense pain and paradoxical aliveness of grief. Celebrating and struggling with duality is held in the durable softness of quilts.
Rae has pieces in private collections across the US and in Europe, and has been an artist-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center (2024).
When not making art, Rae works as an American Sign Language Interpreter, makes all natural deodorant, plays canasta and other team sports, and gardens. Rae lives and creates on the unceded land of the Abenaki people, Wantastegok, or Brattleboro, VT with Rae's partner Steve and tripod dog named Bagel.
You can find Rae's quilted wares at The Joinery in Shelbourne Falls, MA.