Quilting — Next Steps in Your Practice
March 9 — April 27, 2025*
Instructor: Rae Heller
Class meetings:
Sundays from 12:00 - 2:00 pm
3/9, 3/16, 3/23, 4/6, 4/13, 4/27
*There will be no class sessions on 3/30 and 4/20, but students will have access to the studio on those dates.
Through this foundational quilting course, we will learn how to draw in inspiration, notice our artistic preferences, and build a creative practice. This class is not project based. Once you learn the quilting basics, you will decide what quilted piece or project needs to be created next and we will dive deeper into whatever techniques will help push your project forward.
Although basic sewing machine skills are quite useful, if you have never sewn, this is also a class for you! If you have taken Rae’s previous class this is an opportunity for you to deepen your quilting practice, use the studio space, and make your next quilt! Come learn basic quilting techniques and deepen your artistic practice.
We will create using both hand-sewing techniques and using sewing machines. Sewing machines will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring their own.
This class is open to students ages 16+
Skill Level: 1-5, though some quilting and sewing machine experience is helpful.
Limited scholarship funding may be available for this class. To apply for financial aid, please fill out our Scholarship Application.
Click here to view our Terms & Conditions.
Skill levels: 1 - Beginner; 2 - Beginner/Intermediate; 3 - Intermediate; 4 - Intermediate/Advanced; 5 - Advanced
March 9 — April 27, 2025*
Instructor: Rae Heller
Class meetings:
Sundays from 12:00 - 2:00 pm
3/9, 3/16, 3/23, 4/6, 4/13, 4/27
*There will be no class sessions on 3/30 and 4/20, but students will have access to the studio on those dates.
Through this foundational quilting course, we will learn how to draw in inspiration, notice our artistic preferences, and build a creative practice. This class is not project based. Once you learn the quilting basics, you will decide what quilted piece or project needs to be created next and we will dive deeper into whatever techniques will help push your project forward.
Although basic sewing machine skills are quite useful, if you have never sewn, this is also a class for you! If you have taken Rae’s previous class this is an opportunity for you to deepen your quilting practice, use the studio space, and make your next quilt! Come learn basic quilting techniques and deepen your artistic practice.
We will create using both hand-sewing techniques and using sewing machines. Sewing machines will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring their own.
This class is open to students ages 16+
Skill Level: 1-5, though some quilting and sewing machine experience is helpful.
Limited scholarship funding may be available for this class. To apply for financial aid, please fill out our Scholarship Application.
Click here to view our Terms & Conditions.
Skill levels: 1 - Beginner; 2 - Beginner/Intermediate; 3 - Intermediate; 4 - Intermediate/Advanced; 5 - Advanced
March 9 — April 27, 2025*
Instructor: Rae Heller
Class meetings:
Sundays from 12:00 - 2:00 pm
3/9, 3/16, 3/23, 4/6, 4/13, 4/27
*There will be no class sessions on 3/30 and 4/20, but students will have access to the studio on those dates.
Through this foundational quilting course, we will learn how to draw in inspiration, notice our artistic preferences, and build a creative practice. This class is not project based. Once you learn the quilting basics, you will decide what quilted piece or project needs to be created next and we will dive deeper into whatever techniques will help push your project forward.
Although basic sewing machine skills are quite useful, if you have never sewn, this is also a class for you! If you have taken Rae’s previous class this is an opportunity for you to deepen your quilting practice, use the studio space, and make your next quilt! Come learn basic quilting techniques and deepen your artistic practice.
We will create using both hand-sewing techniques and using sewing machines. Sewing machines will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring their own.
This class is open to students ages 16+
Skill Level: 1-5, though some quilting and sewing machine experience is helpful.
Limited scholarship funding may be available for this class. To apply for financial aid, please fill out our Scholarship Application.
Click here to view our Terms & Conditions.
Skill levels: 1 - Beginner; 2 - Beginner/Intermediate; 3 - Intermediate; 4 - Intermediate/Advanced; 5 - Advanced
Instructor: Rae Heller
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.