Stoltz, Heather

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Heather G. Stoltz is a fiber artist whose quilted wall hangings and fabric sculptures are inspired by social justice issues and Jewish texts.

Stoltz, named as one of The Jewish Week’s “36 Under 36″ for 2012, received a 2011 Manhattan Community Art Funds grant for Temporary Shelter, her installation piece about homeless New Yorkers.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and featured in Jewish Threads, Creative Quilting: The Journal Quilt Project, Shma Koleinu: A Jewish People’s Commentary on the Siddur, and several other publications.

She was a Drisha Arts Fellow 2008­‐2010 and was an Artist‐in-­Residence at the 2008 National Havurah Committee Summer Institute.

Heather lives in White Plains, NY with her husband Rabbi Geoffrey Mitelman and their daughter Caroline.

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