HONORS and GRANTS

Jewish Week’s 36 Under 36 – May 2012

Manhattan Community Arts Fund – Recipient of 2011 Grant for Temporary Shelter

Drisha Institute for Jewish Education – Arts Fellow 2008-2010

National Havurah Committee – Artist in Residence for 2008 Summer Institute

Phi Beta Kappa – National Honor Society for Liberal Arts

Tau Beta Pi – National Engineering Honor Society

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Exposure - Ceres Gallery, NYC December 2023

One Nation: With Liberty and Justice For All – Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, NYC Jan – July 2023

Mental Fragments – Pelham Art Center, Pelham NY April – May 2023

Sacred Threads – Floris United Methodist Church, Herndon, VA  July 2022

Together apART: Creating During COVID – ArtsWestchester, White Plains, NY   May – August 2021

Jewish Art and Authenticity – Adas Israel Congregation, Washington, DC  March – May 2021

Signs of the Times  – Ceres Gallery, New York, NY  September – October 2020

Isolation – Emerge Gallery, Online Exhibition August – September 2020

Eshet Hayil – Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, CA  December 2019-December 2020

Art Inspires Action: Politics and Hope – Indivisible Westchester, Larchmont, NY  December 2019

Petit: an exhibition of smaller works – Emerge Gallery, Saugerties, NY  November 2019

Sacred Threads – Floris United Methodist Church, Herndon, VA  July 2019

Mamaroneck Art Stroll – Westchester Handmade, Mamaroneck, NY  July 2019

Celebrate Jewish Women – Repair the World, Brooklyn, NY   March-April 2019

Threadworks – Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY – June – July 2018

Handmade Observance – Koslowe Gallery, Mamaroneck, NY Three-Person Show January – March 2018

Leave Your Swords at the Door – Yonkers Riverfront Library, Yonkers, NY
October 6 – November 24, 2017

Sacred Threads – Floris United Methodist Church, Herndon, VA
July 2017

Parenthood: The Life of a Mother/Artist – Solo Exhibition at the Harrison Public Library, Harrison NY
May 1 – June 1, 2017

Nasty Women Art Exhibition – Knockdown Center, Maspeth, Queens, NY
January 13-15, 2017

Sewing Stories: A Solo Exhibition – Temple Israel, Omaha, NE
September – December 2015

Follow Your Passion by WCA New York – Riverside Library, Community Room, New York, NY
April 27 – September 2, 2014
February 1-28, 2015

FiberArt Celebration – Lazarus Gallery, United Hebrew, New Rochelle, NY
April 27 – September 2, 2014

City Charms & Sewing Stories by Heather Stoltz and Yona Verwer – The Tribeca Synagogue for the Arts, New York, NY
September 1 – December 15, 2013

Violence – SPP Galleries, Conshohocken, PA
April – May 2013

Textile Tefilah – Emanuel Synagogue, West Hartford, CT
January – March 2013

Provocateur: An Exhibition by WCA New York – Riverside Library, New York, NY
February 2013

Temporary Shelter – Church of the Holy Trinity, Church of St. Frances Xavier, Congregation B’nai Jacob, Congregation Kol Ami of Westchester, Congregation Shaare Zedek, Sixth Street Community Synagogue, Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester, Temple Israel Center White Plains
November – December 2011, February 2012, June 2012, Septemper – October 2012

Context: An Exhibition by The Jewish Art Salon and Oholiav – Columbia/Barnard University Kraft Center for Jewish Life, New York, NY
October – November 2012

Distressed: An Exhibition by WCA New York – Boricua College, New York, NY
May – June 2012

Putting Women Back in the Picture – JOFA’s Celebratory Event, New York, NY
November 2011

Sanctuaries In Time – Columbia/Barnard University Kraft Center for Jewish Life, New York, NY January – March 2011

Text and Texture: Midrash Through Making – Park Avenue Synagogue, New York, NY
November 2010 – January 2011

A Letter Unread: Drisha Arts Fellows Present a Year of Learning – Drisha Institute for Jewish Education, NY   May 2010

Arts Illuminating Texts: Drisha Arts Fellows – Drisha Institute for Jewish Education, NY
June 2009

SAQA Traveling Exhibits – various galleries, NY    2008 – 2009

Women Made Gallery – Chicago, IL    May – June 2008

International Quilt Festival – Houston, TX    November 2007

Lowell Quilt Festival – Lowell, MA     August 2007

Sacred Threads – Reynoldsburg, OH     June 2007

Surprised by God: Exploring New Approaches to Prayer – New York, NY
Launch event for the Zeek/Hadar issue (Spring/Summer 2007)    May 2007

International Quilt Festival – Chicago, IL     April 2007

JOFA’s 10th Anniversary International Conference on Feminism & Orthodoxy – NY, NY
February 2007

International Quilt Festival – Houston, TX     November 2006

CURATORIAL WORK

Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School 
Curated art exhibit for annual tribute dinner honoring Rabbi Avi and Toby Weiss
March 2014

PUBLICATIONS

Cross Currents
Volume 71, No. 1 (Spring 2021), p. 72-81 “The Art of Fixing Broken Worlds”

Painted Pomegranates and Needlepoint Rabbis
Jodi Eichler-Levine, October 2020, p. 35-36, 38-39, 49, 96-97, 145-147

Kveller.com
April 2018  Hanging by a Thread

Quilts and Human Rights
Marsha MacDowell, Mary Worrall, Lynne Swanson, and Beth Donaldson, August 2016
Foreword by Desmond Tutu

Kolot: Voices of Conservative/Masorti Judaism,
Fall 2012
“Temporary Shelter: One Sukkah’s Stories of Homelessness”, p. 19-20

Urban Confustions
Summer Issue 2012
Heather, Joe, John p. 58

Temporary Shelter: An Art Installation about Homeless New Yorkers
Heather G. Stoltz, 2011

Jewish Threads: A Hand’s-On Guide to Stitching Spiritual Intention into Jewish Fabric Crafts 
Diana Drew with Robert Grayson, October 2011
“Heather’s High Holiday Inspiration” p. 104-111

SAQA Journal
Volume  21, No. 1 (Winter 2011), p. 20-21
“Envisioning the Road to Success”

Barchu: A Podium for the Renewal of Prayer in Israel
Professor Rabbi Yehoyada Amir, Mike Nitzan and Naama Daphni-Kellen, editors.
Summer 2010, p. 29
The Whole World is a Narrow Bridge

The Trees and Davvening with Beth Am: A Tu B’Shevat Haggadah
Barak Gale, January 2010, p. 2
Baruch She’Amar: Turning Speech into Action

V’Shinantam L’vanecha: Teach Them Faithfully to Your Children
Leo Baech Day School, 2009, p. 30-31
Miriam

SAQA Journal
Volume 19, No. 2 (Spring 2009), p. 30-31
“My Experience at the Summer Institute”

Practical Matters
Volume 1, Issue 1 (January 2009), p. 1-13
“Re-Imagining Eve”

Zeek Magazine: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture
Spring/Summer 2007, p. 42
The Whole World is a Narrow Bridge

JOFA’s 10th Anniversary International Conference on Feminism & Orthodoxy
New York, NY
Tishrei 5766 (October 2005) used for invitations and programs

Creative Quilting: The Journal Quilt Project
Karey Patterson Bresenhan, editor.  October 2006, p. 259
Tevet 5766 (January 2006)

EDUCATION

Drisha Institute for Jewish Education, New York, NY 2008–2010
Arts Fellow

Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY 2002–2004
Master of Arts in Jewish Women’s Studies – With Distinction

Lafayette College, Easton, PA August 1996 – May 2000
Dual Degree: Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering – Magna Cum Laude
Bachelor of Arts in Jewish Studies – Magna Cum Laude