Kristy Cavaretta is an artist, designer, and mother of three living on the Southern Maine seacoast. She enjoys exploring the minutiae of domestic life through a variety of media.
Cavaretta earned her undergraduate degree in Visual and Media Arts from Boston’s Emerson College and a Graphic Design Certificate from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. In 2012 she moved to the seacoast with her husband after a decade of working in the film industry in Los Angeles. She worked as a graphic designer until she had her first child in 2016 and continues to work as a freelance designer for numerous nonprofit organizations, including the Ogunquit Museum of American Art and Old York Historical Society. Cavaretta began learning printmaking in 2014 at Chases Garage in York, Maine in various workshop settings. Since having her children she has leaned into block printing, direct object printing, and collagraph printing for their accessibility and speed. Either the ability to make a block in a single nap time sitting or chipping away at a larger work little by little over a long period of time. She began teaching woodcut printmaking at Chases Garage in 2022.
CV:
Milk & Cookies, Solo Exhibition, ROCHESTER MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, ROCHESTER, NH 5.2023
New Bodies, KATZMAN CONTEMPORARY PROJECTS, DOVER, NH 5.2023
Raw Emotion, GALLERY TEMPO, BOSTON, MA 5.2023
All Together Now, SEE/SAW GALLERY, Manchester, NH, 2.2023
Nor’Easterly II, KATZMAN CONTEMPORARY PROJECTS, DOVER, NH 10.2021
Ebb & Flow, GEORGE MARSHALL STORE GALLERY, YORK, ME, 5.2022
Printmaking 2022, THE ART CENTER, DOVER, NH 1.2022
Nor’Easterly, KATZMAN CONTEMPORARY PROJECTS, DOVER, NH 10.2021
Painting at Night, presented by Artist/Mother Podcast with Artlink, ARTLINK, FORT WYANE, IN, 10.2021
And Now, GEORGE MARSHALL STORE GALLERY, YORK, ME, 9.2021
Printmaking at the Edge, THE ART CENTER, DOVER, NH, 1.2021
Big Ink Exhibition THE HUDGENS CENTER for the ARTS, DULUTH, GA 8.2020
Everything is Different Now STAY HOME GALLERY, PARIS, TN, 7.2020
ARToberWest, PMAC, PORTSMOUTH, NH, 10.2019
Of Printbearing Age, SECOND STATE PRESS, PHILADELPHIA, PA , 10.2019
Ransom:Exploring the Edges of Appropriation, CHASES GARAGE YORK, ME, 10.2018
100 Domestic Doodles, BACKYARD, OGUNQUIT, ME 8.2017
Big Ink, 3S GALLERY, PORTSMOUTH, NH, 6.2017
Inside Out, CHASES GARAGE, YORK, ME, 9.2015
PUBLICATIONS:
Maine Magazine, New Morning, New Day | 2021 Maine Artists, 9. 2021
Milked Magazine, Issue 3, Featured Artist including cover image, 6.2021
Forrest Elliot Artist Interview, 4.2021
The Hand Magazine, 11.2020