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Kristy Cavaretta is an artist and mother living on the Southern Maine seacoast. She enjoys exploring the minutiae of domestic life through a variety of media.
Cavaretta holds degrees in Visual & Media Arts from Boston’s Emerson College and Graphic Design from MassArt. In 2012 she moved to the seacoast 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 continued to work as a freelance designer for organizations including the Ogunquit Museum of American Art (2015-2019) and Old York Historical Society (2015-current.) Cavaretta began printmaking in 2014 at Chases Garage in York, Maine. Since having her children she has leaned into block printing, direct object printing, and collagraph printing for their accessibility and speed.
In 2021 Maine Magazine named Cavaretta one of the years’ artists to watch, in 2023 she held her first solo exhibition at the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts. In 2025 she was honored to exhibit at the esteemed Biennial at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art.
Cavaretta teaches printmaking at Chases Garage and is proud to sit on the board of non-profit ArtHope ( 2015-present.) In 2024 Cavaretta was honored to become a juried member of the New Hampshire Art Association and the New England Monotype Guild.
CV:
Kristy Cavaretta Relief: Woodblocks & Their Prints, Solo Exhibition, Portsmouth Music & Arts Center, 4.2026
2025 Biennial, CMCA ( Center for Maine Contemporary Art), 10.2025
Play|Ground, NHAA, Artist Curated exhibition with Ashley Normal, Alicia Ethridge, Meghan Samson, 5.2025
NFS: Not for Sale, UNH ART DEPARTMENT, 8.2024
Biennial: FITCHBURG ART MUSEUM, 6.2024
Dock Level Spotlight, GEORGE MARSHALL STORE GALLERY, 5.2024-9.2024
The Matter of Memory, PORTSMOUTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 4.2024
Biennial, NEW HAMPSHIRE ART ASSOCIATION, 7.2023
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:
The Hand Magazine, 9.2025
Canvas Rebel, 2.2025
The Hand Magazine, 2.2024
Maine Magazine, New Morning, New Day | 2021 Maine Artists, 9. 2021
The Hand Magazine, 11.2020
