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Co-Owner + Director

Ned Roche is Co-Owner of Chases Garage Artist Studios & Gallery. He sometimes folds Things out of clay.

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Office + Studio Manager, Ceramics Instructor

Erica Hood graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2014 with a BFA in ceramics. She is a working artist who creates functional ceramics, sculpture, and mixed media installations. She has been teaching ceramics throughout the New England area since graduating from MassArt. Erica currently resides in Attleboro Massachusetts with her husband Owen Roberts.

www.ericalynnhood.com

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Assistant Office Manager, Printmaking Instructor

A New Hampshire native, Michelle Fidelis Blandina is an oil painter and printmaker currently working out of Chases Garage Artist Studios in York, ME. She received her BFA in Illustration from the New Hampshire Institute of Art with a focus in figure painting and monotype printmaking. She utilizes each medium interchangeably allowing them to work together and push boundaries outside of traditional technique. She currently resides in Southern Maine with her husband and son.

www.michelleblandina.com

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Ceramics Instructor

Lindsey graduated from Green Mountain College in 2007 with a BFA in ceramics. She has completed a pottery apprenticeship at Blue Moon Pottery and worked production pottery in NH. Currently Lindsey teaches community ceramics classes and works out of her home studio, Howarth Hill in Berwick Maine, creating wheel thrown functional pottery that focuses on clean lines and classic forms.

www.howarthhillmaine.com

Ceramics Studio Tech + Ceramics Instructor

Shannon Robertson graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2016 with a BFA in studio art, concentrating in Ceramics. She has been working out of Chases Garage since 2017, and creates functional thrown pottery with sculptural elements, as well as outdoor ceramic installations.

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Ceramics Instructor

Sheridan Cudworth graduated from Maine College of Art with a BFA in sculpture in 2011. It wasn't until she relocated to Kittery in 2013 that she found her passion for clay. In 2020 she was a recipient of an endowment through the Maine Crafts Association which funded an apprenticeship with Elaine X Fuller. Sheridan is currently investigating different firing processes that will best complement her forms. When not in the studio, Sheridan enjoys gardening, seeing live music, being outdoors, and creating ways to make art spaces accessible to the local community.

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Printmaking Instructor

Kristy Cavaretta is a Maine Seacoast graphic designer, artist, and mother of three. 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 in 2001. In 2008, after living in Los Angeles for a number of years, she returned home to the East Coast and continued her education with the Graphic Design Certificate Program at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She worked as a graphic designer at Dietz Associates in Kennebunk, Maine from 2013 until she had her first child in 2016 and continues to work as a freelance designer for various seacoast establishments and nonprofits.

www.kristycavaretta.com

Printmaking Instructor

Elise Morissette is an illustrator from southern New Hampshire, working with mixed media with a passion for scientific illustration and naturalist art. Elise has been an art educator around the seacoast for the past 4 years, sharing her love for art and sciences through unique lessons and project based learning. Elise’s current art highlights environmental experiences and reflection of personal growth, using texture and value to engage viewers in a sentimental and personal way. She continues to push her range of art exploring mural arts and scientific communication, supporting and uplifting the local communities along the eastern seacoast.

www.elisejmorissette.com