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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 earned a BFA in ceramics from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2014. As a ceramicist with 15 years of experience, she specializes in functional and sculptural pieces that often incorporate mixed media and printmaking techniques. She has been teaching ceramics in New England for the past ten years. Previously, she has taught at MassArt, Haystack Open Door, Umbrella Arts Center, and The Clay School. She is currently the studio and office manager at Chases Garage Artist Studios in York, Maine, where she also teaches ceramics. Erica lives in Attleboro, Massachusetts, with her husband, Owen Roberts, a fellow MassArt alum.

www.ericalynnhood.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.

@slrceramics

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Ceramics Instructor

Ceramicist Lindsey Howarth, hailing from South Jersey, completed her BFA focus on ceramics, in 2007 from Green Mountain College in Vermont. During this time, she apprenticed at Blue Moon Pottery in Greenwich, NY, and worked with other potters along the Saratoga-Albany Pottery trail. Following a term in the AmeriCorps and teaching children’s clay classes, she moved to Berwick, Maine in 2010 to work in production pottery at Salmon Falls Stoneware. In 2019, her husband completed her home studio, facilitating further exploration of clay and developing her current body of work. Currently, Lindsey teaches at Chases Garage in York, Maine, and shows her work regionally in galleries and at shows.

www.howarthhillmaine.com

Jameson Burke is a New England artist who has been creating ceramic ware since 2005. In early years of school he had fell in love with the possibilities of clay. After high school, he then went to pursue a bachelors of fine arts degree in ceramics at The New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, NH. There he was able to expand his ceramic knowledge also having a great opportunity to study in Japan.

www.jamesonburkeceramics.com

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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

Stephanie earned her BFA in Ceramics from Plymouth State University in 2005 and began her journey in clay as an apprentice with a potter in New Hampshire. She then moved to Florida for an artist residency at a truly unique gallery, where her early work focused on personal exploration and alternative firing techniques.

For the past eight years, Stephanie worked as a production potter in NH, where she learned to repair electric kilns, explored glaze chemistry, and developed new lines of work. While the experience was invaluable in strengthening her skills, she is now excited to return to a more creative, inclusive and community-oriented clay space—one that allows her to reconnect with her personal voice and shape the next chapter of her clay journey.