Meet Our Team
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Ned Roche
he/him
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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Erica Hood
she/her
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
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Shannon Robertson
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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Lindsey Howarth
she/her
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
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Sheridan Cudworth
she/her
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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Kristy Cavaretta
she/her
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