Kristy (Thomley) 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 in 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–present). 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 year’s 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 the nonprofit 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.