AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING DURING OPEN HOURS THIS DECEMBER. OPENING DAY TBD.

Ricki Carroll, 74 years young, grew up in Englewood NJ, went to The Boston Museum School and Tufts Univ., taught art for grades K-6 and moved to Ashfield in 1975. Carroll started the New England Cheese Making Supply Company in 1978, gaining the status of “The Cheese Queen” in the process.

Carroll has worn the hats of, mother, grandmother, entrepreneur, artist, gardener, Ashfield Park Commissioner, event planner, volunteer at Abbie’s School in Culebra, PR. She has clowned in and decorated hospital rooms, created art and played with her own cancer, carved hearts on the outsides of her house, hosted Village Harmony musical summer camps, hosted many house concerts and written two books on cheese making.

Carroll has been snorkeling in the waters off the island of Culebra for 45 years amidst the varieties of living coral. Over the years she has witnessed the death of the reefs, broken and bleached corals and a decline in the number of fish and turtles from her earlier days there.

During COVID she learned about the ‘Crochet Coral Reef’ project begun by Christine and Margaret Wertheim for the Institute for Figuring, a project responding to Climate Change and the global community based on applied mathematics and evolutionary theory bringing people together from all over the world, and taught herself how to crochet.

Carroll invites her audience to look and think about what is happening in our world’s oceans and consider some of the actions being made to try to save them.

An artist reception will be held during December; date/time TBD.