Kerry Kincy

Kerry Kincy

Kerry Kincy is an artist, collaborating with private, state and non profit organizations throughout CT, teaching her expressive arts residency, Telling Voices, to children and adults in under-served and often invisible populations in the community, schools and in residential treatment facilities. Kerry is a core faculty member with the Shared Abilities Dance Ensemble, where dancers with and without physical disabilities work in partnership to create performances. Kerry produces Artists for World Peace’s annual Dance for Peace, which began in 2013 as a way of featuring diverse professional and cultural dancers and dance companies to perform with the International Peace Belt, which has been worn by artists all over the world. Her work with the Judy Dworin Performance Project, Inc., Moving Matters! afforded her the opportunity to teach in Dreamings, What I Want to Say, and What I Want to Tell You, the Mom’s and Kid’s Project, at York Women’s Prison that focused on issues pertaining to the women behind the razor wire. She performed in the professional version of Dreaming that was presented to the public at the Charter Oak Cultural Center. Kerry is a proud mother of two daughters, Zoë and Frankie Blù. She graduated from Trinity College with a self-designed degree in Learning, Movement, and Social Development. She continued to build her craft studying Expressive and Creative Art Therapies at Salve Regina, The New School and Movement Therapy at Antioch University. She completed her Masters in Community Psychology at the University of New Haven.

Carrot Top’s Sweet Treats: Tastes Like Home

Yolanda Hart, owner of Carrot Top’s Sweet Potato Treat, and I grew up in the same town and shared many of the same larger circles of community—a sort of “my people know your people” epiphany. And yet, I’m not sure we had ever had a real conversation outside of me ordering one of her sweet potato Bundt cakes just shy of a year ago.

Capital Ice Cream: Sweet Dreams Are Made of These

Yes, it’s Capital with an “a” and no, it’s not a spelling error (for all our "Grammarly grammars" out there…LOL). Even though Capital Ice Cream is located on Capitol Avenue and is just two blocks from the state Capitol Building, the owners envisioned opening a place that was reflective of the beauty, positivity and diversity of the people of the capital of Connecticut—Hartford.