L.E. Kincaid

Lindsey E. Kincaid (L.E.) grew up in Radford, Virginia. Kincaid received a B.A. in studio art with a focus in ceramics and a minor in business and visual communication from Emory & Henry in 2009. After graduation, she moved to Damascus, Virginia where she focused on oil paintings as her creative outlet. In 2012 Kincaid was hired at the 1912 Gallery as the Arts Assistant. She quickly found she enjoyed the "behind the scenes" aspects of exhibitions and the running of a gallery. In 2013 Kincaid spent the summer at a ceramic residency at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, Maine, where she worked with up-and-coming as well as nationally known ceramic artists like Patti Warashina and Carol Gouthro. Upon her return to Virginia, Kincaid transitioned into an Interim Curator position and played a significant role in the transition of the 1912 Gallery's programming and permanent collection to a new state-of-the-art exhibition space in the Woodrow W. McGlothlin Center for the Arts (MCA). In 2015 Kincaid passed off the mantle of Interim Curator and became the Arts and Marketing Coordinator of the McGlothlin Center for the Arts. In early 2018 Kincaid was offered an apprenticeship to become a goldsmith at Simply Unique in Yorktown Virginia. Training under international award-winning Goldsmith Alex Maryaskin, Kincaid created one-of-a-kind jewelry. In Fall 2019, at the end of the apprenticeship, Kincaid was hired at the Charles H. Taylor Visual Art Center as the Assistant Visual Arts Manager, where she only had a few months to get to know the community before COVID hit. Durning COVID Kincaid wrote and presented Creative Challenges to Hampton Arts members to keep them creating through the Pandemic. In Fall 2021, Kincaid left the Charles Taylor to become a full-time ceramic artist.