Teresa Foshee named Artist of the Month
From Special Reports
The Newnan-Coweta Art Association (NCAA) chose Teresa Foshee as the featured “Artist of the Month” for January. Ms. Foshee’s art will be featured in the entry way of Newnan City Hall until January 31.
Ms. Foshee has always been an artist at heart, but life took her in other directions for a long time. She is finally doing what she has always wanted to do – explore, create, and design. Foshee is a photographer, potter, and sculptor. She grew up in Illinois, near St. Louis. She
always loved to draw and as a child she remembers spending hours drawing animals from pictures in her parents’ encyclopedias.
She took some art classes in high school and then attended Harding University (Searcy, AR). Leaving her studies at the University behind, Foshee attended Sawyer Business College (St. Louis) to become an Executive Secretary. Upon graduation, she worked as an Administrative Assistant for many years. In 2013 she went back to college to finish the art degree she started so long ago. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.A. in Art & Design from LaGrange College in May 2016 (Double Concentration: Photography and Ceramics & Sculpture). Teresa received The Hope Art History Award in 2015 and 2016 (Art Department, LaGrange College) and The Annie Moore Smith Award in 2016 (Art Department, LaGrange College).
As a photographer, Foshee is exploring possibilities that lie beyond traditional representational photographs by creating unique abstract designs with her images. She first became interested in the idea of working with multiple images, when she took some pictures of her grandson’s snake and delved into the utilization of negative space. From those images, she created her first two photographic abstracts. That experience largely contributed to her pursuit of combining images using other subject matter such as architectural aspects, parts of old vehicles, and even some elements of nature.
Foshee has had photographs and bas relief tiles juried into several Art and Photography exhibits in Georgia and Alabama and has won several “Best in Photography” awards and “Awards of Merit.” Most recently, she was awarded “Best in Photography” at the Newnan-Coweta Art Association’s 16th Annual Juried Member Art Exhibit, which was held at The Donald W. Nixon Centre for Performing and Visual Arts in June, 2023. She has also had work juried into the Regions Bank Exhibits (Montgomery, AL), “Simple Pleasures” exhibits at the McRitchie-Hollis Museum (Newnan), The Hathaway Contemporary Gallery (Atlanta), The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts (Montgomery, AL), and the Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center (Auburn, AL).
Her work has been exhibited at the Vault Gallery (Wadsworth Auditorium, Newnan), Lamar Dodd Art Center (LaGrange), Cochran Gallery (LaGrange), Auburn CityFest (Auburn, AL), the City Hall Gallery (Montgomery, AL), and in a solo show at West Georgia Technical College (Finding Art in Everything). Her photographs are included in the permanent collection at the Lamar Dodd Art Center (LaGrange College) and at the Ida Callaway Hudson Lab Sciences Building (LaGrange College). She has also had work featured in the Newnan-Coweta Magazine (January/ February issue, 2017); and, she was a Feature Artist for Dinett Hok Magazine, 1st Edition, 2019-2020.
Currently, Foshee has photography on display at Due South Seafood Kitchen – The Loft (Peachtree City), and the Carnegie Library (Newnan), and she has pottery pieces on display at the Newnan Plaza Pharmacy (Newnan Hospital Annex). Her photography, bas relief tiles, and pottery were recently on display at the Peachtree City Library as a solo artist for the NCAA (September/October, 2023), and her pottery was also recently on display at the Carnegie Library (November/December, 2023), and the Franklin Library (September/October, 2023). Her photographs have also been displayed at the Newnan Theatre Company (Black Box Theatre), Southern Arc Dance (Newnan), and Burson ENT (Newnan), and she has had her photography and bas relief tiles on display at the Administration Building, Newnan (Art at the Admin).
Foshee is a member of NCAA. NCAA’s general meetings are held the third Monday of each month (August through May) at the Harriet Alexander Art Center on Hospital Road at 6:30 p.m. An art demonstration is presented each month. Visitors and new members are always welcome.
