NCAA names Teresa Foshee as December Artist of the Month
From Special Reports
The Newnan-Coweta Art Association (NCAA) has selected Teresa Foshee as the featured “Artist of the Month” for December. Foshee’s art will be featured in the entry way to Newnan City Hall until December 31.
Foshee has always been an artist at heart, but life took her in other directions for a long time. She’s finally doing what she’s always wanted to do – explore, create, and design! She is a photographer, potter, and sculptor. Growing up in Illinois, near St. Louis, Missouri. She always loved to draw, and she remembers as a child 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. However, in 2013, Foshee 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). Foshee 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, Teresa enjoys photographing landscapes, architecture, and nature, as well exploring possibilities that lie beyond traditional representational photographs by creating abstract designs with her images. On display are a few of her vibrant and colorful fall photographs for your enjoyment.
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, Teresa 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). Ms. Foshee’s 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). Foshee 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.
She is a member of Newnan-Coweta Art Association. NCAA’s general meetings are held the third Monday of each month (from 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.
