Amy Foltz was born in Columbus, Ohio, on December 24, 1953 and grew up in the nearby suburb of Westerville. The high school art teacher exposed Foltz to artistic venues that would make sense of her whole high school experience.
After high school Foltz assisted her father in making stained glass windows for four churches in Ohio. A friend suggested to Foltz that she take a printmaking class at Ohio State University as the process of intaglio might be conducive to her choice of expression. Yes it was, and printmaking professor Sid Chafez provided an opportunity for exploration of the minute layers of intaglio and color. Foltz married J. S. Hoover in 1977 and got her BFA in 1978, from OSU after three years of study. After getting pregnant, Foltz made a choice to be immersed in family life and they moved to Colorado where she was a housewife for 18 years.
Foltz learned non-toxic forms of artistic expression over the 18 years at home and then made a choice to do what it would take to get her MFA. Wanting to secure a job in the academic environment of the art world was what drove Foltz to school at the University of New Mexico-Taos. The printmaking professor, Jennifer Lynch, reacquainted Foltz to printmaking and introduced her to non-toxic methods that Keith Howard has pioneered.
After finishing a semester in New Mexico, Foltz moved to Athens, Ohio and took classes for a year to build her portfolio. This body of work got her accepted into graduate school in Vermillion at USD, where she aquired her MFA in Printmaking under Lloyd Menard.
Printmaking is only one of Foltz's modes of artistic expression. Mediums that require tactile manipulation are indulged in to balance out the art world in which Foltz lives.
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