Eleanor Foy is a multi-disciplinary artist currently based in Athens, Georgia. Raised in the south San Francisco Bay Area, the landscape and mythology of California and the American West continue to inform her work. After studying painting for three years at Pratt Institute in New York, Foy transferred to Kansas City Art Institute to complete her BFA in ceramics. This change in focus was compelled by a desire to work in a medium that spans fine art, craft, and mass-production. Foy has received numerous awards, including the Regina Brown Undergraduate Student Fellowship through the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) and the Warren MacKenzie Advancement Award through the Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Notable exhibitions include the 2022 NCECA Annual, Belonging, at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, and Trick Pony, a two-person exhibition with Grace Kennison at the Valley in Taos, New Mexico. She is interested in how vernacular language and objects express cultural values, and seeks to unpack the complicated layers of meaning in seemingly mundane images of Americana. Foy is an MFA candidate at the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens.