Cas Foste

Cas Foste is a photographic artist who loves working with models and light paintings, intimate portraits of water, and Waldo Chicken. Her passion for photography and art started when she was knee high with a 110 camera. At about 10 or 12 her grandfather gave her his Honeywell Pentax, her first SLR. In 2001, she started on the collegiate path and in 2006 graduated from Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado with her Bachelors of Fine Arts with an Emphasis in both Photography and Printmaking. After a short volunteer term at Ramana’s Garden, a children’s home and school in Rishikesh, India, Cas returned to Colorado. She currently lives in Colorado Springs and became a mother in 2020.

In January 2011, Cas decided to extend her education and started a mentorship with fine art photographer and the previous president of Peak Digital Imaging Society (PDIS), Bill Young. As her first “official” big project, Cas was one of the official photographers for the Manitou Springs Chair Project held in October 2011 in Manitou Springs, Colorado. She and Young collaborated to create the largest Gigapan photograph of an art instillation piece, which can be viewed on the Gigapan website. Cas has been a member of PDIS since 2008 and was voted in as President of PDIS in January 2013.

Cas is currently the Curator and Assistant Manager at Academy Art & Frame Company (AAFC) as well as applying marketing and event coordination. She helps to organize and promote the monthly art exhibitions, featured artist mini exhibits, classes, and manage the art on consignment. Annual monthly shows include: two Photography Exhibits; Art Aloud for National Poetry Month; How Do You See God?; and Miniature Exhibition. In 2012, Cas designed and developed the first self-published book of the exhibited work in How Do You See God?. 2022 was the 12th year of the exhibition and the 11th year for the publication.

Cas has won numerous awards over the years, including 2nd, 3rd and Juror’s Choice Awards in the amateur division at the Colorado State Fair Fine Art Exhibition (CSFFAE). August 2016 was Cas’s sixth year to be accepted into the professional division of the CSFFAE, and has won two Juror’s Choice Awards. She also took 1st place in the printmaking division at the AAFC 2014 Juried Miniature Exhibition. And she has won and/or placed in many of the PDIS juried competitions and regularly exhibits in local shows. Solo exhibitions of her work have been on display at Academy Art & Frame Co., Manitou Art Center, Orchard Ovens Bakery, the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center with the premier debut of Waldo Chicken, and The Bridge Commons Gallery also with Waldo Chicken.

Cas is a member of the Pikes Peak Arts Council and 421 Make Art. In 2015, 421 created an art car for Art O’Cade held in Trinidad, CO based around the Big Heads from Waldo Chicken. The car was Art Carfunkel and each member of 421 created their own Big Head. The team won Bestest Mostest Team/Community Car. The trophy is on display at AAFC.

Please enter City Hall through the Southeast corner entrance. The main doors up the historic steps are currently closed to the public. The Art Gallery is located on the second floor in the Northwest corner of the building.