Sandy Scott, sculptor, artist, and conservationist was born in 1943 in Dubuque, Iowa, and lives today in Lander, Wyoming.

Surrounded by mountains, lakes and streams in her Wyoming and Canadian Lake Country studios, Sandy Scott is an avid outdoors woman, licensed pilot, and lives the life she depicts. She is the daughter of an Oklahoma rancher and was trained at the Kansas City Art Institute. Early in life she worked as an animation background artist for the motion picture industry and as a commercial artist. Sandy has lived in the west most of her adult life and when not in the studio, travels the world in search of art and adventure. She can be found afield with her beloved Brittany and her best friend, Trish.

A Fellow of the National Sculpture Society and member of the National Arts Club, her work is in important collections and museums including Gilcrease Museum, the National Museum of Wildlife Art, the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, R.W. Norton Museum, Brookgreen Gardens, and the Briscoe Museum. The Clinton Presidential Library, and the US Military Academy at West Point are among her many public and private commissions and installations. Her work resides on many university and college campuses including Hillsdale College, Belmont College, University of Colorado, and more. See (www.sandyscott.com).

The Briscoe Museum recently awarded Sandy the Legacy Award for Lifetime Achievement She also has received major awards from the National Sculpture Society including the Marilyn Newmark Memorial Award for Realistic Sculpture in the Classical Tradition and the Agop Agopoff Memorial Prize for Classical Sculpture. She is the recipient of the Society of Animal Artists Award of Excellence. She is on the Board of Trustees at Brookgreen Gardens.

Sandy was recently honored with a retrospective which was exhibited at several museums including Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina and the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming. The Retrospective featured sculpture, etchings, and paintings from the past 50 years of her professional career.

She continues to teach a yearly bird sculpture and comparative antimony workshop, introduce new works in prestigious invitational museum exhibitions, and show in galleries across the nation.