TANIA DIBBS attended the University of Virginia from which she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in fine art and in biology. Her art studies then took her to the SACI Art Institute in Florence, Italy, the Art Student's League in New York, and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, Colorado where she won an Aspen Foundation grant to fund her painting study and an Artists' Fellowships for Colorado Artists award to study steel sculpture. Her honors include a Visual Artist Fellowship award from the Colorado Council on the Arts and an Art in Public Places selection from the state of Colorado. She has had one woman and group shows in Aspen and across the United States, and her work is in collections worldwide. Tania is currently focused on showing her work at the "Tania Dibbs/Big Sky Studio gallery," which has enjoyed fabulous success since she opened it in Aspen in December 08.