public art network council

Sioux Trujillo
Artist, Associate Director
Community + Public Art
Detroit, Michigan
E-mail: sioux@siouxtrujillo.com

Sioux Trujillo received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan. She has worked in the Detroit art community for 11 years as an artist and more recently as an administrator. Currently, she is the Associate Director of community+public arts: DETROIT, a two-year pilot initiative that brings community-driven public art projects to six underserved Detroit neighborhoods. This initiative helps youth reimagine their landscape and transform their communities. From 2005-2008 Sioux led Art on the Move (AOM), a program that promotes cultural awareness through the creation and exhibition of public art in Detroit. Sioux is also the recipient of a 2009 Kresge Artist Fellowship which provides $25,000 creative work and she is the recipient of a Michigan Educational Grant. She has also received awards for her mixed media works from Burren College of Art and College for Creative Studies. She has exhibited locally at the Pioneer Building, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, and Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and internationally at Muria Art Gallery in Kinvara, Ireland, Burren College of Art Gallery in Ballyvaughan, Ireland, in Pont-Aven, France, and at Taller Galleria Fort in Barcelona, Spain.