User:Wendeee3/Sienna Gonzales

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Sienna Gonzales (1998) is a queer Mexican and Chitimachan visual artist.

Biography
Gonzales is a native Californian living in Los Angeles. She has been interested in art since she was a child with her first art piece being a chalk drawing on the floor when she was a year old. Gonzales was primarily self-taught in art growing up, learning from YouTube videos and completing art classes in high school, which led to her joining UCLA’s Fine Arts Program and receiving her bachelor’s degree in fine arts (BFA) in 2020. Her work can be found in the UCLA Department of Art 2020 Senior Exhibition Unfrayed.

Art
After earning her BFA, she worked as an illustrator, painter, makeup artist, creative writer, and private art instructor. She uses a range of mediums in her artwork such as Procreate, colored pencils, acrylic paint, etc. Gonzales is influenced by folk art and children's illustrations to create recurring characters, such as alligators and wolves, which represent people in her life or abstract beings to help process her feelings. She is active on social media where she goes by the name "Somewhere in June."


 * Barbara May Cameron’s 69 Birthday Google Doodle (2023) is a Google doodle to honor Barbara May Cameron’s 69th birthday, a Native American photographer and activist.
 * Escape is part of her UCLA Senior Exhibition Unfrayed.
 * Fourth of July beyond the fireworks illustration for Illuminative, a Native women-led organization.