Meet Jill Trenholm
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Jill Trenholm is a Sedona-based bronze sculptor, musician, and storyteller whose work explores themes of healing, unity, and human dignity. Born in Sheridan, Wyoming, and raised in the intermountain West by a forest-service father and a kindergarten-teacher mother, Jill developed an early and lasting connection to the natural world — one that continues to shape the textures, forms, and creatures found throughout her sculpture today.

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Jill's path to bronze work wound through Los Angeles, where she spent nearly two decades as a freelance sculptor and toy painter for companies including Disney and Applause, and later created the internationally sold collectible figurine series In a Nutshell, which brought her to national and international giftware shows and a featured spot on QVC.
 

After relocating to Sedona, Jill met legendary bronze sculptor John Soderberg and became his student, then his protégée — eventually serving as his caretaker in his final years. She now carries his methods forward, teaching new bronze artists from her own Trenholm Sculpture Studio in Sedona. Her exhibition Mastery in Motion, presented with the Fine Art Museum of Sedona, honors both her own artistic voice and her deep bond with Soderberg, exploring how a rigid, cold medium like bronze can be made to feel alive and in motion.
 

Beyond sculpture, Jill is an accomplished singer-songwriter — she earned a vocal scholarship to Utah State University and has opened for Michael McDonald — as well as an author of children's books.

Her recent work includes The Deer Woman, created to honor and raise awareness for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives movement, and the Tree of Oneness, a piece celebrating the interconnectedness of humanity and the living world — now the inspiration for the community mural at Sedonya's Oneness Weekend.

Learn more Jill at a https://www.jilltrenholm.com/