Shelby Hubbard is a sewist, sculptor, and writer. She was born and raised across the rural and urban South. Hubbard is reexamining relationships through the tools, aesthetics, and semiotics of their girlhood and adolescence to better understand the impacts of trauma, and re-formation, on their brain and body.
Hubbard uses fabric, textiles, sewing, and paper mâché to bring these impacts into physical reality. Play, tactile exploration, craft skills, and therapeutic practices are processes to explore and negotiate with their experiences.
Motivated by curiosity, Hubbard traverses the inner landscape to better understand the true self, the nuance of tangled relationships, family history, radical empathy, memory, joy, and pleasure.
She graduated with her MFA in Studio Art at Florida State University in the Spring of 2022. She received her undergraduate degree in Rural Studies Writing and Communication at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.
Hubbard has written for South Georgia newspapers, magazines, and the contemporary online art magazine BURNAWAY.
She now writes Meaning / Making.
CV
EDUCATION
MFA in Studio Art (Spring 2022) Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
BA in Writing and Communication (2016) Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Tifton, GA
Graduated Magna Cum Laude
EXHIBITIONS
Altered States - Alliance Gallery - Arlington, VA ( October - November 2024) Regional Juried Exhibition
Microcinema Film Festival - COOP Gallery - Nashville, TN (September 2024) Film and Video Festival
Emerging Artists Exhibition - The Delaplaine Arts Center - Frederick, MD (April 2023) Group Exhibition
Windows to the Inside - Woman Made Gallery - Virtual (March 2023) Group Exhibition
Bodies of Meaning – Museum of Fine Arts – Tallahassee, FL (May 2022) Group Exhibition
All About Love – Working Method Contemporary – Tallahassee, FL (February 2022) Group Exhibition
The Shape of Care – WJB Gallery -- Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (Nov 2021) Group Exhibition
Members’ Exhibition – 621 Gallery – Tallahassee, FL (Aug 2021) Group Exhibition
If you like this, you’ll love that – Collarworks – Troy, NY (July 7, 2020) Online group exhibition
Slips, Trips, and Falls – Working Method Contemporary – Tallahassee, FL (Feb 21, 2020) Group exhibition
We’re Not From Here – Working Method Contemporary – Tallahassee, FL (Sept 13, 2019) Group exhibition
Pop-T.Art – Cat Family Records – Tallahassee, Fl (Sept 7, 2019) Group exhibition
THIS IS SHE – Plough Gallery – Tifton, GA (July 2018) Solo exhibition
RESIDENCIES
Peter Bullough Foundation - Winchester, VA (June 2023 – August 2023 )
Plough Gallery - Tifton, GA (August 2017 – August 2018)
TEACHING
Teaching Assistant, Art + the Environment, Florida State University | Online, Tallahassee, Fl May 2023 – Aug 2024
Instructor, Three-Dimensional Design North Virginia Community College | Hybrid, Loudon, VA Aug 2022 – Dec 2023
Instructor, Contemporary Art as a Mirror Florida State University | Online, Tallahassee, Fl May 2022 – Dec 2023
Instructor, Three-Dimensional Design Florida State University | Tallahassee, Fl Aug 2020 – May 2022
Teaching Assistant, Diversity and Justice Florida State University | Tallahassee, Fl Jul 2021 + Jul 2024
PROJECTS
Lost Weekend Film Festival
Designed merchandise and hosted a pop-up collage workshop between screenings
In partnership with The Peter Bullough Foundation
Alamo Drafthouse, Winchester, VA, September 2024
thresholds
Curated and organized a 16 person show
Carnaghi Arts Building and Woking Method Contemporary
2214 Belle Vue Way, Tallahassee, Fl, October 2021
Pop-Up Art Show
Organized and implemented with the League of Graduate Artists
Suite L 1950 Thomasville Rd, Tallahassee, Fl, February 2021
Sit. Relax. Listen.
In collaboration with Madelyn Shinham, Carnaghi Arts Building, January 30, 2021
An hour and a half dedicated to acknowledging the present moment.
Auction to benefit The Movement 850
Working Method Contemporary Instagram, June 22, 2020 - July 6, 2020
Organized and implemented
On the Line
Temporary public installation, Fitzgerald Church of the Nazarene, Fitzgerald Carnegie Building Courtyard, August 2019
Let Them Be Free
Temporary public banner installation, Shut Down ICDC March and Caravan, March 2, 2021
HONORS/AWARDS
Second Place at Altered States, Alliance Gallery, Arlington, VA juried by Rosemary Feit Covey (October 2024)
Ada Belle Winthrop-King Visual Arts Endowment, Florida State University, Department of Fine Arts (October 2021)
Sculpture Award, Florida State University Department of Fine Arts (March 2021)
First Place Magazine Commentary, Georgia Press Association, Tifton Scene Magazine, THIS IS SHE (May 2019)
Second Place for News Photography, Georgia Press Association (June 2018)
Nominated for the ABAC Alumni Association Award (Nov. 2016)
PRESS
Markoski, Katherine. “East City Art Reviews—Altered States at Alliance Gallery” November 19, 2024
Jenkins, Mark. “In the galleries: An artist clocks in on a visual concept of time" The Washington Post August 18, 2023
Clements, Josh. “Plough Gallery hosts ‘This is She’ exhibit” Tifton Gazette July 28, 2018
Lord, Rachel. “Young artist champions rural arts” Albany Herald July 28, 2018
Butler, Sherri. “Shelby Evans’ exhibit invites thought about wonder-filled life, expectation of women” The Herald Leader Aug. 8, 2018
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Arts Writing
“Making THIS IS SHE.” Tifton Scene, 13.5 (Sept. 18, 2018).
“Dylan Ross: A Blank Canvas” Southwest Georgia Living Magazine, (May 2018)
“Visiting Collagist Kristy Hughes in Valdosta” BURNAWAY, (April 4, 2018)
“Dylan Ross Finds Success and Inspiration in Rural Douglas GA” BURNAWAY, (Dec. 28, 2017)
“Plough Gallery: Growing an arts community” Tifton Scene Magazine, 12.6 (Nov. 2017)
“Tales from the School Bus Graveyard” BURNAWAY, (Oct. 2, 2017)
“Plough Gallery hosts big bling with Harvard instructor Kathy King” Tifton Gazette, (Sept. 6, 2018).
“‘Piece by Part’ exhibit opens at Plough Gallery” Tifton Gazette, (July, 28 2018).
“Woodturner shapes bowls, spurtles from wooden blocks” Tifton Gazette, (July 4, 2018)
News Writing
“Celebrating the legacy and culture of La Fiesta del Pueblo” Tifton Gazette, (Oct. 5, 2018).
“Governor candidate Stacey Abrams meets, speaks with Fitzgerald crowd” Tifton Gazette, (Aug. 27, 2018)
“Fitzgerald art campers explore U.S. history” Tifton Gazette, (June 13, 2018)
“Housing authority celebrates record number of graduates” Tifton Gazette, (June 1, 2018)
“South Georgia immigrant support network creates hospitality house” Tifton Gazette, (May 30, 2018)
“Chickens go wild at Fitzgerald festival” Tifton Gazette, (March 21, 2018)
“Community Care Day connects services, organizations with residents” Tifton Gazette, (March 14, 2018)
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