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 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
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
RESIDENCY
Plough Gallery, Tifton GA (August 2017 – August 2018)
PROJECTS
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
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)
PUBLICATIONS
Arts Writing
Evans, Shelby. “Making THIS IS SHE.” Tifton Scene, 13.5 (Sept. 18, 2018).
Evans, Shelby. “Dylan Ross: A Blank Canvas” Southwest Georgia Living Magazine, (May 2018)
Evans, Shelby. “Visiting Collagist Kristy Hughes in Valdosta” BURNAWAY, (April 4, 2018)
Evans, Shelby. “Dylan Ross Finds Success and Inspiration in Rural Douglas GA” BURNAWAY, (Dec. 28, 2017)
Evans, Shelby. “Plough Gallery: Growing an arts community” Tifton Scene Magazine, 12.6 (Nov. 2017)
Evans, Shelby. “Tales from the School Bus Graveyard” BURNAWAY, (Oct. 2, 2017)
Evans, Shelby. “Artist Donna Falcone finds art and healing by following the ink to GMA Gallery” Tifton Gazette, (Oct. 1, 2018).
Evans, Shelby. “Plough Gallery hosts big bling with Harvard instructor Kathy King” Tifton Gazette, (Sept. 6, 2018).
Evans, Shelby. “‘Piece by Part’ exhibit opens at Plough Gallery” Tifton Gazette, (July, 28 2018).
Evans, Shelby. “Woodturner shapes bowls, spurtles from wooden blocks” Tifton Gazette, (July 4, 2018)
Evans, Shelby. “ABAC Pegasus and Plough Gallery deliver storytelling straight ‘From the Horse’s Mouth’” Tifton Gazette, (March 8, 2018)
Evans, Shelby. “Photographer Shippey hosts final show” Tifton Gazette, (March 3, 2018)
Evans, Shelby. “‘For the Love of Mud’ opens at GMA gallery” Tifton Gazette, (Feb. 2, 2018)
Evans, Shelby. “Mouth Water in Elbow Grease Opens in Plough Gallery” Tifton Gazette, (Jan. 26, 2018)
Evans, Shelby. “Artists demonstrate fine craft at Plough Gallery” Tifton Gazette, (Dec. 20, 2017)
Evans, Shelby. “Plough Gallery hosts live artist demonstrations” Tifton Gazette, (Dec. 8, 2017)
Evans, Shelby. “Art finds new home at expanded Tifton gallery” Tifton Gazette, (Sept. 14, 2017)
Evans, Shelby. “Creating to the 'Max' at Art Camp” Tifton Gazette, (July 14, 2017)
Evans, Shelby. “Stepping up to the lathe with the Little River Woodturners Guild” Tifton Gazette, (July 19, 2017)
Evans, Shelby. “Tea Ceremony unites Southern, Japanese culture” Tifton Gazette, (April 21, 2017)
Evans, Shelby. “One year, three artists” Tifton Gazette, (March 31, 2017)
News Writing
Evans, Shelby. “Celebrating the legacy and culture of La Fiesta del Pueblo” Tifton Gazette, (Oct. 5, 2018).
Evans, Shelby. “Governor candidate Stacey Abrams meets, speaks with Fitzgerald crowd” Tifton Gazette, (Aug. 27, 2018)
Evans, Shelby. “Gazette celebrates the Best of Tifton” Tifton Gazette, (July 31, 2018)
Evans, Shelby. “Fitzgerald art campers explore U.S. history” Tifton Gazette, (June 13, 2018)
Evans, Shelby. “Housing authority celebrates record number of graduates” Tifton Gazette, (June 1, 2018)
Evans, Shelby. “South Georgia immigrant support network creates hospitality house” Tifton Gazette, (May 30, 2018)
Evans, Shelby. “Tiftarea Academy graduates amass $1.75 million in scholarships” Tifton Gazette, (May 16, 2018)
Evans, Shelby. “Folk Life Festival postponed, but Ag Museum still provides learning opportunities” Tifton Gazette, (April 11, 2018)
Evans, Shelby. “Business is blooming at Belle’s Flower Truck” Tifton Gazette, (March 28, 2018)
Evans, Shelby. “Chickens go wild at Fitzgerald festival” Tifton Gazette, (March 21, 2018)
Evans, Shelby. “Community Care Day connects services, organizations with residents” Tifton Gazette, (March 14, 2018)
Evans, Shelby. “Little Hippie Chick brings music festival vibe to downtown Tifton” Tifton Gazette, (Feb. 19, 2018)
Evans, Shelby. “Community Builds New Playground at Len Lastinger” Tifton Gazette, (Jan. 13, 2018)
Evans, Shelby. “Harmony Jubilee brings hot air balloons to Fitzgerald” Tifton Gazette, (Nov. 23, 2017)
Evans, Shelby. “Dwight Yoakam performs in Tifton” Tifton Gazette, (Nov. 8, 2017)
Evans, Shelby. “Fitzgerald Hurricanes collaborate for Coffee House” Tifton Gazette, (Oct. 12, 2017)
Evans, Shelby. “ABAC host immigration panel” Tifton Gazette, (Oct. 8, 2017)
Evans, Shelby. “Local humanitarian group reaches out to immigrant detainees” Tifton Gazette, (Sept. 29, 2017)
Evans, Shelby. “Tifton Museum celebrates 20th anniversary” Tifton Gazette, (May 20, 2017)
Evans, Shelby. “‘All aboard!’ as Tifton celebrates Nation Train Day” Tifton Gazette, (May 19, 2017)
Evans, Shelby. “Elephants making their way to ABAC in new documentary” Tifton Gazette, (May 9, 2017)
Evans, Shelby. “Full house at ABAC Alumni Award Ceremony” Tifton Gazette, (April 9, 2017)
Evans, Shelby. “A squawking good time had in Fitzgerald” Tifton Gazette, (March 22, 2017)
Evans, Shelby. “Artists Collective” Tifton Gazette, (Feb. 17, 2017)
Evans, Shelby. “Local poets, musicians seize the mic” Tifton Gazette, (Feb. 8, 2017)
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