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 and warp_dmv.