During your visit to the Center of the West, be sure to spend some time with Artist-in-Residence Al Hubbard in our Plains Indian Museum. He serves as artist-in-residence each day from July 22–26 between the hours of 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
A Northern Arapaho/Navajo artist, Hubbard explores Indigenous culture and spirituality through contemporary and Pop styles. Hubbard will demonstrate his work and technique while chatting with visitors.
On July 25, Hubbard also leads a community art class that will use mixed media materials and Pop art concepts to express culture and belief systems. To learn more about this class and sign up, click here.
Al Hubbard is a Northern Arapaho and Navajo multi-media artist born in Idaho Falls, Idaho. He studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Central Wyoming College in Riverton, Wyoming.
Al’s range of projects have included painting, installation and printmaking. The unique manipulation mix of materials consists of image-transfers, acrylic mediums, and collage elements, reflect the complexity and multi-levels of living as a Native American in today’s world. His work combines stories, memory, and iconography of the Northern Arapaho and Navajo nations. Connecting these elements into his own visual language creates a direct link to the preservation of the past, living today, and preparing
for the future.
Al currently resides on the Wind River Reservation in central Wyoming. He continues to inspire others as he creates and produces bodies of work that challenges and redefines institutional Native American art.