Al Hubbard is a Northern Arapaho and Navajo artist. Hubbard currently works for Central Wyoming College as a tribal education assistant, collaborating with his community to educate, create and provide insight on what it is to be Indigenous today.
“I’ve worked for the Northern Arapaho tribe in different capacities, but this is probably one of the most rewarding because I’m involved in education; I’m able to flex my creativity,” Hubbard said. “First and foremost, I consider myself a contemporary artist, and that’s always been a part of who I am, without question.”
Hubbard grew up in Idaho and Las Vegas but moved to the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming with his mother in his late teen years, as his mother was Northern Arapaho and his father is Navajo. This move, Hubbard said, allowed for him to “really embrace the culture, but it was a culture shock, you know? Growing up in Last Vegas, and we moved to a small town in Wyoming.”…