Fiber and papermaking artist Nevada Tribble featured in Carnegie Hall’s Lobby Gallery

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Lewisburg, West Virginia – Carnegie Hall’s Old Stone Room features the work of interdisciplinary fiber and papermaking artist Nevada Tribble, on view now through the end of June as part of the ongoing Carnegie Hall ArtWalk. 

Carnegie Hall’s ArtWalk invites visitors to explore original works by local and regional artists throughout four distinct gallery spaces inside the historic 1902 landmark. The self‑guided experience showcases a wide range of creative expression—from contemporary oil portraits to heirloom‑quality craft arts – highlighting the depth and diversity of the Appalachian arts community.

Tribble’s exhibition brings a deeply place‑based perspective to the Old Stone Room. A native of Elkins, West Virginia, Tribble creates work rooted in the landscapes, materials, and stories of Appalachia. Her practice blends handmade paper, sewing, weaving, and foraged natural materials, often created outdoors in direct conversation with the environment. Whether stitching with her innovative bicycle‑powered sewing machine or forming paper from river water and gathered plant fibers, Tribble’s process reflects a profound commitment to reciprocity, attention, and care.

A graduate of Shepherd University and a 2020 Tamarack Foundation for the Arts Emerging Artist Fellow, Tribble has exhibited throughout West Virginia and Maryland and has been featured in the North American Hand Papermakers exhibition Materiality: Hand Papermaking in the Age of Isolation. She maintains a studio at the Randolph County Community Arts Center, where she continues to expand her practice through cyanotypes, woven textiles, mixed‑media installations, and site‑responsive works shaped by the mountains she calls home.

Her pieces in the Old Stone Room invite viewers to slow down and notice the quiet narratives embedded in fiber—stories carried in each stitch, strand, and handmade sheet of paper. Through her work, Tribble explores themes of community, hope, healing, and belonging, offering a tactile reflection on the enduring relationship between people and places in Appalachia.

The exhibit runs through the end of June and is free and open to the public, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. For more information, please visit carnegiehallwv.org, call (304) 645‑7917, or stop by Carnegie Hall at 611 Church Street, Lewisburg, WV.

Carnegie Hall programs are presented with financial assistance through a grant from the West Virginia Department of Tourism and the National Endowment for the Arts, with approval from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts.