Where We Began | Hope & Faith Artist Talk

Where We Began | Artist Talk with Hope and Faith McCorkle and Jamea Richmond-Edwards

Date: Friday, June 5, 2026

Time: 6:30 - 8:30 PM

Location: Creative Alliance Marquee Lounge, 3134 Eastern Ave, Baltimore, MD, 21224

Where We Began brings together twin artists Hope and Faith in conversation with their mentor, Jamea Richmond-Edwards, who has poured into them since their early teenage years. In dialogue with the exhibition You Can Always Come Back Home, this talk traces the roots of their creative practice—back to the classrooms, conversations, and care that shaped them.

Together, they will explore what “home” means across time: as a physical place, a source of memory, and a living relationship shaped by the Black mother and the household. This talk honors artistic lineage, the role of mentorship, and the ongoing act of returning—to self, to community, and to where it all began.

About the Artists:

Hope & Faith McCorkle

D.C.-born, Hyattsville, Maryland-raised twin siblings Eleisha Faith and Tonisha Hope McCorkle (b. 1999) are an interdisciplinary artist collective based in Baltimore, MD. They hold BFAs in Studio Art from New York University and are alumni of the Visual and Performing Arts program at the Jim Henson School of Arts, Media, and Communications. Creating in tandem since childhood, the twins have developed a collaborative practice grounded in healing through grief, storytelling, ritual, and collective memory.

Through monumental mixed-media scrolls, collage, film, and interactive installations, Hope & Faith construct expansive visual narratives that insist on home as an embodied knowing carried through memory, food, and shared ritual. Their work is marked by vibrant color fields, swirling skies, and fantastical landscapes where figures appear among suns, moons, and imagined worlds. Collard leaves, locs, soul food, and domestic motifs recur as cultural relics and symbols of nourishment, while references to Black ritual and familial memory anchor their dreamlike compositions.

Recognized by BmoreArt, WJZ-TV, and Hyattsville Life & Times, and with work installed at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC, they have received grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, the Andy Warhol Foundation, and the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation. Across their practice, Hope & Faith transform galleries into spaces of remembrance, healing, and collective return.

https://hopeandfaith.art

Jamea Richmond-Edwards

Jamea Richmond-Edwards was born and raised in Detroit, MI, where she currently resides. She studied painting and drawing at Jackson State University in Jackson, MS, before earning an MFA from Howard University in 2012.

In her artistic journey, she delves into the rich tapestry of culture and mythology, skillfully crafting narratives that probe the very essence of our reality. Through the medium of self-portraiture, she embarks on a profound quest for self-liberation, portraying heroines who embody the relentless pursuit of understanding in our enigmatic world. Influenced by the aesthetics of Africobra and nurtured by her education at Howard University, she creates vibrant monumental epics that invite viewers to immerse themselves in her artistic odyssey.

In 2019, she was honored with the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, leading to a residency in 2020. She has exhibited works at the El Segundo Museum of Art, Rubell Family Museum, Brooklyn Art Museum, California African American Museum, Frist Art Museum and Houston Museum of Fine Art.

https://jamearichmondedwardsstudios.com/ 

You Can Always Come Back Home

Exhibition on view May 16-June 26, 2026

Creative Alliance, 3134 Eastern Ave, Baltimore, MD, 21224

There is a particular kind of knowing that lives in a dinner table—in the grain of the wood, the weight of the chairs, the smell of a meal that no longer exists but somehow never leaves. Baltimore-based twin artists Hope & Faith McCorkle have built an entire exhibition around that knowing, and what it means to carry it long after the table and the person who set it are gone.

You Can Always Come Back Home is an immersive, multidimensional installation that asks one of the most profound questions we can hold: where is home when the world keeps moving and the people who made it are no longer here? Working across large-scale mixed-media scrolls, domestic objects, inherited furniture, and participatory installations, Hope and Faith construct a gallery environment that breathes like a living room—layered, intimate, and full of presence. Rooted in Black feminist thought and bell hooks' concept of homeplace as a site of resistance, the exhibition positions home not as a fixed location but as a space where memory, spirit, and ancestry live as one.

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