You Can Always Come Back Home | Closing & Zine Release Celebration!

The Grand Finale: Exhibition Closing and Zine Release Celebration!

Please join us for the closing of You Can Always Come Back Home and the celebration of the release of Manifesting the Metaphysical: Beyond Black Grief! Culminating all of the themes embedded in Hope & Faith's work, this community zine features works from the Baltimore community to underscore the collective consciousness in our means to transcend and move through grief as Black bodies. Designed by Blackberry Zine Collective, the zine features works from:

• Michele Blu
• Lynore Routte
• Tavair Tapp
• Jordan Carter
• Lehna Huie
• Muse Dodd
• Dez Thaniel
• Unique The Word
• Phillip Muriel
• Jade Flower Foster
• Rest Easy Bby
• Amaka Korie
• Damon Walker
• Vetiver
• Mathilde Mujanayi
• Troy LaShawan Norris
• Chin-Yer
• Sanah Brown-Bowers

Manifesting the Metaphysical: Beyond Black Grief is a community zine and collaborative portal into the spiritual and esoteric landscapes of Black grief, healing, and transformation. Curated by Hope & Faith McCorkle and designed by Blackberry Zine Collective, this publication gathers sacred narratives from Black artists in the Baltimore region, offering a layered exploration of how loss is navigated, alchemized, and transformed through creative practice.

Metaphysics, the study of existence beyond the physical, guides the spirit of the zine. It considers how unseen forces such as memory, spirit, and ancestral wisdom shape the Black experience and live within everyday rituals of survival, care, and creation. Through testimonies, intimate documentation of artworks, poetry, reflections, and process imagery, contributors manifest the metaphysical by channeling their stories onto each page. Each spread becomes a vessel and conversation for spiritual restoration, holding space for what cannot be easily named yet is deeply felt.

By exploring the profound ways Black artists use creation as both sanctuary and catalyst for transformation, Manifesting the Metaphysical: Beyond Black Grief affirms that healing through grief is not bound by time. It lives on these pages and in the hands of the community as an ongoing journey held gently in our shared existence.

Zines are free, and this event is open to the public. One zine per person, and you must be present to receive it.

This event is supported in part by GritFund, CreateBaltimore, and the City of Baltimore.

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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