Exhibition Opening | HAVE FAITH

On View: NOV 1 – DEC 7, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, November 1, 2024, 6-9 PM
PAGES OF POWER Workshop: Friday, November 15, 2024, 6-8:30 PM
Artist Talk and Tour: Friday, November 22, 2024, 6-8 PM
Performance + Open Mic Closing Celebration: Sunday, December 1, 2024, 6-9 PM

We live many lives in one lifetime. Spirit and faith keep us breathing and moving: they tell us to rebuild after breaking down. HAVE FAITH is an innovative solo exhibition inviting viewers on a journey into the depths of faith by exploring its intricate, layered connections to life, death, and personal power. Through a network of immersive soundscapes, interactive installations, reflective poetry, and symbolic visuals, this exhibition experience and its public programming evoke a sense of rebirth and spiritual awakening while reflecting on the past lives we carry within us.

HAVE FAITH seeks to recontextualize the concept of faith by emphasizing its role as a transformative force in our lives. FAITH McCorkle, the vessel channeling this experience, alchemizes pain into power, manifesting an ethereal and omnipresent world that immerses viewers across timelines.

This exhibition serves as a sacred, safe space to share testaments of resilience. Visitors are invited to rediscover their personal power, release the weight of past lives, and embrace rebirth. By exploring the profound connections between life, death, and spiritual rituals, HAVE FAITH ignites a renewed understanding of faith’s enduring significance in our waking existence.

Artist Bio:
FAITH McCorkle is a visionary transdisciplinary artist and cultural producer, channeling resilience and reconstruction through storytelling and collage. FAITH’s work spans papermaking, printmaking, immersive soundscapes, and curatorial projects, serving as vessels for the deep interconnectedness of divine guidance, transformative healing, and powerfull resilience. Through offerings of immersive programming, activations, and culinary experiences, FAITH also fosters Black restoration and community that guide personal and collective growth. FAITH is one half of the artist collective Hope and Faith ♡, formed with twin sister HOPE. Their collective work uses collage elements and Black ritual as tools to reconstruct the Black narrative, creating stories that honor the Black mother, spirit, soul food, and childlike wonder. FAITH holds a BFA in Studio Art from New York University and has received numerous awards, including a prestigious Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship and a 2024 Andy Warhol Foundation’s GritFund Grant, and is currently based in Baltimore, MD an artist-in-residence at Creative Alliance.