Those Who Art Together: A Casual Critique w/ FAITH

Join artists for monthly Open Critique—one of Creative Alliance’s longest-running programs! This is an opportunity to share artwork in progress, engage with local artists, and build community. This event is free for members, and this month is hosted by artist FAITH! Each session is an open forum to show 1-2 examples of your artwork and receive feedback from experienced artists from varying mediums and backgrounds. Please send digital examples of work 48 hours before the event day to visualarts@creativealliance.org.

Artist Bio
FAITH (Eleisha Faith McCorkle) is a fine artist and cultural producer whose work unifies the notions of resilience and reconstruction. FAITH uses storytelling and the process of collage to communicate the layered multidimensionality of the Black experience through creating large-scale scrolls, cooking and sharing soul food, and curating immersive experiences. FAITH’s work serves as purposeful interventions as Blackness is investigated and venerated through space, food, power, spirit, and magic. Channeling these aspects, new positions of the Black archetype are uncovered–an archetype that is nurtured, powerfully resilient, and divinely guided.  FAITH’s poetry and curatorial work deconstruct meanings woven into speech and language, curating exhibitions investigating the phonetics and etymology of words and their relations to Blackness and spirituality. FAITH discerns that words have immense power and by breaking down their roots, intentionally created exhibitions, programming, and musical compositions hold space for Black restoration and community. FAITH makes up half of the artist collective Hope and Faith ♡, an interdisciplinary art collaborative formed with twin sister, HOPE (Tonisha Hope McCorkle). The collective’s work uses collage elements and Black ritual as puzzle pieces to reconstruct the Black narrative, creating stories that serve as a spiritual process towards completion.  D.C.-born and Prince George’s raised, FAITH holds a BFA in Studio Art with a concentration in Social and Cultural Analysis from New York University. FAITH has received a 2024 Andy Warhol Foundation’s GritFund Grant, an MSAC Creativity Grant, a DC CAH Art Bank Grant, a Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Award, and has work permanently installed at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in D.C. Currently living and working in Baltimore, Maryland, FAITH is an Artist-in-Residence with Creative Alliance and a Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance Urban Arts Leadership 2024 Fellow, breaking through limitations and emerging as a leader in the arts sector.