Where We Began

You Can Always Come Back Home
Exhibition On View: May 16 – June 26, 2026

Opening Reception: May 16, 6-9PM
Mindful Movement & Sound Healing: May 23, 12-2PM
Community Potluck & Storytelling: May 31, 5-8PM
Artist Talk: June 5, 6:30-8:30PM
Closing Reception: June 26, 6-9PM

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: Main Gallery 

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 and programming is supported by a 2025 Rubys Artist Grant, which is a program of the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation. https://www.rwdfoundation.org