You Can Always Come Back Home

Exhibition On View: May 16 – June 26, 2026

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

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.

At the heart of the exhibition is an altar built from their late mother, Tonya Wendell McCorkle’s dinner table, alongside a meditative labyrinth and scroll-based works that move between personal narrative and collective history. The gallery becomes what the artists have always sought to build: a sanctuary born from the grief of losing their mother at seventeen, and from the collaborative practice that became their way back to life.

The exhibition extends beyond the gallery through community programming, including a movement and sound healing workshop, storytelling gatherings, and a communal meal where participants bring dishes and the memories they hold. These are not simply add-ons. They are the embodiments of the exhibition itself.

This is what art can do at its highest purpose: transform a room into a refuge, and invite Baltimore’s community to remember that no matter how far you have traveled, how much has been lost, or how long you have been away, you can always come back home.

You Can Always Come Back Home is supported by a Rubys Artist Grant, a program of the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation.

Twin artist collective Hope & Faith McCorkle are world-builders, wielding art as a vessel for healing, memory, and transformation. Through monumental mixed-media scrolls, collage, soul food, and interactive installations, their award-winning practice explores Black ritual, spiritual resilience, and ancestral wisdom. The dynamic duo honors Black motherhood and collective consciousness while reconstructing Black experiences across dimensions with vibrant, immersive creations.