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 rooted in storytelling, ritual, and collective memory.
After losing their mother to sarcoidosis at seventeen, art became both sanctuary and ceremony. What began as a way to process grief has expanded into an immersive practice centered on Black healing, spirituality, and ancestral veneration. Through monumental mixed-media scrolls, collage, film, and interactive installations, Hope & Faith construct expansive visual narratives and epics 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 significant 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. By breaking down and rebuilding materials through collage and layering, the artists mirror the ways Black life continually reconstructs itself, transforming the ordinary into altar and the gallery into a space of gathering, reflection, and return.
Hope and Faith’s work has been recognized by BmoreArt, WJZ-TV, Hyattsville Life & Times, and others, and they have spoken about their cultural work at the Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Their work has been shown in renowned institutions, with a permanent installation at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington, DC. The pair has received numerous accolades, including grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, the Andy Warhol Foundation, and are recent awardees of the esteemed Rubys Artist Grant from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation. Through every scroll, installation, and gathering, Hope & Faith affirm that healing is collective and that return is always possible.
✩ TWIN MAGIC ✩
