FAITH ∞

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 curatorial work deconstructs meanings woven into speech and language, curating exhibitions that investigate 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 and programming hold space for Black restoration and community.

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 been the recipient of a 2024 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.

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ARTIST STATEMENT ∞

I do nothing without intention.