#coritakent

[inprnt]

"Rule 4" by Caitlin Keegan on INPRNT

[harvard-art-museums-prints]

enriched bread, Corita Kent (Sister Mary Corita), 1965, Harvard Art Museums: Prints

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund © Courtesy of the Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Size: 75.6 x 92.1 cm (29 3/4 x 36 1/4 in.) frame: 86.4 x 114.3 x 4.1 cm (34 x 45 x 1 5/8 in.)

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/340684

[bm-contemporary-art]

Jesus Never Fails, Corita Kent, 1967, Brooklyn Museum: Contemporary Art

© Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles, CA Size: 29 13/16 × 36 1/16 in. (75.7 × 91.6 cm) Medium: Screen print (Serigraph)

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/93981

[moma-prints]

P prize boxes from circus alphabet, Corita Kent, 1968, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Gift of Zach Feuer and Alison Fox Size: composition: 22 1/2 × 22 1/2" (57.2 × 57.2 cm); sheet: 23 1/16 × 23 1/16" (58.6 × 58.6 cm) Medium: One from a series of twenty-six screenprints

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/157583

[uispeccoll]

#Voices From the Stacks

Learning by Heart- Jan Steward and Corita Kent.

Born Frances Elizabeth Kent, Sister Mary Corita Kent, was an American Roman Catholic religious sister, artist, and educator. Her art is often categorized in the “pop art” movement of the 1960′s, often heavily text based, combined with with bright, commercial brands logos to create political statements. Some of her key themes focused on social justice and Christianity. Her primary medium was silk screen, but she also created large public works, such as the  “Rainbow Swash” design on a LNG storage tank in Boston, as well as a popular U.S. postal “Love” forever stamp.

Partly because of the political nature of her work, and other tensions surrounding the Second Vatican Council, [with one Roman Catholic Cardinal calling the college "communist" and Kent’s work "blasphemous”] Kent, along with many of her fellow sisters, left the order to form the Immaculate Heart Community in 1970.

’’Learning by Heart” is part biography and part record of her teaching style and influence, started before she died in 1974, and finished by Jan Steward.

--Diane R.

[interstelaur]

My final project for my first ever graphic design class was to design a pattern inspired by an award-winning designer of my choice while using a grid alignment system and type. Playing off of the vibrant and positive designs of Corita Kent, I used the phrase "Power Up" from one of her more popular pieces and incorporated a religious view into it, as a majority of her work does. If you look closely, you can spot the crosses inside the positives and negatives of the batteries--symbolism for recharging your spiritual battery. Don't forget to power up and fight for what you believe in!

P.S. Thanks to this project I now know how to properly wrap a gift box and will be making much use of that new skill 😁

[herchive]

Corita Kent was an American pop artist, nun and educator, born in 1918 in Iowa. She was a member of the order of Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles and earned her BA from the Immaculate Heart College.  She became the head of the art department, and transformed it into a hub for avant-garde artists and inventors of the time like Saul Bass, Buckminster Fuller and Charles & Ray Eames. She had a unique and innovative style of teaching and would give assignments to her students based on principles of freedom, creativity and playfulness. After visiting a Andy Warhol exhibition she was inspired by his use of everyday elements in his work and started exploring a more pop inspired visual style, that she used to address sometimes deeper political and religious themes on her screenprints. In 1968, she left her order and started living a secular life. During this period, she kept on creating art, working on commercial comissions for clients like the Boston Gas Company, while also being involved in social causes She died of cancer in 1986, having created a large body of work during her life whose copyright she donated to the Immaculate Heart Community, which later created the  Corita Art Center to honor her legacy. Illustration @veilsandmirrors All images courtesy of @coritaartcenter #illustration #illustrationoftheday #womenofart #womenempowerment #womenartists #la #screenprinting #silkscreen #popart #femaleartist #nun #posterdesign #portrait #gfxmob #illustrationoftheday #losangeles #femalepopart #coritakent #coritakentpop #americanfemaleartists (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0nrWb2lwew/?igshid=9273h2wkho1x

[drawdownbooks]

Corita Kent: International Signal Code Alphabet⁣ Available at www.draw-down.com⁣ ⁣ Radical American artist, educator and Catholic nun, Corita Kent’s (1918–86) provocative and elaborate serigraphy has entranced audiences for over four decades. Originally completed in 1968, Kent’s International Signal Code Alphabet encompasses a series of 26 kaleidoscopic serigraphs integrating scripture, typography, image, icon and the maritime flags of the International Code of Signals. As 2018 marked the 50th anniversary of both the series’ completion and the centennial of Kent’s birth, this celebratory publication, produced in collaboration with the Corita Art Center, reproduces for the first time the International Signal Code Alphabet in this handsome and eye-grabbing yellow clothbound volume.⁣ ⁣ #CoritaKent #Alphabet #artist #educator #Catholicnun⁣ ⁣ https://www.instagram.com/p/BvjROyTn6M4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=h7wcrhvlkgkn