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