#corita kent

[artfullearner]

Sister Corita Kent’s "10 Rules for Students, Teachers, and Life," 1967-68.

Corita Kent’s list for students, educators, and everyday experiences, serves as sagely and flexible advice for living life in a more creative capacity. It incorporates the trials and tribulations, as well as the joys of being an artist (or being artful) and/or an educator. Read more about the pedagogy behind Kent's list in my Artfully Learning post "Making a list, checking it twice, going to receive some artistic advice"

#corita kent #art education #art advice #art inspiration #contemporary art #art school #art teacher #teaching artist

[transpondster]

Rules for students and teachers, listed by John Cage

[also attributed to Sister Corita Kent, c1968]

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[agirlnamedbone]

Sister Corita Kent // 1969

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[uwmspeccoll]

Staff Pick of the Week

CORITA KENT

Corita Kent (1918-1986), also known as Sister Mary Corita, was an artist, educator, and social justice activist. At age 18, Kent entered the order of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM) and went on to teach at and eventually head the art department of the Immaculate Heart College. She was a prolific artist creating primarily serigraphs, but also heavily utilized film, photography, and watercolor throughout her life. Kent’s work is vibrant and hopeful in its incorporation of electric colors, religious texts, popular song lyrics and poetry, advertising images and slogans, and an overall message of peace.  

In 1968 Pilgrim Press, the publishing arm of the liberal-religious United Church of Christ, published a Sister Corita box set celebrating the scope of her life’s work. The box set includes 30 facsimile prints of her artwork and a hardcover book containing essays by Kent, Harvey Cox, and Samuel A. Eisenstein. Kent’s essay Art and Beauty in the Life of the Sister shines a light on her way of viewing the world with “wild booming joy” and her playful process of looking for lessons from the psalms in everything. Harvey Cox reflects on Kent’s “festive involvement with the world” in her daily habits and through her art, and Eisenstein shares his experience of attending an Art & Community Workshop lead by Kent and two other IHM Sisters. The book concludes with black and white catalog of Kent’s prints from 1952-1967.  

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-Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

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[muspeccoll]

The cover of this pamphlet was designed by Corita Kent, a nun whose influential artwork spread a message of social justice, peace, and equal rights. Kent used silkscreen as a means to create democratic, accessible art, and she became a well-known designer. Throughout the 1960s, she engaged with themes such as racism, feminism, and the Vietnam War in ways that drew criticism from Catholic traditionalists. This pamphlet cover was designed about a year before Kent left her convent and her role as an art teacher there.

This pamphlet and many others are available as an open access collection in JSTOR.

Thomas Merton. Blessed Are the Meek: The Christian Roots of Nonviolence. July 1967. Documents. Catholic Peace Fellowship, 1967. https://jstor.org/stable/community.33124894.

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[chainsawpunk]

Corita Kent, sometimes, 1965, screenprint in colors, 13½ h × 18⅛ w in (34 × 46 cm)

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[guy60660]

Corita Kent

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[strathshepard]

Corita Kent from Ordinary Things Will Be Signs For Us, a new book of her photography

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[hannahbaileysworld]

Diving into the female condition by writing poetry under a pseudonym, as well as using a phrase from sylvia Plath in my cyanotypes. Seeing what works when handwritten, inspired by Sister Corita Kent's handwriting and text together. I like the ghostliness here where the positive lifted off the page, gives a feeling of mystery and privacy to the reading of it.

#cyanotype #corita kent #handwriting

[garadinervi]

Sister Corita Kent, The Sure One, 1965 [Centre Pompidou, Paris. © Sister Corita Kent/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: © Georges Meguerditchian/Centre Pompidou]

#typography #corita kent #sister corita kent #georges meguerditchian #centre pompidou #1960s

[vannuysblvd]

The artist Corita Kent in her gallery

5126 Vineland Avenue, North Hollywood (via)

#corita kent #north hollywood

[loueale]

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[agirlnamedbone]

Sister Corita Kent // 1969

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[abelsonarchive]

#Corita Kent

[pros-ops-arkho]

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[underground211]

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

Corita Kent

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