Celebrating Sister Corita

February 1st, 2011 in Archive by The Kitchen Sisters1 Comment

The Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco will be opening up the E is for Everyone: Celebrating Sister Corita installment from February 4 – June 5, 2011. The exhibit marks the 25th anniversary of her life and influence as a West-Coast Pop artist and teacher.

MOCFA Events
Thursday, February 3, 6-8pm - Opening Night & Craft Bar
featuring a Corita-themed valentine project

Thursday, May 5, 6-8pm -Craft Bar: Corita Mash Up
a Corita silkscreen printing project.

Corita Kent was a teacher and artist who primarily used silkscreening and serigraphy to produce her prints. Kent’s artwork focused along the themes of love & peace, which were symbolic during the unrest of the 1960s and 70s.

Excerpt from the Exhibit
The exhibit showcases “many dimensions of Corita’s artistic practice as an iconoclastic artist, teacher and activist who was known to challenge stereotypes. Corita Kent, also known as Sister Mary Corita, revolutionized graphic design and created an art education system in which the classroom and its multiple surroundings became potent tools for learning and making.

West Coast Pop-Art predating Punk and computer graphics, Corita’s work is regarded today as inherently contemporary, bridging the divide between public service and self-expression, social practice and studio practice, craft and design. Not only do many established contemporary artists express direct evidence of Corita’s influence, but a new generation of makers are embracing Corita as a radical innovator for a wide range of socially-engaged creative practices, which help to expand our traditional definitions of craft and folk art.”

To read the rest of the exhibition’s description click here.

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Some time in the early 60′s I had gone to IHC for a look-around and met Sister Mary Corita in her full habit and barefoot sandals!

Years later, as a member of Immaculate Heart College’s last graduating class (1980, when I got an M.A.), I had the joy of seeing and hearing Corita Kent as our speaker. And on a wall here in my New York apartment I have one of her 1964 serigraphs. It reads:

The rights of all men are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened — JFK

One does not have to look for distress. It is screaming at you — S. Beckett