The Art and Message of Sister Corita Kent
My work on a non-fiction manuscript side-winded into a discovery: Sister Corita Kent. Think 60s nun movies like Where Angels Go Trouble Follows! Where a young nun comes along and shakes things up. Sister Corita came up in the teaching order of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and taught art classes at the Immaculate Heart College for girls in Los Angeles in the 1950s and 60s. You might be familiar with her work—one of her designs graces one of the most popular stamps ever: Now I have never been big on word or typography art—especially when it deals with religious subject matter. It comes across as pedantic. It also comes across as abstract light. I remember many church bulletin covers back in the day at my United Methodist church employed this kind of art work. This was a time when “modern” felt like it was trying too hard. It is saying “I’m hip, I’m with it” borrowing the lingo of the kids, but not the political ...