Sister Corita

Corita Kent (Sister Mary Corita) 

Sister Corita

Philadelphia, USA: Pilgrim Press, 1968

36 × 25 cm.

Edition size unknown

"Sister Mary Corita Kent was a Sister of the Immaculate Heart for over 30 years; she was an innovative artist, teacher, and advocate for social justice. A champion of "festive involvement" and "joyful creativity", Sister Corita favored serigraphy and watercolors to create beautiful works of political, cultural, and religious pop art advocating love, peace and confronting injustice. 

In 1968 The Pilgrim Press published a Sister Corita box set, complete with over 30 prints of her art and a hardcover book on Sister Corita's life and her work. 

According to Sister Corita, to be active in this world and to enrich society, one must be connected to the arts. "Part of being in the world is to understand the language people are using and the experiments they are engaged in so that we from another way of life may see the same problems and be able to cooperate in the ongoing work. Part of understanding the language and experiments comes from knowing about art and artists." 

Sister Corita remained active in her artwork and active in social justice and advocacy until her death in 1986. Her art has been displayed in hundreds of galleries around the world and her legacy continues to live on."

- Pilgrim Press, 2019