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Bonus: The Corita Center offers free worksheets d rooted in the fundamentals of Corita's teachings and art.

Happy Corita Day!

https://store.corita.org/collections/downloads

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Happy Birthday Corita Kent! Also known as Sister Mary Corita, the acclaimed artist and teacher was born on this day in 1918. She used painting and calligraphy to convey ideas about peace, racial harmony, and social justice. Learn more about her and her role in the Immaculate Heart of Mary community with award-winning documentary Rebel Hearts.

Our Rebel Hearts Curriculum Guide features a hands-on Visual Arts lesson about The Power of Corita Kent’s Calligraphic Art. It's a great way to help students find their voice through multi-media artwork. For grades 9-12.

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/rebel-hearts/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Corita+Day&utm_content=Link

#CoritaKent #ArtEducation #ArtLessons #ArtTeacher #Education #Art #Homeschooling #Edutooters #OTD #BOTD #OnThisDay #BornOnThisDay #ArtHistory #CoritaDay

Black and white photo of Corita Kent in her days as Sister Mary Corita in a traditional Catholic nun's habit, holding up an analogue camera. Text says: Corita Kent. Teach with Film. Journeys in Film.

If you're a fan of Corita Kent's artwork, too, we have good news!

The Corita Center is giving away a free download of the poster created by Corita in 1976 for the Campaign for Human Development.

https://store.corita.org/collections/downloads/products/getwiththeaction-poster

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#Art #PopArt #ProtestArt #ActivistArt #Protest #Activistm #CoritaKent #SisterMaryCorita
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Colorful letters spell out: "If you want peace, work for Justice. Paul G."

Let's be real: this is a Corita Kent fan account. We unabashedly love her incredible protest art.

Which brings us to the question we're itching to ask you:

Who are *your* favorite protest artists? What is the activist art that fires up your heart and who are the artists behind it? (Any time period, anywhere in the world.)

We want to hear about the activist art in your heart!

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#CoritaKent #SisterMaryCorita #Art #ProtestArt #Protest #Activism #ActivistArt #PopArt

Serigraph (silk screen print) by Corita Kent entitled "for emergency use soft shoulder" from 1966.

The top 2/3 shows bold blue, red and yellow letters on a white background. The bottom 1/3 has white text over a red background. The text is a joyous riot of rightside-up and upside-down letters at different angles.

It say: "Get with the action. Wine that Rejoyces Man's Heart. Powerful Enough To Make a Different. For Emergency Use Soft Shoulder."

Artwork via the Corita Center.

August is American Artist Appreciation Month! We’re celebrating Corita Kent, also known as Sister Mary Corita! The acclaimed artist and teacher used painting and calligraphy to convey ideas about peace, racial harmony and social justice.

Lesson 3 The Power of Corita Kent’s Calligraphic Art in our free Rebel Hearts Curriculum Guide features a hands-on Visual Arts lesson suitable for grades 9-12 based on Sister Mary Corita’s artwork. It’s a powerful tool to help students find their voice through multi-media artwork.

You and your students can learn more about Sister Mary Corita / Corita Kent, her revolutionary protest art, and her time as a nun in the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary with award-winning documentary Rebel Hearts and the Rebel Hearts Curriculum Guide.

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/rebel-hearts/

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#Art #PopArt #ProtestArt #CoritaKent #WomenInArt #WomensArt #WomenArtists #Education #Edutooters #ArtEducation #VisualArts #Homeschooling #ArtActivities

Learn more about Corita Kent, also known as Sister Mary Corita, and her incredible artwork with Rebel Hearts.

Our Rebel Hearts lesson guide includes a hands-on art activity to help you and your students make your own Corita Kent-inspired activist art!

Like all of our resources, this lesson is free for everyone. Help yourself! 2/2

https://journeysinfilm.org/product/rebel-hearts/

#Protests #ProtestArt #CoritaKent #SisterMaryCorita #ArtLessons #ArtActivities #Education #Activism #CivicEngagement #Homeschooling @education @edutooters

The Corita Art center is giving away a beautiful downloadable poster!

"For a limited time only, Corita Art Center will offer a free download featuring this poster, created by Corita in 1976 for the Campaign for Human Development. In the spirit of love, hope, and justice, use this poster to champion change wherever you might be: carry it to a demonstration, display it in your window, or share via social media!" 1/2

https://store.corita.org/collections/downloads/products/getwiththeaction-poster

#GetWithTheAction #ActivistArt #ProtestArt #Art #Protests #Activism #CoritaKent #SisterMaryCorita @art

Multi-colored letters over white say: "If you want Peace Work for Justice. Paul 6".

At the bottom, small black text says: "Corita Kent, 1975, commissioned by Campaign for Human Development. #GetWithTheAction".

You and your students can explore Corita Kent's amazing activist art with award-winning documentary Rebel Hearts. Our free curriculum guide includes a hands-on visual arts activity that invites students to make their own multimedia calligraphic art inspired by Corita Kent. 2/2

https://journeysinfilm.org/product/rebel-hearts/

#CoritaKent #RebelHearts #Documentary #ArtActivity #ProtestArt #ActivistArt #Protests #Education #Homeschooling #ArtLesson @education @edutooters

In celebration of Loving Day, we're sharing "New Hope" by Corita Kent. This serigraph from 1966 is dedicated to Mildred and Richard Loving. At that time the Lovings were plaintiffs in the midst of the Supreme Court case that ultimately struck down states’ bans on interracial marriage the following year on June 12. 1/2

#LovingDay #EECummings #CoritaKent #WomenArtists #PopArt #Art #ProtestArt #SCOTUS #USHistory #Histodons @art @histodons

Corita Kent's 1966 serigraph titled "New Hope", which is dedicated to the Lovings, and contains silkscreened text of a poem by e e cummings in bright colors over white.

Printed text on the serigraph reads:
To the Lovings, / NEW HOPE / i love you much (most beautiful darling) more than anyone on earth and i like you better than everything in the sky-sunlight and singing welcome your coming although winter may be everywhere with such a silence and such a darkness no one can quite begin to guess (except my life) the true time of the year-and if what calls itself a world should have the luck to hear singing (or glimpse such sunlight as will leap higher than high through gayer than gayest someone's heart at your each nearness) everyone certainly would (my most beautiful darling) believe in nothing but love.
cummings

Was looking at Corita Kent's fabulous book:
Damn everything but the circus!

which was inspired by the e.e. cummings poem:

...damn everything that is grim, dull,
motionless, unrisking, inward turning,
damn everything that won't get into the
circle, that won't enjoy, that won't throw
its heart into the tension, surprise, fear
and delight of the circus, the round
world, the full existence...

https://www.paperposts.me/damn-everything-but-the-circus/

#paperposts #poetry #coritaKent #art #thursdayInspiration

screen printed bold text for book title page:
Damn Everything but the Circus
a lot of things put together
Corita Kent

Some Friday inspiration -- PBS Artbound's 20 minute documentary on artist, educator and social justice advocate Corita Kent:

https://www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2025/03/21/corita-kent-the-pop-art-nun/

#art #design #popart #coritakent

Corita Kent, handle with care, 1967
& Chevrolet newspaper ad, 1966

We’re celebrating Corita Art Center’s new home by sharing some of our latest Corita arrivals. This piece borrowed an advertising catchphrase and gave it a new (religious) meaning by enlarging and distorting the headline for a screen print.

#SisterCorita #CoritaKent #ScreenPrint #Typography #WomenDesigners #WomenArtists #WomensHistoryMonth

Print with green, red-orange, and orange ink. “HANDLE WITH CARE” in a bold stencil type style is in the center of a circle, with “SEE THE MAN WHO CAN SAVE YOU THE MOST” in a distorted sans serif overprinted on top.

At the left, in handwriting is “No time or else a life walking in the dark i met Christ Jesus my heart flopped over and lay still while he passed as close as I'm to you yes closer made of nothing except loneliness. e.e.c.”

Black-and-white reproduction of a newspaper ad with the headline, “SEE THE MAN WHO CAN SAVE YOU THE MOST: YOUR CHEVROLET DEALER” and some ad copy above a photograph of four cars.

“There is a bullet in my brain, behind my eyes, so that all I see is pain, I am in Vietnam …”

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/aug/26/hollywood-nun-sister-mary-corita-vietnam-watts-la

#art #politics #SisterMaryCorita #SisterCorita #CoritaKent

A seagull panted in the steamy heat this afternoon at Tenean Beach in Dorchester

#RainbowSwash #CoritaKent #Dorchester #Boston

A seagull perched on a stone wall with green grass in the foreground and the gas tank decorated with the Corita Kent Rainbow Swash artwork in the background

For American Artist Appreciation Month, we're celebrating Corita Kent! Also known as Sister Mary Corita, the acclaimed artist and teacher used painting and calligraphy to convey ideas about peace, racial harmony, and social justice. Learn more about her and her role in the Immaculate Heart of Mary community with award-winning documentary Rebel Hearts!!

#AmericanArtistAppreciationMonth #Art #CoritaKent #WomenArtists #PopArt #ProtestArt #Activism #SocialJustice #Peace #HumanRights #Education #Homeschooling @edutooters @homeschooling
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Black and white photo of Sister Mary Corita, aka Corita Kent, smiling brightly, with a sparkle in her eye.

1971 serigraph by Corita Kent. Colorful letters in bold brush strokes spell out "I Love You Very Much."

Corita Kent, Damn Everything But the Circus, 1970.
“I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.” —Albert Camus
#LetterformArchive #CoritaKent #AlbertCamus #IndependenceDay #July4

A graphic of an eye and letter E on a red background with handwritten text: “should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. Camus”

A book spread showing the the previous graphic on the recto page. On verso page is typeset text, black on white: “I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. Albert Camus”

Scan of the cover of the book containing this spread. Pink slab-serif text on a black background: “Damn Everything but the Circus / Corita Kent”

Naming women in the Letterform Archive collection, part 2: Brooklyn-based artist and writer Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Brazilian visual artist and poet Sylvia Amélia, and American artist, educator, and social justice advocate Corita Kent.
#LetterformArchive #NameAWoman #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInDesign #KameelahJananRasheed #SylviaAmelia #CoritaKent

Staring blankly, fingers hovering over the home row on my keyboard, I put the computer to sleep and grabbed a mailer from a stack of things I’ve picked up over time — books, zines, cards, Kickstarter projects…

I don’t normally open packages right away, forming a totem of inspiration to relish when most needed.

I grabbed a mailer to open Scott Boms’ lovely zine featuring Sister Corita Kent’s 10 Rules for Teachers and Students. It turned out to be just the right burst of color, energy and notions for the moment. Inside the inside cover flap was a (view)finder — a piece of paper with a rectangle cut out in which to reframe the world.

I’d seen a clip about this very thing on Austin Kleon’s blog a while back.

And these windows swirl around the periphery. Local artist Jon Flannery has variations of finders as business cards. My friend Drew tucks one in his sketchbooks and draws a grid on each page to fill them up with zoomed in details.

I wandered the house to frame a few visual tidbits, felt refreshed and finished up work tasks to close out the week.

Aformentioned tidbits

Unrelated: Today’s soundtrack is from a collaboration between Bruce Hornsby and yMusic. Some of the tracks are out there, but the lead song is a good amuse-bouche.

https://chrisglass.com/2024/03/01/you-have-to-look-at-the-world-in-small-pieces-at-a-time/

#CoritaKent #red #ScottBoms #viewfinder #yellow #zine

Corita Kent printed in halftone through a viewfinder

Corita Kent: “Doing and making are acts of hope, and as that hope grows, we stop feeling overwhelmed by the troubles of the world. We remember that we—as individuals and groups—can do something about their troubles.”

(this is in the preface to her co-written book “Learning by Heart” post-humously published in 1992)

#Doing #Maker #Making #CoritaKent

📘 Thoughts on Design by #PaulRand
📙 Extra Bold by Ellen Lupton et al.
📕 #CoritaKent's iconic creative manifesto
📘 … and many more.

A great collection of #Design #Books in this Humble Bundle/Chronicle Books collection. ⤵️

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/be-graphic-designer-visual-artist-chronicle-books-books

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