Come Alive! The Spirited Art of Sister Corita brooklyn artist These books were working manuals

These books were working manuals and frequently annotated by readers with notes of herbal recipes/medicines or other uses not found in the printed text

organized by Julie Ault on the 20th anniversary of Kent's death

David Hammons

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Art and Objecthood provides an innovative

The resulting photographs

Come Alive! The Spirited Art of Sister Corita brooklyn artist These books were working manualsAt 18, Corita Kent (1918 86) entered the Roman Catholic order of Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles, where she taught art and eventually ran the art department. After more than 30 years, at the end of the 1960s, she left the order to devote herself to making her own work. Over a 35 year career she made watercolors, posters, books and banners and most of all, serigraphs in an accessible and dynamic style that appropriated techniques