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Corita Kent, known as Sister Mary Corita, one of the most unlikely Pop Art phenomena of the 1960s and ’70s...

• http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/10/magazine/corita-kent-warhols-kindred-spirit-in-the-convent.html

Predating even Andy Warhol (who later became an influence on her work), Kent was an early adopter of serigraphy, or silk-screening — considered a sign painter’s lowly tool at the time. She shared Warhol’s interest in the iconography of advertising but used it to very different ends, lifting texts from advertisements and poems and deconstructing and juxtaposing them to form colorful typographic works to help people “use their whole selves better,” as she once said.

This idealism dovetailed with the zeitgeist — her work found its way into civil rights and Vietnam protests — and landed her on the cover of national magazines...

Mostly forgotten but... “a key figure in the history of American art.”

• http://www.npr.org/2015/01/08/375856633/a-nun-inspired-by-warhol-the-forgotten-pop-art-of-sister-corita-kent

• http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/10/magazine/corita-kent-warhols-kindred-spirit-in-the-convent.html#slideshow/100000003619696/100000003619726

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