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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 Andy Warhol, Corita Kent was an early adopter of serigraphy, or silk-screening — considered a 'lowly' sign painting technique until the boom in POP ART in the 1960s created a movement and world wide phenomena.

Sister Corita became a force in the art world and shared Warhol’s interest in iconography of advertising and, like Warhol, used symbols in art to form messaging that went deeper, "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.

Corita's 'idealism dovetailed with the zeitgeist of the times', the counterculture, the peace and environment movement, calling for personal and direct action. "Her work found its way into civil rights and Vietnam protests — and landed her on the cover of national magazines..."

Sister Mary Corita, Corita Kent, is often forgotten in these times but she was and is... “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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