Corita Kent
1918 to 1986
American artist and teacher, a nun at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles until 1968. Screenprinted posters where the words are written by hand, cut from the page, or lifted from a supermarket sign, and the writing is the picture: three or four colors, one sheet, made in quantity so anyone could own one. She taught with ten Art Department Rules and sent students out to look at signs. Studied in ART 220 for the words page, for how much a poster can say with lettering alone, and for the screenprint the poster project is set up for.
Elsewhere
4- The collectionCorita Art Center, Los AngelesScreenprints from the 1950s to the 1980s, most of them words. Look at how the writing is drawn or cut, never set, and how few colors each one uses.
- How to Fight the Power with Joy, a Lesson From Corita KentEye on Design, AIGATheo Inglis on her posters, her classroom, and why she chose screenprint: it could, in her words, produce a quantity of original art for those who cannot afford to purchase high-priced art.
- Corita Kent: 2016 AIGA MedalistPrint magazineCallie Budrick's profile. She taught her students to find the novel and beautiful in magazines and supermarket packages, and the clue, as one print says, is in the signs.
- Art Department RulesCorita Art CenterThe ten rules from her classroom at Immaculate Heart. Rule 8: do not try to create and analyze at the same time. Read them before the thumbnail sprint.