The very first thing I mentioned to Nellie Scott, Government Director of the Corita Art Center in downtown Los Angeles that preserves and promotes Corita Kent’s artwork, instructing, and fervour for social justice, was that I want we did not want to do that. I want Corita Kent’s work had already performed its work, that the world was freed from oppression, racism, inequality, chaos and concern. Possibly Nellie and I may simply discuss love and a butterfly, the upcoming exhibiting of Kent’s work at Andrew Kreps and kaufmann repetto in NYC this month. However the occasions they’re a’altering and oh how they keep the identical. The brand new Corita Artwork Heart opened in March and since, Pope Francis has handed, the construction of democracy in America has been bent to a close to breaking level and artwork has an act of protest and social consciousness is struggling to search out its footing. So, it is time for Corita Kent as soon as once more.
On this dialog on the Radio Juxtapoz podcast produced by the Unibrow, Nellie Scott speaks of the founding of the Heart in 1997 and its affiliation with the Immaculate Coronary heart Neighborhood, how Corita Kent went from getting into the non secular order Immaculate Coronary heart of Mary at age 18, to championing civil rights, anti-war activism, and peace, via her distinctive aesthetic of printmaking. She left the order in 1968 and moved to Boston, the place she continued to make work. Her artwork, and her life, was dedicated to discovering a deep understanding of the human expertise, via instructing and creating. Corita left behind an ideal legacy that continues to reverberate – on the time of her loss of life in 1986, Corita had created virtually 800 serigraph editions and 1000’s of watercolours, alongside private and non-private commissions. From Boston to Los Angeles, Corita’s life is a very impressed story.
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The Unibrow’s Radio Juxtapoz podcast is hosted by Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 163 was recorded on the Corita Artwork Heart in Los Angeles in late April 2025. Video clip right here of Corita making within the studio by Thomas Conrad
