Google Doodle Celebrates Corita Kent, Feminist Nun Turned Artist

During the 1960s, a woman named Corita Kent transformed a tiny art department in a Hollywood Catholic school into a global center for design and printmaking. She was buddies with Buckminister Fuller and counted IBM as 

An exhibit of works by renowned artist Corita Kent is on display at the Malden Public Library in the Lower Gallery of the Converse Memorial Building. The works were donated in memory of longtime Malden resident Joan 

Sister Corita Kent was an artist and an educator who worked in both Los Angeles and Boston. She worked almost exclusively with silkscreen and her distinctive style helped to bring screen printing into the world of fine art.

Perhaps naively, I thought we'd make a beautiful large-format letterpress print of it, offer it up for people to buy, and donate all proceeds to the Corita Art Center — a seeming win-win. Alas, the folks at the Center were less than 

An exhibit of works by renowned artist Corita Kent is on display at the Malden Public Library in the Lower Gallery of the Converse Memorial Building. The works were donated in memory of longtime Malden resident Joan