""In a sense, the whole world around the artist is his source, his sorting and relating powers are his sorcery, and the one isn't much good without the other. ... Anything can be a source, even a mistake. The sorcery or the thievery is the art of relating sources into a new solution." These were the insights of Corita Kent (1918-1986), an artist, teacher and activist who uniquely combined her passions for faith and politics in an exuberant and joyfully creative practice."
"Collecting fragments of the world with her camera for reuse at a later date, her eye documented the contemporary Los Angeles urban landscape of advertising and billboards, social events such as the effervescent and carnivalesque processions of the college' s Mary's Day celebrations, dolls and puppets, flowers, and many other often-overlooked moments of everyday wonder."
Corita Kent combined faith, politics, teaching, and art to create vibrant serigraphs that fused popular culture imagery with messages of love, faith, and social justice. She taught at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles from 1947 to 1968 and developed innovative approaches to typography and color. She compiled an archive of over fifteen thousand 35mm slides taken between 1955 and 1968 that documented advertising, billboards, campus processions, dolls, flowers, and everyday urban life. The archive functioned as a sourcebook for her prints and lectures. A projected multi-screen presentation assembles over 1,100 images to demonstrate photography's role as inspiration and source material.
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