Corita Kent was an American Catholic nun, artist, and educator who lived and worked in Los Angeles and Boston.
She worked almost exclusively with silkscreen, or serigraphy, helping to establish it as a fine art medium. She developed innovative methods in screen printing, testing the bounds of the two-dimensional medium.
In recent years, Corita has gained increased recognition for her role in the Pop Art movement. As both a nun and a woman making art in the twentieth century, she was in many ways cast to the margins of the different movements she was a part of.
Corita’s art was her activism, and her spiritually-informed social commentary promoted love and tolerance.