Corita Kent

Corita Kent or Sister Mary Corita Kent was born in Fort Dodge in 1918.  She took the name Sister Mary Corita in 1936 when she joined Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. She worked nearly entirely with silkscreen. She took classes at Otis and Chouinard Art Institute and then earned a BA from Immaculate Heart College. She worked in the Immaculate Heart Community and became the chair of the Immaculate Heart College art department. She Left the Sisters and devoted the rest of her life to creating artwork. She created many hundreds of posters, book covers and murals using silkscreen. She died in 1986 from cancer and her work can still be seen in art museums, which include The Whitney, The Museum of fine arts in Boston, the Metropolitan museum of art in New York and The Corita Art Center located on the campus of the Immaculate Heart High School.

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