no. 80
SELECTED BYALISSA WALKERHIGHLY PRIZED, 1967DESIGNED BYSISTER MARY CORITA KENT
When I first moved to Los Angeles, I would take long runs high into the hills around my Hollywood house to learn the lay and splay of the land—to clear my head from the unsettling visual cacophony of this strange city, where beauty coexisted uncomfortably close with ugliness.
Almost every day I ran by the Immaculate Heart College, oblivious to its significance, until one day I noticed a tiny sign on the gate written in what looked like hastily dashed script: Corita.
For twenty years during the ’60s and ’70s, a Catholic nun named Sister Mary Corita Kent ran a tiny printmaking studio here that became an internationally recognized art institution, one visited ...
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