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Corita Kent, custodiat,1957, silkscreen print on paper, Collection Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles, California. Part of the University of Michigan Museum of Art exhibition of Corita Kent prints.

Univ. of Mich. art museum hosts Corita Kent prints

Catherine Saunders-Watson
Catherine Saunders-Watson

Corita Kent, custodiat,1957, silkscreen print on paper, Collection Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles, California. Part of the University of Michigan Museum of Art exhibition of Corita Kent prints.
Corita Kent, custodiat,1957, silkscreen print on paper, Collection Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Community, Los Angeles, California. Part of the University of Michigan Museum of Art exhibition of Corita Kent prints.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) – The University of Michigan Museum of Art is hosting an exhibition of prints from artist Corita Kent, whose works include the “Love” stamp that she designed for the U.S. Postal Service.

The traveling exhibit “Sister Corita: The Joyous Revolutionary” opened over the weekend and runs through Aug. 15 at the museum in Ann Arbor. The exhibit includes 44 prints, from early religious pieces to the popular stamp.

She was born Frances Kent in Fort Dodge, Iowa, was educated in Los Angeles and joined the sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1936, taking the name Sister Mary Corita. She left the order of nuns in 1968 and moved to Boston.

She died in 1986.

The exhibit is from Mid-America Arts Alliance’s ExhibitsUSA division and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Online: Corita Art Center: http://www.corita.org

University of Michigan Museum of Art: http://www.umma.umich.edu

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