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Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This summer, the playful and powerful Pop art of Corita Kent comes to the Portland Art Museum. Kent, a nun widely known as Sister Corita, was an important artist, teacher, and activist who gained international fame in the 1960s for her vibrant, revolutionary screenprints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born Frances Elizabeth Kent in 1918 in Iowa, Kent grew up in Los Angeles; after high school, she joined the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and selected the name \u201cMary Corita\u201d when she took her vows. She began screenprinting in the 1950s, creating dense, expressionist work based on Biblical passages. By the 1960s, Kent had embraced L.A.\u2019s jumbled, chaotic cityscape as a source of inspiration and was incorporating text into her work. For Kent, the advertisements, street signs, and billboards were not, as some saw them, blights on the environment, but rather the equivalent of urban psalms for the modern world. She often appropriated advertising slogans, juxtaposing them with poetry, scripture, and song lyrics and thereby transforming the mundane into joyful messages of hope and calls to action. The effect is at once witty, inspiring, and subversive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1968, exhausted from her teaching schedule and the mounting tensions with the conservative archdiocese of Los Angeles, Kent left the city and the sisterhood, relocating to Boston. Her work underwent another decisive change as she turned to a more universal message of peace and personal growth; she died of cancer in Boston in 1986.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Corita Kent: Spiritual Pop<\/em> includes approximately 50 prints that show the full range of Kent\u2019s career, from her earliest experiments to her bold Pop icons and her final, quieter, inspirational work. The exhibition is drawn largely from the collection of the Portland Art Museum, with additional works graciously lent by the Corita Art Center, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organized by the Portland Art Museum and curated by Mary Weaver Chapin, Ph.D., Curator of Prints and Drawings<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Portland Prints<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This city is home to one of the most energetic, thriving, and innovative printmaking scenes in the country. From art schools, artist collectives, entrepreneurs, makers, and suppliers to collectors, galleries, and museums, Portland has become a creative hub for making prints.\u00a0 In conjunction with the current exhibitions featuring artists\u00a0Andy Warhol<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Corita Kent<\/a>, the Museum is partnering with the\u00a0Independent Publishing Resource Center<\/a>\u00a0(IPRC) to host a series of artist residencies, tours, and classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Works in the permanent collection<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Transcriptions<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

These transcriptions are meant to facilitate understanding of the texts used in Corita Kent\u2019s screenprints. Kent often used small portions of text from larger documents, frequently mingling them with passages from other sources and authors. Note that these transcriptions reflect the work as written by Kent, including her idiosyncratic punctuation and spelling, and may not be identical to the source material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Museum is conveniently located on the historic Park Blocks in the center of downtown Portland, which is easy to get around by public transit or on foot. The Portland Business Alliance has installed way-finding signs which direct you to the cultural district, where the Museum is located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parking<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There is generally plenty of street parking surrounding the Museum. These spaces range from 1 \u2013 4 hours and can be paid for using a credit card or the Parking Kitty app<\/a>. There are also surface parking lots, and parking garages within 1 \u2013 4 blocks of the Museum. The closest surface lot is located at SW Main St. between SW 10th Ave. and Park Ave, and there are dedicated accessible and van accessible spaces. This lot accepts credit card or the Reef app<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public transit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Getting to get to the Museum by public transportation is straightforward and economical. The bus and streetcar travel directly past the Museum, and the MAX light rail has a stop only four blocks away.\u00a0TriMet\u2019s Trip Planner<\/a>\u00a0gives you step-by-step travel directions from your location by bus, light rail, or streetcar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n