The artist, nun, educator, and activist was born on this day, November 20th, in 1918!
Today we are flipping through Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent (N6537 .K435 A4 2013 Quarto) in celebration.
Corita Kent entered the Roman Catholic order of Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles in 1936, and took the name Sister Mary Corita. After recieving her MA in Art History, Corita became the head of the Art Department at Immaculate Heart College.
She worked almost exclusively with silkscreen, or serigraphy, helping to establish it as a fine art medium. Her artwork, with its messages of love and peace, was particularly popular during the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s.
Her classes at Immaculate Heart were an avant-garde mecca for prominent, ground-breaking artists and inventors, such as Alfred Hitchcock, John Cage, Saul Bass, Buckminster Fuller and Charles & Ray Eames.
Buckminster Fuller described his visit to the department as “among the most fundamentally inspiring experiences of my life.”
Also looking forward to the (forthcoming book) Art of Handwriting from @archivesofamericanart team - including curator Mary Savig who brought forward letters from artists like Sister Mary Corita Kent, as well as the equally alluring volunpeers who transcribed them!
Aw gee, thanks @smithsoniantranscriptioncenter! We are waiting for the book with bated breath as well! And it’s never a bad time to celebrate Sister Mary Corita Kent.
A second casting session for my film To Catch a Falling Knife is going down Friday from 1-4pm. I’d love it if you would share this with anyone that comes to mind!
Brief character descriptions are: John - mid-30s man, average height and build, pensive but steady Sam - 8yr old Child Kerry - early 30s woman, graceful, beautiful, strong Scotty - middle aged, skinny man with strong rural southern accent
“She possessed courage, wit, and deep insight. She had read much, and had so admirable a memory, that she never forgot any thing she had read. She had successfully applied herself to philosophy, medicine, history, and the liberal arts; and her poetry excelled the compositions of the best writers of her time. Besides this, she was a perfect beauty, and all her accomplishments were crowned by solid virtue.”
— The Frame Story from The Arabian Nights describes Audrey Assad
It is release week for LEVV and we are so so so excited to finally be putting out this record!
Seth and I recorded this last summer and we are so happy and proud to announce that it is available and ready to be heard. Our friend Mike Donehey described it on twitter today as ‘elf tears, the Police, and a dash of Enya running through fields.’ We decided that would be the perfect way to describe the project to you. :)
If you like it, please spread the word! One thing we really need some help with is our Thunderclap. We need at least 250 people to join the Thunderclap and donate just one tweet to help us spread the word about Strange Fire. If you join up, you get 10% off the EP! We are completely independent, DIY and self-managed, with no PR or agents to help us do this, so Thunderclap is a really cool way that we can all band together to send Strange Fire hurtling out into the world. Check it out and see if you’d like to be involved! (Again, you’re just donating one tweet of announcement. No other commitment required.)
I’m so incredibly proud of this work that my wife just set out into the world. I can’t shout from rooftops without upsetting the neighbors chickens, so please help me run tell dat!
The crisp, crystalline beauty that welcomes us into Darkness is immediately arresting and spellbinding. The alt pop song is graceful, serene, yet so full of stirring sentiment and emotion. Darkness comes from a duo based out of both Nashville and Los Angeles named LEVV, and they have my full attention as they take my breath away with their music. Audrey Assad’s voice is divinely angelic, while Darkness’ simmering guitar exude such burning passion within the atmospheric folds of the track’s electronic production. The duo previously released a four track EP together named Arrow. Let’s listen to the exquisitely brooding title track below, too. LEVV’s Arrow EP is a free download, here.
Three category 4 hurricanes in the Pacific; Kilo, Ignacio, and Jimena, imaged by GOES-West on August 31st, 2015. This is the first time in recorded history that three storms of this strength have occurred simultaneously in the Pacific Ocean.
