The art of Corita Kent was such a wonderful part of my childhood and youth; it was a gift to us all. She was a true visionary, and everything about her was honest and fearless: her colors, her writings, her simple, aphoristic wisdom, and her subtle inversion of commercial advertising to create messages of peace and hope. She is one of those emblematic figures of the sixties and seventies who still speaks to us, and whose message of peace and justice, faith and love, hope and joy, are as relevant as ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8WyOmA4Q3k&feature=related (Aaron Rose and friends on Corita)
Never heard of her before now! She sounds very cool, like the nuns I associate with the counter culture of the
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