# @drawingcenter on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Bwuka88hM3D
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16044758-drawingcenter-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/177355931a.jpg
- **Posted:** 2019-04-26T17:46:29.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

## Caption

Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction.
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Corita Kent (1918 - 1986), or Sister Mary Kent, was a Catholic nun, activist, artist, and educator who taught as the head of the art department at Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles where she fostered a symbiotic relationship with her students by assigning creatively challenging projects that required serious dedication. Kent said of her classes: “You aren’t needed to be there to get good grades or to pass the course - you are needed to help make the class. So the structure is for you and you also are the structure; your particular gifts help shape it.” Kent would create her own art during school breaks when she would hunker down in the basement studio and work feverishly on screen prints and drawings that combined corporate logos, advertisements, religious text and excerpts from her favorite literature. In the 1960s, Kent’s work turned more political by addressing racism, injustice, and poverty. Kent’s activism lessened in the 1970s after she left the school and moved to Boston. The new city and her battle with cancer led to more introspective art. “Life is a succession of moments,” she said, “to live each one is to succeed.”
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#CoritaKent
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Image: Courtesy of Harvard Magazine, c. 1965.

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