Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic For years, the Corita Art Center (CAC) was confined to a narrow hallway running through the administrative offices of Los Angeles\u2019 Immaculate Heart High School \u2014 hung with Catholic nun turned pop artist Corita Kent\u2019s bright, playful, and earnest silkscreen prints. Kent\u2019s art mixes abstracted shapes, handwritten phrases, and blocky letters influenced by graphic design to express her visions of joy, faith and justice.On March 8, the CAC is reopening to the public with a dedicated space in LA\u2019s downtown Arts District. The new centre will host rotating exhibitions, programmes and workshops, and house a portion of the archive of more than 30,000 artworks and ephemera \u2014 the most extensive collection of Kent\u2019s work (the rest is housed off-site).\u201cCorita is an LA story,\u201d says CAC president and board chair Sheharazad Fleming. \u201cShow me another artist, educator, social justice advocate, nun, feminist \u2014 this way of choosing to be bold, to live a life that meets her own values\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009that\u2019s what LA is about.\u201d\u00a0It\u2019s hard to resist the enigma of Kent\u2019s life story: the nun in her black-and-white habit who became a pop-art pioneer (and a Newsweek cover star). But her arc makes sense as someone who sought a life of service and found it by dedicating herself to different causes: first to religious life, then the pursuit of art and education. Born in Iowa in 1918, Kent joined the Immaculate Heart of Mary order of nuns aged 18. She began teaching art at Immaculate Heart College in 1947. The following decades saw immense social change in the US, with the country moving from the post-second world war economic boom to the progressive civil rights movements and counterculture of the 1960s. Artistic tastes also shifted, from abstract expressionism to pop art, both of which interested Kent \u2014 especially after her encounter with Andy Warhol\u2019s first show of soup can paintings. But tensions grew between the archdiocese and Kent\u2019s liberal order. The conservative archbishop of Los Angeles was infuriated by Kent\u2019s 1964 print, which declared, \u201cMary Mother is the juiciest tomato of them all.\u201d In 1968, she sought dispensation from her vows.Show me another artist, educator, social justice advocate, nun, feminist \u2014 this way of choosing to be bold, to live a life that meets her own values. That\u2019s what LA is aboutKent\u2019s serigraphs combine eye-catching shapes and advert imagery (such as Wonder Bread\u2019s emblematic dots) with sacred texts: first the Bible, then the Bhagavad Gita and modern writers and thinkers: James Joyce, ee cummings, Gabriel Marcel. Many of her prints repeat the same phrases, emphasised in shifting forms and colours, like liturgical acclamations sung to different tunes. Her progressive politics also recur frequently, as in her arresting red, white and blue anti-Vietnam war print, \u201cstop the bombing\u201d (1967), whose text is a compassionate first-person plea. Love, in all its forms, is an enduring theme.\u00a0Kent died of liver cancer in 1986. She bequeathed her artwork and copyrights to the Immaculate Heart Community, an ecumenical group established in 1970 by former IHM sisters. The collection\u2019s transformation from a homespun organisation founded in 1997 into an independent non-profit is being effected with a $5mn seed grant from the IHC, which will be distributed over five years. It\u2019s a landmark achievement amid the CAC\u2019s years of efforts to widen Corita\u2019s name recognition as an artist (staff refer to her with the mononym) and bolster her legacy within the canon of 20th century art history.\u00a0There are several prominent New York-based foundations dedicated to women artists \u2014 Carolee Schneemann, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, to name a few \u2014 but the CAC will fill a chasm among Los Angeles\u2019s art institutions with a space dedicated solely to the estate of a woman artist. For instance, the Eames House (which recently survived the Palisades fire) reflects the twin legacies of husband-and-wife designers Ray and Charles Eames. The CAC\u2019s Fleming points out that among heterosexual artistic couples, women\u2019s legacies are entwined with their partners.\u00a0\u201cI have to ask, if Ray wasn\u2019t among \u2018Charles and Ray\u2019, would we know her as well?\u201d Fleming says. \u201cThese women deserve to be amplified as a part of our LA story, because they will inspire future generations of Angelenos.\u201d\u00a0The CAC\u2019s new third-floor space, a mix of exposed brick and white walls, has been decorated with murals riffing off Kent\u2019s works and created by students and faculty from the Los Angeles Trade-Technical College. The popular \u201cTen Rules\u201d for artistic practice that Kent co-authored with her students sets the tone for her own brand of offbeat creativity at the entrance (Rule 4: \u201cConsider everything an experiment\u201d). Upstairs, directional murals inspired by her serigraphs \u201cin\u201d (1964) and \u201cleft\u201d (1967) point the way to the gallery.\u00a0The inaugural exhibition, Heroes and Sheroes, features the series of works Kent made in 1968-9 of political figures she admired, including Cesar Chavez, Coretta Scott King, and Robert F Kennedy. The centre also facilitates loans and travelling exhibitions, with an emphasis on lending to rural US institutions to spread more awareness of Kent\u2019s work.\u00a0Following Kent\u2019s ethos and life\u2019s work as an educator, the CAC emphasises arts education with its mission of \u201cmaking [the collection] as accessible and available as widely as possible\u201d, CAC\u2019s executive director Nellie Scott says. The centre already has a two-year waiting list for school and group tours of the new space.\u00a0\u201cMy highest hope is that [for] the people that we serve in Los Angeles, whether they\u2019ve been to an art museum before or not, there\u2019s a very welcoming feeling\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.[to] let the space be a container for dialogue and curiosity and conversation and community gatherings,\u201d Scott says. \u201cThat\u2019s how we\u2019re envisioning this phase, as we\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009let it take shape and let the community help define what this looks like.\u201cPeople want her to be the \u2018pop art nun\u2019,\u201d Scott notes. \u201cBut she\u2019s so much more than that.\u201dOpens March 8, corita.orgFind out about our latest stories first \u2014 follow FT Weekend on Instagram and X, and sign up to receive the FT Weekend newsletter every Saturday morning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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