Sister Corita Kent's (1918-1986) artistic expression came of age in the 1960s and worked prolifically until the time of her death. She entered the convent of the Immaculate Heart Community of Los Angeles and gained notoriety in the 1950s and 1960s with her iconoclastic approach to her spirituality and artistic practice.
Kent studied art at Immaculate Heart College and earned a master's degree in art history at University of Southern California, where she also learned printmaking and serigraphy. She appropriated signs, literary texts and phrases, and song lyrics from her everyday environment and used these elements in compositions that assumed new meanings
