Was looking at Corita Kent's fabulous book:
Damn everything but the circus!
which was inspired by the e.e. cummings poem:
...damn everything that is grim, dull,
motionless, unrisking, inward turning,
damn everything that won't get into the
circle, that won't enjoy, that won't throw
its heart into the tension, surprise, fear
and delight of the circus, the round
world, the full existence...
Some Friday inspiration -- PBS Artbound's 20 minute documentary on artist, educator and social justice advocate Corita Kent:
https://www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2025/03/21/corita-kent-the-pop-art-nun/
Corita Kent, handle with care, 1967
& Chevrolet newspaper ad, 1966
We’re celebrating Corita Art Center’s new home by sharing some of our latest Corita arrivals. This piece borrowed an advertising catchphrase and gave it a new (religious) meaning by enlarging and distorting the headline for a screen print.
“There is a bullet in my brain, behind my eyes, so that all I see is pain, I am in Vietnam …”
Corita Kent, Damn Everything But the Circus, 1970.
“I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.” —Albert Camus
#LetterformArchive #CoritaKent #AlbertCamus #IndependenceDay #July4
Naming women in the Letterform Archive collection, part 2: Brooklyn-based artist and writer Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Brazilian visual artist and poet Sylvia Amélia, and American artist, educator, and social justice advocate Corita Kent.
#LetterformArchive #NameAWoman #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInDesign #KameelahJananRasheed #SylviaAmelia #CoritaKent
