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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Jan. 15, 1965
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ABSTRACT INSPIRATION—Using words within the artwork to convey a message, Sister Mary Corita, professor of art at Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles, now has her pop-art
silk screen prints on display in the Kansas Union. She uses the words of such people as Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, Martin Luther King, and the Bible.
Kansas Union Displays Pop-Art
Although at first glance appearing like an advertisement, the Pop-art now on display in the Union, has a message to tell, and this message is written within the artwork itself.
Under a disguise of bright colors and large letters, Sister Mary Corita (I.H.M.) includes within her silk screen prints messages of single inspiration, in which she quotes such people as e. e. cummings, Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, advertisements, Martin Luther King, poet Ugo Betti, and the Bible.
She ties in the overall design of the print with the message she is striving to relate, and titles it with one or several words printed with quite large, or quite small letters, depending on her purpose.
The one "man" show features two sizes of prints. The larger prints sell for $50, and the smaller prints for $10. They may be purchased through the Activities Director of the Union.
TWENTY-FIVE OF her silk screen prints, composed during 1964, are on display in the south lounge of the Union, where they will remain until the end of the semester.
Sister Mary Corita (I.H.M.) is a professor of art at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles, Calif. Her prints won international recognition soon after 1951 when she began to study serigraphy (silk screen painting) under the wife of a painter, Alfredo Martinez.
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Since then, she has participated in over 71 shows in museums, galleries and universities here and abroad and has won more than 35 prizes.
"Sister Mary Corita's appeal is sweetness without saccharine. Whimsical while instructive, her bold, beautifully executed designs and angular off-beat color point to an enormous talent which has responded full-measure to a unique environment." San Diego magazine said in a review of her exhibition.
HER WORK IS represented in the New York World's Fair by the Happy Beatitudes mural in the Vatican Pavilion and by an abstract in the Pavilion of American Interiors.
In her collection displayed on campus, she has taken advertising slogans, trademarks, and brand names used by Madison Avenue and has elevated them into spiritual messages, some serious and some in a light vein.
Sister Mary Corita was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa, in 1918, and entered the community of the Immaculate Heart Sisters in 1336. She has spent most of her life teaching art.
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Fire Destroys KSU Auditorium
An early morning fire today of undetermined origin gutted the University Auditorium at Kansas State University in Manhattan.
The fire was discovered at 1:20 a.m., and by 2 a.m. the roof had collapsed despite efforts of the KSU fire department and two units from the Manhattan fire department.
This morning KSU officials were discussing plans to find classroom, studio, practice room, and office space elsewhere on the campus, Rochat said.
"The building is a total loss." Carl Rochat, director of the KSU news office, said this morning. Rochat said the Auditorium had been built in 1904 at a cost of $40,000. It housed a 2,000 seat auditorium, two classrooms, three music studios, four music practice rooms, and the main offices of the department of music.
When the fire was discovered curtains on the stage were blazing. Firemen succeeded in extinguishing most of those flames, but by that time the fire had started in the ceiling above the stage. Falling debris kept the fire fighters from gaining control and fifty minutes after the discovery of the fire the roof collapsed dooming the building's wooden interior, Rochat said.
The only items saved from the fire were a few office supplies and a few musical instruments.
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