May Special at the Corita Art Center
May has arrived with soft winds and blooming things. While the longer days of sunshine and sweet smelling blossoms undoubtedly put a spring in the step, Corita’s prints frequently remind us that without the winter, there could not be a spring. And, perhaps more importantly, by reminding ourselves that winter brings the gift of spring, we have the power to lift our own spirits regardless of the weather – literally and figuratively.
In a 1980 interview with Tom Cottle, the host of Eye to Eye on Boston public radio’s WGBH, Corita explained,:
I think everybody has a kind of pain and some people make beautiful things come out of it and some people make beautiful public things come out of it. I think there are a lot of people who are making beautiful things come out of it that are just not noticed. They’re done privately. I think they’re just as powerful in the whole framework of things. But I’ve been lately using feeling and using symbolism of flowers growing out of dark earth, spring coming out of winter. Ever since I’ve lived back here I’ve been absolutely struck by the spring, because I grew up in L.A. and you have spring all year as well as summer. But the fact that you’ve waited so long (and I really love winter so I’m not having an un-good time in winter) but yesterday my tree outside my window -- huge maple tree, it covers the whole window – began to show green and it had been sticks for such a long time and I think that may be the story.
So to enhance your own spring story, we offer you Corita’s 1980 print, crocuses for spring.
Regularly $600, this month it can be yours for $450 (25% discount).
crocuses for spring, 1980
catalog number 80-05; ed. 200
20” x 20”
Call 323-466-2157 ext 1021 to order.
EVENTS AND EXHIBITIONS
R(ad)ical Love: Sister Mary Corita
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Washington, DC
Through July 15
Open Saturday: 11am – 3pm
Corita Art Center
Los Angeles, CA
June 2, 2012
Somebody Had to Break the Rules
Spike Island
Bristol, UK
June 29 –August 26, 2012
