We are pleased to announce the exhibition Corita Kent: The Sorcery of Images, opening September 26 at Marciano Art Foundation (MAF).
Corita Kent: The Sorcery of Images focuses on a little-seen part of Corita’s artistic practice: her archive of over fifteen thousand 35mm slides that she and her cohorts took between 1955 and 1968 while she was a beloved teacher in the art department at Immaculate Heart College. Presented as a three-screen digital slide projection that pays homage to Corita’s multi-screen slide show lectures, Corita Kent: The Sorcery of Images offers a unique look at this photographic archive, combining and recombining images in an exploration of her joyful and idiosyncratic way of seeing the world.
Also on view in the Marciano Art Foundation Library is Irregularity: Corita and Immaculate Heart College’s Rule Breaking Designs, a selection of materials from Corita Art Center’s archive, highlighting her years as a teacher at Immaculate Heart College. The presentation features the art department’s irreverent newsletter the Irregular Bulletin, edited by Corita’s mentor Sister Magdalen Mary, for which Corita served as the unofficial photographer.
Marciano Art Foundation will host our annual Corita Day celebration on November 22, 2025, and will collaborate on our ongoing Catching Sight series, a public program expanding on Corita’s photographic practice. For Catching Sight, artists are invited to select images from her archive to be shown as an analog slide projection. Los Angeles-based artist Cauleen Smith and musician Jeff Parker will conduct a hybrid slide presentation/performance on October 3, 2025 while New York-based artist Paul Pfeiffer will present his selection on December 11, 2025. Catching Sight is made possible by a grant from the Teiger Foundation.
Corita Kent: The Sorcery of Images is curated by MAF Director Hanneke Skerath and independent writer and curator Douglas Fogle for Marciano Art Foundation, in collaboration with Corita Art Center.
Entrance to the exhibition is free, and visitors must make an advanced time-entry reservation. Click here to reserve free tickets.