Radio Juxtapoz, ep 163: Nellie Scott on the Enduring and Reenergized Legacy of Corita Kent

The first thing I said to Nellie Scott, Executive Director of the Corita Art Center in downtown Los Angeles that preserves and promotes Corita Kent’s art, teaching, and passion for social justice, was that I wish we didn’t need to do this. I wish Corita Kent’s work had already done its work, that the world was free of oppression, racism, inequality, chaos and fear. Maybe Nellie and I could just talk about love and a butterfly, the upcoming showing of Kent’s work at Andrew Kreps and kaufmann repetto in NYC this month. But the times they are a’changing and oh how they stay the same. The new Corita Art Center opened in March and since, Pope Francis has passed, the structure of democracy…