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Power Up: The Work of Sister Corita
with Barbara Glauber

Corita Kent was the pop art nun. Combining headlines torn from magazine advertisements with handwritten song lyrics, poetry, and scripture, her vibrant silkscreen prints reflect her faith and the turbulent politics of the 1960s. Join us on the eve of what would have been her 100th birthday as we delve into her life and work, looking at some of the original source material, hearing more about her teaching, and seeing a wide range of her prolific output.

As theologian and friend Harvey Cox noted, “She could pass her hands over the commonest of the everyday, the superficial, the oh-so-ordinary, and make it a vehicle of the luminous, the only, and the hope-filled.”

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When:
Mon, November 19, 2018, 2025

Where:
The Rose Auditorium at Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square (at East 7th Street)
New York, NY 10003

The Herb Lubalin Lectures are recorded and made available here and on Vimeo with the generous support of Hoefler&Co.

About Barbara Glauber

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Barbara Glauber founded the New York-based design studio Heavy Meta in 1990. The studio focuses on projects for cultural institutions, collaborating with artists, curators, and editors to create publications, interdisciplinary exhibitions, information graphics, and identities. She has designed over 90 books for clients such as the Whitney Museum, Bard Graduate Center, the Guggenheim Museum, The New School, LACMA, Carnegie Museum of Art, Tang Museum, Morgan Library, Dartmouth College, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum. Her publications have been selected for the AIGA 50 Books 50 Covers 17 times and won numerous awards including the Alice Award for the most beautiful illustrated book. She has had the privilege of working on monographs for notable subjects such as Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent, Hilma af Klint, and Kehinde Wiley. Barbara has an MFA from CalArts, teaches design at Yale and Cooper Union, and is a co-curator of the Typographics Conference.