An artist, educator, and advocate for social justice also known as Sister Mary Corita, Kent is known for colorful silkscreen prints combining text and image—advertising slogans, song lyrics, biblical verses—that reflected her concerns about poverty, racism, and war. She taught in and later led the art department at Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles, where her work grew increasingly political throughout the 1960s. In 1968 she left her religious order, and her work evolved into a sparser, more introspective style for the rest of her career.