The Great Humans Series featuring Roxane Gay and Abbi Jacobson

On November 18, 2019, the Corita Art Center presented the inaugural event of The Great Humans Series, featuring Roxane Gay, bestselling author of Bad Feminist, and Abbi Jacobson, star and co-creator of Comedy Central’s hit series Broad City. Illustrator and author Lisa Congdon introduced the event. Great Humans is a contemporary reboot of the influential lecture series organized by late artist and educator Corita Kent in the 1960s.

During her life, Corita was a cultural icon: a pioneering artist, an outspoken advocate for social justice, and influential arts educator. Corita’s artwork reflected her concerns about poverty, racism, and war, while championing rebellious ideas about love, hope, and justice—messages which continue to resonate with audiences today.

While serving as head of the Immaculate Heart College’s art department in Los Angeles from 1964–1968, Corita launched "The Great Men Series” featuring leading artists, activists, and scholars, including Charles Eames, John Cage, Daniel Berrigan, Alfred Hitchcock, and Buckminster Fuller who called the evening, "one of the most fundamentally inspiring experiences of my life." Years later, Corita admitted of the title, “we would never call it that now,” and so the reboot is appropriately titled The Great Humans Series.

Great Humans was presented by the Corita Art Center, in partnership with Second Home and KCRW. We hope you will join us for the next event in the series, sure to be another inspiring and rebellious evening embodying Corita’s ethos of hope, love and justice. Sign up for the Corita Art Center newsletter at corita.org or follow us on social platforms @coritaartcenter so that you don't miss the announcement!

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