Picture a college campus in Southern California in the 1960s. Here is what comes to mind for me.

I'm picturing kids with long hair, wearing flower crowns, playing music, protesting, and talking

about peace and love. Well, I'm currently looking at a real photo of a college campus in Southern California in 1964.

And it really does look like that.

This is Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles.

People think that they're protesting because they're holding these signs and walking and singing and all of the things that we would

think of in the late 60s as like California culture or counterculture. But there is one major

difference. A lot of people in this photo are wearing habits. So the headtoe black and white uniforms that nuns wear,

because a lot of people in this photo are nuns.

Yeah, this hotbed of California counterculture

was a school run by nuns.

The head of this parade was also a nun. Her name was Sister Mary Corita,

also known as Carita Kent. She was a teacher and an artist. Her work has this really

unique style. It's super colorful, super pop art with images from brands and advertisements and kind of enigmatic slogans,

a little bit of the sacred and a little bit of the profane.

And in the 1960s, Carita's art made her very famous.

She was on the cover of Newsweek.

She was truly the poster child for the nun going modern.

But it also got her into a lot of trouble. Yeah. She was truly the poster child for the nun going modern.

But it also got her into a lot of trouble.

In fact, the Catholic Church basically ended up shutting this entire scene down and forcing Corita to choose between her life as a nun and her life as an artist.

I'm Amanda McGowan and this is Atlas of Skira, a celebration of the world's strange,

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